Message For Christening

L a song "pure-gold" in English Joaquin Sabina always liked since I heard, but there are many things I did not understand the song, the references that do and those who mentioned, so I decided to investigate more in depth about it and study their letters in order to decipher what the song tells.

This publication may be the most daring, as it were, for me as not only will be interesting to readers who like Sabina, but for those who like Sabina and like this song ... it might be a terrible publication but in the comments and let me know ...

First I have to point out that the song dates back to the days of Franco's Spain and narrated everything in it belongs to the year 1947.

Then I leave with the lyrics of the song and the signs that will detail after it.

Academy of dressmaking,
chilblains, castor oil, gas generator
shoes topolino,
"Gender in the heat" (1) For beauties galleries

Piquer,
for including children with sore throat,
for phthisis chicken soup for foreign
Luis Miguel. (2)

To clean a carajillo partner,
two barriers for black marketeer,
for yellow patchwork
Corpus clarify the purple of the flags. (3) Third year

triumphant glitter,
the gentlemen closed "Sorrel"
and in a boat, Miguel de Molina, embarks
, little way overseas. (4) It had been

nationals had shaved
the "Sena" Cibeles, captive
and unarmed
the steam from the glass. (5)

When the Zambra, in "Gabriel" Sales
by the peloton early in the morning,
next day the papers spoke of Celia
of Pemán and Bayon . (6) Teaching

the clutches of Astrakhan,
resting on the bar "Chicote"
the "good pay" melts, with cleavage
the cream of the intelligentsia. (7)

perm, with Eva Peron bun,
"Parfait Amour, navy cardigan,
-" Master, I present to Lupe Sino,
leave it in good hands, matador "- (8)

And then, the reservao in "Gitanillos"
and then paella "Riscal"
and gentle afternoon of Saltillo,
a ring and a half glass (9).

- "Boy, up to the suite two anisette,
that, today, we lose the frogs" -
of pure and gold, Manolete,
block bull in the Plaza de Linares (10).
had
and past national
had shaved the "Sena" Cibeles, returned to their care

formal people. (11)

When the conga, in brothels, in San Blas
lay the platoon spoke
next day
roles of Gilda and Aviation Atleti. (12)

(1) The first stanza is a stark image of post-war Spain,
"sewing Academy": The girls of poor families, with "chilblains" produced by cold hands have learned to sew. Housewives trying to cure any illness with the miraculous "castor oil." "Gasifier" cooking fuel was oil and gas stoves were hell. In summer tents are put up a sign in the empty shop windows that read "genre in the heat, the food is kept inside because the heat was damaging.

(2) The Galleries Piquer sales were famous for antiques in Madrid, at the door of the foundling was left abandoned for sick children, which could not be fed and those who were born dishonest relationship: they were all called "foundlings" or "foundling" the miraculous chicken soup was used to combat tuberculosis and diseases caused by shortages, while the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin relates to the most desired foreign time: Ava Gardner, Maria Felix, Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, besides being married to the Bose, with whom he begat the singer Miguel Bosé.

(3) The "clean" was the boot and remains carajillo coffee mixed with a strong alcoholic drink, rum or brandy may be, it was called black marketeer who sold illegal things, such as snuff, he paid his favors cloudy with a pair of tickets to the bullfight, in the devout processions of Corpus Christi, there were many yellow color fabrics, as Sabina, mask the color purple flags, certainly religious, or persons who identify themselves as Republicans fear disguised purple flags with yellow rags.

(4) In 1942, three years after the war ended, the pretty rich once drank and played with the girls of Chestnut cabaret until the morning, it closed its doors, while that same year, pursued by intolerance and tired of abuse, Miguel de Molina sailed to Buenos Aires where he would find understanding and success.

(5) Well, the Nationalists (anti-Franco army) went and stayed, mocked the goddess Cibeles fountain, Madrid popular symbol par excellence.

(6) When the Tablao The Gabrieles closed his flamenco party, right in Chinatown, the peloton near the Plaza de Toros Las Ventas, came to take their sinister work, hours later, to quell the tragic news and cowardly , Celia Gámez invited to sing their melancholy tangos while José María Pemán to hit conference, trying to intellectualize the barbarism Pemán is the author of the national anthem of Spain and José Luis Bayon Herrera was a English filmmaker who went into exile in Argentina.

(7) Meanwhile, in the bartender Perico Chicote bar frequented by the friends of Luis Miguel, going crazy slapstick luxury for intellectuals of the Franco regime.

(8) The permanent hair Evita fashion and Parisian perfumes clouds irresistible, one night in 1943, Pastora Imperio Manolete introduced what was to be his girlfriend impossible: Lupe Sino.

(9) Then, in another words more local flamenco fashion, crowned by a good meal in a restaurant typical of prestige rather than face the matador Manolete a bull from the ranch of the widow of Saltillo and having given his mistress before a ring and a pair of socks.

(10) La Lupe and Manolete drink water with brandy and sugar (anisete), and buttons (braid) of the clothes were to release. Later, dressed in matador clothes in pure color (blue) and gold, the killer would face it, this August 28, 1947, in the Plaza de Linares, was to be his executioner, the bull named Islander.

(11) would normalize life ... the love story between Manolete and Lupe Sino pass into oblivion like her after the death of it, because the killer's family despised her for being a woman of the underworld and never accepted it.

(12) The peloton is now recovering forces in the neighborhood of San Blas, and well away from Sales, Franco squads ended the lives of hundreds of people. After his bloody mission, that day in 1947, was screened the movie (Gilda) of one of the friends of Luis Miguel, Rita Hayworth, while radiating a match Atletico Madrid at the Aviation merge step is to call or Atleti Atletico Aviation Aviation.

Now, you can hear the song and make an imaginary trip to the images of that time.