1968
1978 · Movieplay 17.1375/3 · Spain
- Artist
- Joaquín Sabina
- Title
- 1968
- Release
- Inventario
- Year
- 1978
- Label
- Movieplay # 17.1375/3
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Spain
- Genre
- Singer Songwriter · Iberian Music
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — European Songs
Spanish, Spain. "1968"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
Spanish: That May year lasted twelve months / You and I had just been born / And a very serious man died of disgust / On the front page of ABC / The carnations bit the magistrates / Paris was a neighborhood with an accordion / Marx forbade his children That they were late / To the sweet bonfire of the insurrection / Poetry went out to the streets / We recognized our faces / We knew that everything is possible / In 1968 / Jean Paul Sartre and Dylan sang in duet / Lenin and Rimbaud played the circle / The clocks They had a fever of 40 / There was talk of sex in the Renault company / Two and two never made four more / He suffered from bad love until De Gaulle / Poppies grew in the middle of Prague / As a red challenge to gray concrete / Poetry came out to The call / We recognized our faces / We knew that everything is possible / In 1968 / But we could not reinvent history / Death chewed gum in Vietnam / The tanks stepped on the flowers of Prague / In Mexico, they were beautiful / While Che was digging his tomb in Boli via / Massiel sang at Eurovision / And my father arrived at work on time / With a white collar and a brown suit / If now I find that friend / Leo in the back of his eyes / That the flowers have already dried / From 1968 / The paintings they went on strike in the museums / Paris was red, San Francisco blue / A homeless man was elected mayor / And the Sorbonne was in Kathmandu / Survive idiot / It's rock or death / Drink coke, sing this song / Let spring go to last…
Notes
Sabina's debut album. Arranged by Agustín Serrano; engineer Santiago Coello; producer Gustavo Ramudo; photography Enrique Saenz de San Pedro. Manufactured by Iberofon; printed by Moviegraf. Depósito Legal M.27386-1978. Song about the year 1968 (May '68 etc.). From Sabina's debut album 'Inventario', arranged by Agustín Serrano; Vietnam appears in a single line amid references to May 1968, Prague and Che Guevara.
About the artist
Spanish singer-songwriter whose debut album 'Inventario' was released in 1978.
Themes
Demonstration · Counter-Culture & Hippies · Bob Dylan · De Gaulle · Marx · Lenin · Che Guevara · Prague Spring
From the release Inventario