MERRY BLUES

O que me conquistou de imediato nesta canção de Manu Chao foi aquele surpreendente ¡¡Atento!! inicial, pronunciado com a rispidez, a seriedade e a autoridade de um sargento na recruta – um assomo de autoridade que só pode ser uma paródia atentando ao teor do resto da letra da canção…

So many nites
With your shadow in my bed.
So many nites
Baby you whisper in my head.
So many nites
Sing along the Merry Blues.
So many nites
I told you once.
I told you twice.
The Merry blues
The Merry blues
I can not sleep
Haunted by your pretty body
I can not sleep
I want the world set on fire
So many nites
Can’t keep from goin down loose...
I told you once.
I told you twice.
The Merry blues
The Merry blues
Hello nadina do you do do do do do
I feel so happy when I see see see see you
You make me sing a like a douba doubad
I know you like it like a zoumbou zoumbou
Hello nadina do you do do do do do
I feel the moody like to picky picky you
I know you like it like a rub a dub stylee
I know you like a marijuana smokey
So many nites
Sing along the Merry Blues.
So many nites
Can’t keep from goin' down loose.
The Merry Blues.