Ken Burch
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Sat Jan-31-09 04:23 AM
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When they had the headline about the octuplet mom having "six more kids" was I the only one |
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who thought, for a moment, that that meant "since Tuesday"?
:wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:
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Sat Jan-31-09 09:14 AM
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1. I thought she had sextets as well... |
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I don't follow these multiple birthings very closely... And for you Ken... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R81UksWfCDY&feature=channel
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Ken Burch
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Sat Jan-31-09 09:28 AM
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2. Thanks for that. That's one of my favorite Jara songs |
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Edited on Sat Jan-31-09 09:30 AM by Ken Burch
I'll translate it here for those who don't know the Spanish:
"On my way to work I think of you through the streets of the town I think of you when I look at the faces through steamy windows not knowing who they are, where they go I think of you, my love of you, companero of my life and of the future of the bitter hours and the happiness of being able to live working at the beginning of a story without knowing the end
When the day's work is over when the evening comes lengthening its shadow over the roofs we have made and returning from our labor discussing among friends reasoning out things of this time and destiny I think of you, my love I think of you
When I come home you are there and we weave our dreams together working at the beginning of the story without knowing..."
Victor wrote that in honor of a young man who had been killed by the police on a strike picket. He imagined the thoughts the young man may have had in his head as he came home from work to his wife every day.
Of course, it because a kind of epitaph for Victor as well, after his murder in the 1973 coup(Which the people of Chile refer to as "our 9/11" because it had occurred on the same date as that later event.)
A film was made, after the coup, about Victor's life. In one part of the film, Joan Jara, Victor's widow, reads the English version of the lyrics as an intro to the recording of Victor singing the song.
Thanks for help keeping the songs alive.
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Sat Jan-31-09 10:21 AM
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3. Two of my favorites ... |
Ken Burch
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Sat Jan-31-09 10:45 PM
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4. El Derech De Vivir was about Vietnam(Victor was an internationalist, remember) |
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He actually recorded it with a folk-rock band called "Los Blobs".
"Plegaria un Labrador(Prayer To A Worker) was Victor's most famous song, and he used in it the structure of the "Our Father" to call the workers of Chile to action:
Stand up, look at the mountains Source of the wind, the sun, the water You, who change the course of rivers, Who, with the seed, sow the flight of your soul, Stand up, look at your hands, Give to your hand to your brother so you can grow. We'll go together, united by blood, Today is the day We can make the future.
Deliver us from the master who keeps us in misery. The kingdom of justice and equality come. Blow, like the wind blows the wild flowers of the mountain pass. Clean the barrel of my gun like fire They will be done at last on earth Give us your strength and courage to struggle. Blow, like the wind blows the wild flowers of the mountain pas Clean the barrel of my gun like fire
Stand up, look at your hands, Give to your hand to your brother so you can grow. We'll go together, united by blood, Now and in the hour of our death. Amen.
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