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It's My Life

This ain't a song for the broken-hearted
No silent prayer for the faith-departed
I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
You're gonna hear my voice
When I shout it out loud

[Chorus:]
It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

This is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina who never backed down
Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake
Luck ain't even lucky
Got to make your own breaks

[Chorus:]
It's my life
And it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life

Better stand tall when they're calling you out
Don't bend, don't break, baby, don't back down

[Chorus:]
It's my life
And it's now or never
'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive

[Chorus:]
It's my life
And it's now or never
'Cause I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life!

Casablanca, As Time Goes By

You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by

And when two lovers woo
They still say: "I love you"
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by

Moonlight and love songs - never out of date
Hearts full of passion - jealousy and hate
Woman needs man - and man must have his mate
That no one can deny

It’s still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by

We need the eggs!

After that it got pretty late, and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I... I realized what a terrific person she was, and... and how much fun it was just knowing her; and I... I, I thought of that old joke, I'know, the, this... this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; I'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs.

QUE SERA

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be
Will I be pretty, will I be rich
Here's what she said to me.

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

When I was young, I fell in love
I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead
Will we have rainbows, day after day
Here's what my sweetheart said.

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

Now I have children of my own
They ask their mother, what will I be
Will I be handsome, will I be rich
I tell them tenderly.

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

You've Got a Friend

When you’re down and troubled
and you need a helping hand
and nothing, whoa nothing is going right.
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest nights.

You just call out muy name
And you know wherever I am
I’ll come running, oh yeah baby
To see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
All you have to do is call
And I’ll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You’ve got a friend.

If the sky above you
Should turn dark and full clouds
And that old north wind should begin to blow.
Keep your head togheter and call my name out loud
And soon I will be knocking upon your door.

You just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I’ll come running to see you again
Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall
All you got to do is call
And I’ll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend?
People can be so cold.
They’ll hurt you and desert you
Well they’ll take your soul if you let them.

You just call out muy name
And you know wherever I am
I’ll come running to see you again
Oh babe, don’t you know that.
Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall
Hey now, all you’ve got to do is call
Lord. I’ll be there, yes I will

You’ve got a friend.
You’ve got a friend.

Ain’t it good to konw you’ve got a friend
Ain’t it good to konw you’ve got a friend

You’ve got a friend.
_________________
Cuando estés deprimido y atribulado,
necesites una mano que te ayude
y nada de nada salga bien.
Cierra tus ojos, piensa en mi
y pronto estaré allí
para alegrar incluso la más oscura de tus noches.

Solo tienes que pronunciar mi nombre
y sabes que dondequiera que esté
vendré corriendo, nena,
para verte de nuevo.
Invierno, primavera, verano u otoño,
todo lo que tienes que hacer es llamarme
y yo estaré allí.

Tienes un amigo.

Si por encima de ti, el cielo
se volviera oscuro y lleno de nubes
y empezara a soplar el viejo viento del norte,
mantén tu cabeza equilibrada, llámame fuerte
y pronto estaré llamando a tu puerta.

Solo tienes que pronunciar mi nombre
y sabes que dondequiera que esté
vendré corriendo a verte de nuevo.
Invierno, primavera, verano u otoño.
todo lo que tienes que hacer es llamarme
y yo estaré allí.

No es bueno saber que tienes un amigo?
La gente puede ser tan fria,
te lastimarán y abandonarán,
se llevarán tu alma si les dejas.

Solo tienes que pronunciar mi nombre
y sabes que dondequiera que esté
vendré corriendo para verte de nuevo.
Oh nena, tú esto ya lo sabes.
Invierno, primavera, verano u otoño.
Todo lo que tienes que hacer es llamarme.
Señor. Allí estaré, sí, allí estaré.

Tienes un amigo.
Tienes un amigo.

No es bueno saber que tienes un amigo?
No es bueno saber que tienes un amigo?

Tienes un amigo.

Yes Virginia...

Dear Editor,
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon

"Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood."

Yesterday

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All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe
In yesterday

Suddenly
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday
Came suddenly

Why she
Had to go I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said
Something wrong now I long
For yesterday

Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe
In yesterday

Why she
Had to go I don't know
She wouldn't say
I said
Something wrong now I long
For yesterday

Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
Oh, I believe
In yesterday

Bridge Over Troubled Water

puente sobre aguas turbulentas

«... y lo mesmo harán todos aquellos que los libros de verso quisieren volver en otra lengua: que, por mucho cuidado que pongan y habilidad que muestren, jamás llegarán al punto que ellos tienen en su primer nacimiento.» Miguel de Cervantes

Aunque las aguas no sean turbulentas, al oir la canción siempre ha estado este puente en mi imaginación. Deu ser per la sensació de lleugeresa que dóna la construcció, així com la lleugeresa i la suavitat de les paraules i la música que les porta: "I will lay me down".

When you're weary, feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all;
I'm on your side.
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found,

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.

When you're down and out,
when you're on the street,
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you.
I'll take your part.
When darkness comes
And pain is all around,

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.

Sail on silver girl, sail on by.
Your time has come to shine.
All your dreams are on their way.
See how they shine.
If you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind.

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.
________________

Quan estiguis cansada i et sentis poca cosa,
quan et vinguin les llàgrimes als ulls, jo te les eixugaré;
sóc al teu costat.
Quan les hores se't facin aspres
i no trobis amics,

com un pont sobre espesses aigües,
em deixaré anar.
...

Quan estiguis baixa de moral,
quan et trobis al carrer,
quan caigui el vespre massa dur,
et confortaré.
Em posaré al teu lloc.
Quan vingui la foscor
i el dolor sigui pertot,

com un pont...

Navega enllà, noia de plata, navega.
El teu moment ha vingut a brillar.
Tots els teus somnis són en el seu camí.
Mira com llueixen.
Si necessites un amic,
navegaré dret darrera teu.

Com un pont sobre espesses aigües,
jo t'alleujaré.
...

America's favourite poet

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work frequently used themes from rural life in New England, using the setting to examine complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes.

Robert Frost was native of California, born in San Francisco, and lived there until he was 11 years old. Frost's father was a good teacher, and later an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. The road not taken for young Robert might have been as a Californian editor rather than a New England poet.

He married with Elinor in Lawrence in 1895. They too were both qualified school teachers. Robert suffered exhaustion from teaching and the doctor prescribed fresh air. Grandfather Frost purchased a farm for the young couple in New Hampshire, shortly before his death. Frost worked on the farm for nine years and wrote many of the poems early in the mornings that would later become famous. His attempts at farming were not successful and Frost returned to education.

In 1912, Frost sailed with his family to Great Britain. His first book of poetry, was published the next year. Frost wrote some of his best work while in England.
As World War I began, Frost returned to America in 1915. He bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he launched a career of writing, teaching, and lecturing.

Frost was 86 when he spoke at the inauguration of President Kennedy on January 20, 1961. He died a little more than two years later, in Boston, on January 29, 1963.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

EL CAMI QUE NO VAIG TRIAR

Dos camins divergien en un bosc grogós
i em sabia greu no pode'ls agafar tots dos
i com que era un viatger, em vaig plantar
i me’n vaig mirar un tan lluny com vaig poder
cap on s’endinsava en la boscúria.

Llavors vaig agafar l’altre, perquè sí,
com si hagués fet l’elecció encertada,
perquè era espès i requeria ús;
malgrat això, el pas per l'altre
hauria comportat el mateix.

I tots dos jeien igual aquest matí,
amb les fulles no trepitjades.
I vaig deixar el primer per un altre dia!
Tot i saber que tot segueix endavant,
vaig dubtar si hauria hagut d’entornar-me’n.

Dec dir això amb un sospir
d’aquí fins a l’eternitat:
dos camins divergien en un bosc,
i jo vaig agafar el menys transitat;
i això va fer tota la diferència.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

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Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears

Ellis Island, located just south of Manhattan, was at one time the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States from January 1, 1892 until November 12, 1954. During this years more than twelve million people came through the island on their way into the United States.
The Ellis Island Immigrant Station was designed by architects Edward Lippincott Tilton and William Boring. They received a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for the building's design.

Ellis Island was the first stop for most immigrants from Europe.
Those with visible health problems or diseases were sent home or held in the island's hospital facilities for long periods of time. About 2 percent were denied admission to the U.S. and sent back to their countries of origin for reasons such as chronic contagious disease, criminal background, or insanity.

Today Ellis Island house is a museum. The Statue of Liberty, sometimes thought to be on Ellis Island because of its symbolism as a welcome to immigrants, is actually on Liberty Island, which is about 1/2 mile to the South.

Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears
On the first day of January
Eighteen Ninety-two
They Opened Ellis Island
And they let the people through.
And the first to cross the threshold
Of that Isle of hope and tears,
Was Annie Moore from Ireland
Who was only fifteen years.

CHORUS
Isle of hope, Isle of tears,
Isle of freedom, Isle of fears,
But it's not the Isle you left behind...
That Isle of hunger, Isle of pain,
Isle you'll never see again
But the Isle of home
Is always on your mind.

In her little bag she carried
All her past and history,
And her dreams for the future
In the land of liberty.
And courage is the passport
When your old world disappears
Cause there's no future in the past
When you're fifteen years.

CHORUS

When they closed down Ellis Island
In Nineteen Forty-three,
Seventeen million people
Had come there for sanctuary.
And in springtime when I came here
And stepped onto its piers,
I thought of how it must have been
When you're only fifteen years.

CHORUS

Strangers In The Night

Strangers in the night exchanging glances
Wondring in the night
What were the chances wed be sharing love
Before the night was through.

Something in your eyes was so inviting,
Something in you smile was so exciting,
Something in my heart,
Told me I must have you.

Strangers in the night, two lonely people
We were strangers in the night
Up to the moment
When we said our first hello.
Little did we know
Love was just a glance away,
A warm embracing dance away and -

Ever since that night weve been together.
Lovers at first sight, in love forever.
It turned out so right,
For strangers in the night.

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Midnight Train to Georgia

"Midnight Train to Georgia" is a 1973 number-one hit single by Gladys Knight & the Pips. It won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo.

The theme of the song is how romantic love can conquer differences in background. The boyfriend of the song's narrator is a failed musician who left his native Georgia to move to Los Angeles to become a "superstar, but he didn't get far". He decides to give up, and "go back to the life he once knew". Despite the fact that she's settled and secure in herself, the narrator decides to move to Georgia with him:

"And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine."
______________________

L.A. proved too much for the man,
So he's leaving the life he's come to know,
He said he's going back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world,
The world he left behind
Not so long ago.
He's leaving,
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's going back
To a simpler place and time.
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.
He kept dreaming
That someday he'd be a star.
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don't always come true.
So he pawned all his hopes
and he even sold his old car
Bought a one way ticket
To the life he once knew,
Oh yes he did,
He said he would
Be leaving
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's going back
To a simpler place and time.
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.
Go, gonna board, gonna board,
Gonna board the midnight train.

L.A. le ha enseñado demasiado;
así que, dejará la vida que vino a conocer,
dijo que va a volverse para encontrar
lo que dejó de su mundo,
el mundo que dejó atrás
no hace mucho.
Va a irse
en el tren de medianoche a Georgia,
se vuelve
hacia lugares y tiempos más simples.
Y yo estaré con él
en el tren de medianoche a Georgia.
Prefiero vivir en su mundo
que vivir sin él en el mío.
Él siguió soñando
que algún día sería una estrella.
Pero seguramente encontró el camino duro
en el que los sueños nunca se hacen realidad.
Así que, pagó con todas sus esperanzas
e incluso vendió su viejo coche
para comprar un billete de vuelta
hacia la vida que una vez conoció,
Sí, lo hizo,
dijo que quería
irse
en el tren de medianoche a Georgia,
Y va a volver para encontrar
lugares y tiempos más simples.
Y yo estaré con él
en el tren de medianoche a Georgia.
Prefiero vivir en su mundo
que vivir sin él en el mío.
Venga, subamos, subamos al tren de medianoche a Georgia.

Ray Charles, Georgia on my mind

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Georgia, Georgia,
The whole day through
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind

I'm say Georgia
Georgia
A song of you
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the pines

Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you

I said Georgia,
Ooh Georgia, no peace I find
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind

Other arms reach out to me
Other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you

Georgia,
Georgia,
No peace, no peace I find
Just this old, sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind

I said just an old sweet song,
Keeps Georgia on my mind



RAY CHARLES
(September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004)

"In music you just can't escape when something is beautiful," Ray Charles said.
Added the legendary singer/pianist/composer, "Like a good song, you can't get away from a good song. You have a good song, and it will still be beautiful, even when somebody with a bad voice sings it. I love the old writers, who wrote beautiful love songs. I came up on those kinds of songs. But I have just as much love for blues and jazz too.
Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany, Georgia on September 23, 1930.
Charles was not born blind - he lost his sight to undiagnosed glaucoma at age seven.
Starting his recording career in the late 1940's, Charles soon began experimenting, mixing genres. He began establishing a name for himself in clubs around the northwest, evolving his own music and singing style.
Charles reworded the gospel tune "Jesus is all the World to Me" adding deep church inflections to the secular rhythms of the nightclubs, and the world was never the same. That song is widely credited as being the first true "soul" record.
"You can't run away from yourself," Charles once said.
"What you are inside is what you are inside. I was raised in the church and was around blues and would hear all these musicians on the jukeboxes and then I would go to revival meetings on Sunday morning. So I would get both sides of music. A lot of people at the time thought it was sacrilegious but all I was doing was singing the way I felt."
Charles appeared in movies, such as "The Blues Brothers," and on television, and starred in commercials for Pepsi and California Raisins, among numerous others.
Blessed with one of the 20th century's most advanced musical minds, Charles became an American cultural icon decades ago.
He pioneered a new style and opened the door for many young performers to follow. Some of his biggest fans were the young music stars of today, who loved and admired his talent and independent spirit.
Charles once told an interviewer from USA Today, "Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me." And its also part of us.

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