Lyr Req: Granada (Mario Lanza)

Subject: Lyr Req: Granada by Mario Lanza
From: Mugwump
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 10:01 AM

I know this is a long shot on a mainly blues & folk message board. But there's this old geezer down the pub who keeps asking for the lyrics to GRANADA by Mario Lanza. He wants the English version if possible. |I've tried search engines and get a lot of references to the song but no lyrics.
Help pleeze

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Granada by Mario Lanza
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 10:19 AM

Frankie Lane version

several versions on the net, but whether they match the Mario Lanza eng.lang. version ??

Nigel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Granada by Mario Lanza
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 10:29 AM

Just to quote from the record sleeve (no lyrics) on the "Readers Digest: Mario Lanza's greatest hits (vol 1)"
Granada:
Like The Loveliest Night of The Year, the music of the pulse pounding Granada was created by a Mexican, Augustin Lara. The song burst upon the United States in 1932, but Mario Lanza's rousing delivery twenty years later in Because You're Mine helped to make it a hit all over again. Composer-lyricist Lara, dubbed the Mexican Irving Berlin, is Latin America's most prolific and successful songwriter, even though he can neither read nor write music. The English lyrics were written by Dorothy Dodd.


Nigel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Granada by Mario Lanza
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Mar 03 - 10:51 AM

Try Country Music Lyrics use scroll bar at right to go to page 101 of 379.
This page includes embeded chords.

Nigel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Granada by Mario Lanza
From: Ferrara
Date: 17 Mar 03 - 08:26 AM

In the Frankie Lane version, it should be "welcome the stars" and "habanera," with a tilde over the n, pronounced ha-ban-yair'-a.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Granada by Mario Lanza
From: Mugwump
Date: 18 Mar 03 - 09:42 AM

Nigel & Ferrara

Thank you very much for your help - The old fella was really pleased.

Subject: ADDPOP: Granada (Dorothy Dodd)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Mar 03 - 09:41 PM

GRANADA
(Dorothy Dodd - English Lyrics)

Granada, I'm falling under your spell,
And if you could speak, what a fascinating tale you would tell.
Of an age the world has long forgotten,
Of an age that weaves a silent magic in Granada today.

The dawn in the sky greets the day with a sigh for Granada.
For she can remember the splendor that once was Granada.
It still can be found in the hills all around as I wander along,
Entranced by the beauty before me,
Entranced by a land full of sunshine and flowers and song.

And when day is done and the sun starts to set in Granada,
I envy the blush of the snow-clad Sierra Nevada,
For soon it will welcome the stars
While a thousand guitars play a soft habañera.
The moonlit Granada will live again,
The glory of yesterday, romantic and gay.

English Lyrics by Dorothy Dodd
Music by Agustin Lara
Copyright 1932, by Peer International Corporation
source: The World's Greatest Fakebook (Warner)

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GRANADA

GRANADA

Granada, tierra soñada por mí, mi cantar se vuelve gitano cuando es para ti. Mi cantar, hecho de fantasía, mi cantar, flor de melancolía, que yo te vengo a dar. Granada, tierra ensangretada en tardes de toros, mujer que conserva el embrujo de los ojos moros. De sueño, rebelde, gitana cubierta de flores, y beso tu boca de grana, jugosa manzana que me habla de amores. Granada, manola, cantada en coplas preciosas, no tengo otra cosa que darte que un ramo de rosas, de rosas de suave fragrancia que le dieran marco a la Virgen morena. Granada, tu tierra está llena de lindas mujeres, de sangre y de sol.	Granada, land of my dreams, my song becomes like a gypsy song when I sing it for you. My song, made of fantasy, my song, flower of melancholy, which I have come to give to you. Granada, land bloodstained in bullfighting afternoons, women who have kept the enchantment of Moorish eyes. Rebel gypsy of my dreams covered in flowers, and I kiss your lips of scarlet like a juicy apple, that talks to me of love. Granada, praised in couplets of precious rhyme, I have nothing to give you but a bouquet of roses, softly fragrant roses that could make a frame for the black Virgin. Granada, land full of beautiful women, of blood and of sun.
text and music: Agustín Lara. translation: a.l.

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Source: tenorissimo.com

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Granada by Mario Lanza
From: Genie
Date: 19 Mar 03 - 01:36 PM

Gracias, Jose!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Granada by Mario Lanza
From: GUEST,Charles
Date: 20 Mar 03 - 09:45 AM

Blimey!!! Thanx everyone