From: cah@pdx.csd.mot.com (Chris Huey)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab
Subject: Re: REQ: CSN Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Portugese)
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:08:42 GMT
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Polar Humenn (polar@top.cis.syr.edu) wrote:
: A little while ago Glen Macon posted the chord and words to 
: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, but ended with the "do do do do ...".
: Does anyone have the words after that, it is in Portugese.
: 

I requested the same thing just over a year ago and got this fine response:
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	Well, after listening to the darn thing several dozen times, with
headphones, without headphones, with the bass turned down, with the bass
turned up, etc., etc., I've come up with the following.  I don't know if
this is correct, and in some cases, Still's pronunciation suggests
something a little different, but the different word or phrase makes for
ungrammatical syntax.  I'm assuming that his pronunciation is flawed and
that this is more or less what he's trying to sing.  The meaning makes
sense in the context of the song, too.  The last line is flawed--what I
have here makes no syntactic sense, although the word roots make a kind of
sense.

Querida, puedes ser ajuar,
Y ahora aqui, la bella vas a vivir.
Quiero solo que no vas de aqui,
Y que ti, se puedo me no vaya.

Spanish songs are hard for me to understand because they can cram a whole
bunch of syllables into a tiny quarter beat and not blink an eye.  Also,
unlike English, the main stress of a word doesn't have to fall on the down
beat, which means that the normal word stress gets altered.  The lyrics
here are sung like (if this notation makes any sense: the ---- is where he
holds a long note)...

"Querida" is sung like "keree-----da"  
"Y ahora aqui" is sung as three syllables: "Yorakee"
"Quiero solo" is the part the one poster to rec.music said was "corazon,"
which it isn't.  Stills sings it like "kiero so----lo"
Also, Stills sings "la bella" with the "ll" sounding like a normal, English
"l."  In Spanish, it would be pronounced more like an Engligh "y"

The words mean, roughly,...

Querida,  puedes  ser ajuar,
dear-one, you-can be  part-of-my-household

Y   ahora aqui, la  bella  vas      a  vivir.
And now   here, the beauty is-going to live
("the beauty"  meaning the woman, Judy Collins)

Quiero solo que  no    vas    de   aqui,
I-wish only that don't you-go from here

Y   que  ti, se puedo me no  vaya.
And that you ?  I-can me not go

The "se" in the last line is a 3rd-person reflexive pronoun.  The verb
"poder" is conjugated in 1st person, singular, the "me" is in the wrong
place, and "vaya" is subjunctive and makes no sense here.  I guess maybe
I've screwed up here.

Anyway, it was kind of fun trying to make sense of the words.  If I can
find a native speaker, maybe I'll ask him/her to give a listen and get back
to you.
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: Thanks,
: -Polar

You're welcome!

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cah@pdx.csd.mot.com                                                            
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