In selecting these verses he has identified with the working people of Cuba and declared their virtues, which are universally espoused. Julian Orbón, who selected those four verses was very clever. These latter have been taken have been taken from disparate verses by the noted Cuban poet Marti. The only area we could ask for for enlightenment on are, perhaps, the significance of some of the ‘unofficial’ or ‘original’ verses, of which I know nothing, and the genesis and cultural significance of the ‘official’ verses. As far as I can see Jeremy, Gustavo and Brian have given good and scholarly answers to you question. The music is attributed to José Fernández Díaz.Īnd, the official lyrics are based on the first poem of Versos Sencillos - "Simple Verses" - written by Cuban poet José Martí and adapted by Julián Orbón. Guantanamera - meaning "girl from Guantánamo" - is a Cuban song, which has been successfully performed by numerous singers over the years. Spanish Lyrics to Guantanamera with English translation. The lyrics to the song, as written by José Fernández, are about a woman from Guantánamo, with whom he had a romantic relationship, and who eventually left him In 1966, a version by American vocal group The Sandpipers, based on an arrangement by Pete Seeger, became an international hit. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100." Guantanamera" ( Spanish: "from Guantánamo ", thus "the one from Guantánamo") is perhaps the best known Cuban song and that country's most noted patriotic song. The emotional ballad was the only single released from John’s 1975 studio record, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. “Not always, but a lot of the time, I guess you could even say that with this song, the crux of its meaning is sort of surrounded with visual props that are intended to help set the scene for the main event.” “For the most part, most of the things I write are an amalgam of several subjects or feelings that I then cut and paste to create one entity,” Taupin once stated. While the song fuses various narrative threads together, it all culminates in one sweeping arc. Rather than tell my fiancée I’d made a mistake, that was my brilliant plan to try and get out of the wedding.” He was in one of his big depressions.” Later, John opened up about the experience in a piece for The Guardian, writing, “I really had staged a completely ridiculous suicide bid that involved sticking my head in a gas oven. At the time he said it was because his music career wasn’t taking off as quickly as he hoped.
Woodrow/Hannon told Mirror in 2019 that she and Taupin “found him lying with his head in the gas oven with the window wide open.
John once tried to asphyxiate himself with a gas oven, the kitchen window was wide-open, rendering it fruitless. “I never realized the passin’ hours of evening showers / A slip noose hangin’ in my darkest dreams / I’m strangled by your haunted social scene,” he sings on the second verse. “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” also makes reference to John’s sheer desperation and suicide attempt. I mean, unbelievable things that were said. Bernie has probably said more negative things than Reg has. “It was Bernie that actually wrote the words. “In a way, I was disappointed,” she explained.
While Woodrow/Hannon does not harbor any resentment or ill-will, it is such lyrics that always struck a little bit icy for her. “You nearly had me roped and tied / Altar-bound, hypnotized, sweet freedom whispered in my ear.” “And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear (sugar bear) / You almost had your hooks in me, didn’t you, dear?” ponders John over glistening harmony work. The chorus lays John’s emotional cards all out on the table. I never at that time imagined he would be who he is today.” As he got more and more famous, I thought, ‘Wow.’ It was incredible. “I suppose I just carried on and put it down to an experience. My whole family was feeling for me, because they were expecting a wedding,” she told The Record. In 2010, Woodrow (married name Hannon) recounted the the break-up and its emotional toll. To make matters worse, Woodrow, John, and Taupin were all sharing a flat in London’s East End while Woodrow had been supporting the household, financially. Quite intoxicated, John came home later that night, around 4:30 am, and called the whole thing off. During a night of drinking with blues singer Long John Baldry and long-time collaborator Bernie Taupin, they convinced John not to go through with it.
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John knew things weren’t quite clicking in the relationship, going on two years at this point, and he didn’t know how to call off the upcoming nuptials. In the summer of 1970, Elton John nearly married then-secretary Linda Woodrow.
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