One of his most beautiful songs, and since I am currently working on a version for 2 guitars (and enjoying every second of it), I wanted to also share this with you.
The Saker
Original French language version:
Alternative Italian language version:
Thanks to this website: http://guitarejazzmanouche.com/grilles/perso/view/3019/ I found the chords:
though I personally prefer to harmonize it as so:
Bm7, %, Bbm6(#5), %, Am6, B7, E/Ab, %, Em/G, C#dim7, Bm7, Bm7/A, C#dim7, F#7(#5), Bm9, %
and the lyrics:
Non, je n´oublierai jamais la baie de Rio
La couleur du ciel, le long du Corcovado
La Rua Madureira, la rue que tu habitais
Je n´oublierai pas, pourtant je n´y suis jamais allé
Non, je n´oublierai jamais ce jour de juillet
Où je t´ai connue, où nous avons dû nous séparer
Pour si peu de temps, et nous avons marché sous la pluie
Je parlais d´amour, et toi, tu parlais de ton pays
Non, je n´oublierai pas la douceur de ton corps
Dans le taxi qui nous conduisait à l´aéroport
Tu t´es retournée pour me sourire, avant de monter
Dans une Caravelle qui n´est jamais arrivée
Non, je n´oublierai jamais le jour où j´ai lu
Ton nom, mal écrit, parmi tant d´autres noms inconnus
Sur la première page d´un journal brésilien
J´essayais de lire, et je n´y comprenais rien
Non, je n´oublierai jamais la baie de Rio
La couleur du ciel, le long du Corcovado
La Rua Madureira, la rue que tu habitais
Je n´oublierai pas, pourtant je n´y suis jamais allé
as for this helpful website http://lyricstranslate.com/en/la-rua-madureira-la-rua-madureira.html it even offered an English language translation:
When music was transforming, uplifting, joyous.
We wonder why the world is bereft of sanity, and overdosed on hate and terror.
The loss of the arts, especially music, to ideological vapidity and venal depravity, has sent the human race sliding to hell.
https://youtu.be/phTmOGuzd8g
Pelagya
https://youtu.be/SFJeHI2LVX4
Pelagya
https://youtu.be/3dGkd5S2x5U
Pelagya
[I apologize for my bad english]
I know there is no accounting for musical tastes and everyone can write everything. Ok, but anyway I would waste here a little bit of Mr.Saker blog’s file system…
Nino Ferrer… great choice for acoustic guitar. At those times (2nd half 60s – 1st half 70s) there were plenty of italian “guitar-in-hand” singers with tons of beautiful songs (one between dozens Lucio Battisti, ex. “Vendo casa” [selling my home]). Definitely another generation… because music and lyrics were more profound, poetical and mature. I think also at Fabrizio De Andre’, “Generale” [General (the military soldier)], remixed later very well by the rocker Vasco Rossi (only if you like when beautiful songs go “electric”… Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul … ex. think at Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on heaven’s door” remixed by Guns ‘n Roses).
But there are dozen of others italian singers, a very mine to discover for guitar fans. A lot of those sang also in french language (like Nino Ferrer) because of the tight cultural links between Italy and France, surely more tight than nowadays. That is why you will find also many french singers of those years singing double-versions in italian laguage.
Anyway, if you compel me, my one-shot choice goes to “La Boheme” by Charles Aznavour, both french and italian version.
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/charles_aznavour/la_boheme_chords_176990
Oops… mistake about my post above: “Generale” was by Francesco de Gregori, I beg your pardon.
In case you break a string, lets also not forget the classics:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NNFlAzVhSVw
[I apologize for my bad english]
As this world is “on the road to nowhere” and because I have red around messages disheartened, sometimes confused or angry, I would like to send you all a musical postcard of hope and courage, because the fear is the best allied of the rulers of this world (and their Boss… a type definitely not reliable). Do not overstimate the level of knowledge they have, the level of threats they can shake and the level of power they can show. Their show must go on… business as usual. Do not fall in the trap of hating each other: culture, arts and music are manifestations of our spirit and can gather together all of us. And let the thrill be gone, my friends!
1) B.B.King – “The thrill is gone”
(here performed with Gary Moore)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iUaevnP1LLg
[For fans of guitars: BBK played a Gibson ES-355 (Electric Spanish) based on ES-335/ES-345, semi-hollow, with variations on the bridge and pick-ups, nicknamed “Lucille”. It was a guitar innovative in those years, being a compromise with the solid-body ones (the “full” hollow-body ones are too prone to Larsen effect)].
2) Tinariwen – “Sastanaqqam” [I question you]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vACZA9dGvV4
Here are the words of this beautiful touareg song, I hope without errors.
“I Question You
Ténéré ,can you tell me
of anything better
Than to have your friends
and your mount,
And a brand new goatskin,
watertight,
To find your way
by the light
Of the four bright stars
of heaven,
To know how
to find water in
The unlikeliest of places,
And enlist the momentum
of the wind
To help you move forward.
Tell me, Ténéré,
how you and I
Can remain united,
with no hate for each other.
Ténéré, I can now admit that
I have travelled far through this wide world.
Ténéré, I give you my oath
That as long as I’m alive,
I will always come back to you.”
3) Estas Tonne – “The song of the golden dragon”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7gphiFVVtUI
This instrumental masterpiece is for fans of pure acoustic guitars.
ritimo meio bossa-nova mpb (música popular brasileira, samba-canção) falta a flauta transversa, para melhor toque.
eduardo
“Vaya Con Dios”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKfpB7KiueU