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Long Shot Appeal
« on: August 09, 2010, 01:50:22 AM »
I'm sticking my neck out again here on a long shot; and yes, it's a long shot.

At the end of the movie, "My Son My Son What Have Ye Done", the credits roll and the soundtrack plays a *HAUNTINGLY* beautiful Mexican ballad.  It's in Spanish and it's WONDERFUL; and I only managed to get about 40% of it.  My wife got *none* of it; and I was telling her how beautiful it was and she wants to know the words; and I would like to hear it again.

What I got:  It was something about a bandit with a long mustache and a leather jacket.  He went barefoot and the women adored him.  He got shot and died whilst visiting his loved one.  A romantic tragic ballad.  I also got that he carried six-gun pistols in his boots and evinced the persona of a vulture (or something about a vulture?  It was definitely the spanish word for vulture).  And that he was tall.  Is that enough to go on?

Long shot appeal:  does anybody know this ballad and has a viable English translation?  Can anybody get me in the right direction?  What a great ballad!


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Re: Long Shot Appeal
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2010, 03:11:42 AM »
That's a tough one. Best I could find is this link:
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/979
that at the end mentions 2 different singers on the soundtrack. One is a brazilian guy and the other is this Mexican woman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavela_Vargas

It doesn't list her song being in the movie, but it's wikipedia and likely out of date. I haven't heard the song so it might be easier for you to figure out which one it is! I'm guessing it's the lady.... You could go to youtube and put in her name and start listening till you recognize the song. Then just google the lyrics....
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Re: Long Shot Appeal
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2010, 09:05:13 AM »
Probably Chavela Vargas - she's fab (we have one or two of her CDs but probably without the song you're talking about).

From this link:

http://www.wuz.it/intervista-cinema/4916/werner-herzog-son-what-have-done-intervista-michael-shannon.html

(Google translation) 

In the movie there is more music than they have used in the past, and ultimately it creates a strange dynamic between the different moments. Beginning and end of the film we put a song of Mexican singer Chavela Vargas, then a beautiful song by Caetano Veloso, already used by Almodóvar, and then a song by Texan singer of the late twenties, George Washington Phillips.

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Re: Long Shot Appeal
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2010, 09:14:37 AM »
Thanks for these replies; I'll follow up with searches in youtube and etc with your suggestions...


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Re: Long Shot Appeal
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2010, 09:33:39 AM »
I read that most of the songs were from the album Requiem For A Dying Planet. There is a sample of each song here-".  Maybe you will find it there
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Re: Long Shot Appeal
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2010, 10:34:51 AM »
Found it! 

Here are the lyrics...
http://www.justsomelyrics.com/1573460/Chavela-Vargas-Gabino-Barrera-Lyrics

What a beautiful ballad.

Thanks to everybody who helped!


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