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A little ahead, but today's theme is, I think appropriately, songs about being exiled.
I'm going to kick things off with one which could also classify as a cover, Benjamin Zephaniah's (RIP) wonderful reinterpretation of the folk classic Tam Lyn.
My favourite video and lyrics from an exiled life:
Entitled ‘The People’, this roughly translates as :
There are travellers There are people who travel People who stay And people who are passing through There are people who are high And those who hit rock bottom People who sleep And Jean d'Ormessons There are winter people And there are divergent people People who hope And people from Abidjan There are people from the North, people from the South Sweet lives And rough lives
And there are happy people Sad lives sleeping outside And there are happy people And others who are making a fortune
There are high-class people And there are low-class people There are nice people, policemen Junkies and thugs People who cry, people who laugh Teddy Riners and Carla Brunis There are Jean Valjeans Who eat their sorrow Yes, real people who are pitiful People who love each other and gather Different people who resemble us
And there are happy people Sad lives sleeping outside And there are happy people And others who are making a fortune
There are night people There are morning people People who are bored Model agents There are people who annoy And people who relieve People who dream The life of other people And there are changing people And there are stable people Distressing and remarkable people People from the East People from the West People who go Others who stay
And there are happy people Sad lives sleeping outside And there are happy people And others who are making a fortune
And there are indignant people, indigent people Crazy people, merchants There are simple people, lonely people Lucky people and humble people There are lovers, leaders People who are struggling And good people There are gay people and sergeants And in all this
And in all this, us two And in all this, us two In all this, us two In all this, us two
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Friday earworm music thread on 16:56 - Mar 6 with 271 views
Not a classic, but given his recent passing appears to gone largely unnoticed, this one from Neil Sedaka is worth airing - could have been written today.
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