Álbum Sometime In New York City de John Lennon - Canciones

Sometime In New York City

Reseña

"Some Time in New York City" es un álbum realizado a dúo entre John Lennon y Yoko Ono, contando con la colaboración por tercera ocasión del productor estadounidense Phil Spector. El álbum obtuvo peores críticas que los anteriores y sus ventas fueron también bastante más reducidas.

El álbum, lanzado en Estados Unidos en junio de 1972, fue grabado en noviembre de 1971, tras haberse mudado Lennon y Yoko a vivir a la ciudad de Nueva York un par de meses antes. Muy pronto comenzaron a relacionarse con activistas y comenzaron a manifestar sus protestas por algunas de las políticas del gobierno estadounidense. Por dicho motivo fueron investigados por el FBI y amenazados con la deportación por el presidente Richard Nixon.

Con este panorama, contrataron a la banda Elephant's Memory para acompañarles en las nuevas grabaciones que tenían previstas. De esa manera, nacen canciones como "Woman is the Nigger of the World", una crítica de Yoko Ono hacia el machismo vigente en la sociedad, asemejándolo al racismo supremacista de los blancos contra los negros.

"New York City" es un tema rockero que explica los primeros meses de Lennon en Estados Unidos, mientras que "John Sinclair" es un tema en contra del encarcelamiento de John Sinclair, poeta, escritor y activista político estadounidense.

El disco, considerado como muy radical por su alto contenido político, tuvo una repercusión mucho menor que "Imagine". Fue censurado en algunas emisoras y fuertemente criticado por el sector más conservador que gobernaba en Estados Unidos. Desde el propio gobierno se lanzó una campaña de investigación e las actividades de la pareja Lennon-Ono.

Al álbum se le acompañaba en su edición original un segundo disco que incluía parte de un concierto ofrecido el 15 de diciembre de 1969 en el Lyceum Ballroom de Londres, con la participación de Eric Clapton, George Harrison y Keith Moon. Igualmente, se incluían varios temas de Frank Zappa y The Mothers of Invention interpretadas durante un concierto en junio de 1971.

Disco 1

  1. Woman Is The Nigger Of The WorldVer letra

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    letra de Woman Is The Nigger Of The World

    Woman is the nigger of the world
    Yes she is...think about it
    Woman is the nigger of the world
    Think about it...do something about it

    We make her paint her face and dance
    If she won't be slave, we say that she don't love us
    If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man
    While putting her down we pretend that she is above us
    Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
    If you don't belive me take a look to the one you're with
    Woman is the slaves of the slaves
    Ah yeah...better screem about it
    We make her bear and raise our children
    And then we leave her flat for being a fat old mother hen
    We tell her home is the only place she would be
    Then we complain that she's too unworldly to be our friend
    Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
    If you don't belive me take a look to the one you're with
    Woman is the slaves of the slaves
    Yeah (think about it)

    We insult her everyday on TV
    And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
    When she's young we kill her will to be free
    While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb
    Woman is the nigger of the world...yes she is
    If you don't belive me take a look to the one you're with
    Woman is the slaves of the slaves
    Yes she is...if you belive me, you better screem about it.

    [Repeat:]
    We make her paint her face and dance
    We make her paint her face and dance
    We make her paint her face and dance

  2. Sisters, O SistersVer letra

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    letra de Sisters, O Sisters

    We lost our green land
    We lost our clean air
    We lost our true wisdom
    And we live in despair

    Sisters, O sisters
    Lets stand up right now
    It's never too late
    To start from the start

    O wisdom, O wisdom
    That's what we ask for
    And yes, my dear sisters
    We must learn to ask

    Wisdom, O wisdom
    That's what we ask for
    That's what we live for now

    Wisdom, O wisdom
    That's what we ask for
    That's what we live for now

    Sisters, O sisters
    Let's wake up right on
    It's never too late
    To shout from our hearts

    O freedom, O freedom
    That's what we fight for
    And yes, my dear sisters
    We must learn to fight

    Freedom, O freedom
    That's what we ask for
    That's what we live for now

    Freedom, O freedom
    That's what we ask for
    That's what we live for now

    O sisters, O sisters
    Let's give up no more
    It's never too late
    To build a new world

    O new world, O new world
    That's what we live for
    And yes, my dear sisters
    We must learn to live

    New world, O new world
    That's what we live for
    That's what we must now learn to build

    O new world, O new world
    That's what we live for
    That's what we must now learn to build

    New world, O new world
    That's what we live for
    That's what we must now learn to build

    New world, O new world
    That's what we live for
    That's what we must learn to build

  3. Attica StateVer letra

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    letra de Attica State

    What a waste of human power
    What a waste of human lives,
    shoot the prisioners in the towers
    Forthy-three poor widowed wives

    Media blames it on the prisioners,
    But the prisioners did not kill
    "Rockefeller pulled the trigger"
    That's what the people feel.

    Attica, Attica state, we're all mates with Attica state.

    Free the prisioners, free the judges
    Free all the prisioners everywhere,
    All they want is truth and justice
    All they need is love and care

    They all live in suffocation,
    Let's not wathc them die in sorrow,
    Now's the time for revolution,
    Give them all chance to grow.

    Attica state......

    Come together join the movement,
    Take a stand for human rights,
    Fear and hatred clouds our judgement,
    Free us all from endless night,

    Attica state....
    We are all mattes...
    We all live in......
    Attica, Attica, Attica state.

  4. Born In A PrisonVer letra

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    letra de Born In A Prison

    We are born in a prision,
    raised in a prision
    Send to a prision called school,

    We cry in a prision,
    We love in a prision,
    We live in a prision,
    like fools.

    Wood becomes a flut when
    it's loved,
    reach for your self and your
    battered mates.
    Mirror becomes a razor when
    it's broken,
    Look in a mirror and see
    your shattered fate.

    We live with no reason,
    Kicked around for no reason,
    Thrown out without reason
    like tools.

    Work in a prision
    And hate in aprision
    And die in a prision
    as a rule.

    We live in a prision
    Among judges and wardnes
    And wait for no reason or use
    We laugh in a prision,
    Go through all four seasons
    And die with no vision
    or truth

  5. New York CityVer letra

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    letra de New York City

    Standing on the corner
    Just me and yoko ono
    We was waiting for jerry to land
    Up come a man with the guitar
    in his hand
    Singing "have a marijuana if you can"
    His name was Davis Peel
    And we found that he was real
    He sangs"The pope smokes
    dope everyday"
    Up come a police man shoved
    us up the street
    Singin, "power to the
    people today!"

    NYC...NYC...NYC
    Que pasa Ny?...Que pasa NY?

    Well we went to max's
    Kansas City
    Got down the nitty gritty
    With the Elephants Memory
    Band
    Laid something down
    As the news spread around
    About the Plastic Ono
    Elephants Memory Band!
    Well we played some funky
    boogie
    And laid some tutti frutti
    Singing "Long tall sally's
    a man"
    Up come a preachman trying to be a teacher
    Singing "God's a red herring in grag!"

    NYC...NYC...NYC
    Que pasa Ny?...Que pasa NY?
    Well we did the Staten
    Island Ferry
    Making movies for the telly
    Played the fillmore and
    Apollo for freedom,
    Tried to shake our image
    Just a cycling through
    the village
    But found that we had left it
    back in london.
    Well nobody came to bug us,
    hustle ud or shove us
    so we decided to make it
    our home
    If the man wants to shove
    us out
    We gonna jump and shout
    The Statue of Liberty said,
    "come!"

    NYC...NYC...NYC
    Que pasa Ny?...Que pasa NY?

    NYC down in the village
    What a bad-ass city!
    Que pasa Ny?...Que pasa NY?

  6. Sunday Bloody SundayVer letra

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    letra de Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Well it was sunday
    bloody sunday
    When they shot the people there
    The crys of thirteen marty martyrs
    Filled the free derry air.
    Is there any one among you
    Dare to blame it on the kids?
    Not a soldier boy was
    bleeding

    When they nailed the
    coffin lidds!

    Sunday bloody sunday
    Bloody sunday's the day!

    You claim to be majority
    Well you know that it's a lie
    You're really a minority
    Oh this sweet emerald asle.
    When Stormont bans
    our marchers

    They've got a lot to learn
    Internment is no answer
    It's those mother's turn
    to burn!

    Sunday bloody sunday
    Bloody sunday's the day!

    You anglo pigs and scotties
    Sent to colonize the north
    You wave your bloody
    Union Jacks
    And you know what it's worth!
    How dare you hold on to ransom
    A people proud and free
    Keep ireland for the irish
    Put the english back to sea!

    Sunday bloody sunday
    Bloody sunday's the day!

    Yes it's always bloody sunday
    In the concentration camps
    Keep Falls and roads free forever
    From the bloody english hands

    Repatriate to britain
    All of you who call it home
    Leave ireland to the irish
    Not for London or for Rome!

    Sunday bloody sunday
    Bloody sunday's the day!

  7. The Luck Of The IrishVer letra

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    letra de The Luck Of The Irish

    If you had the luck of the Irish
    You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
    You should have the luck of the Irish
    And you'd wish you was English instead!

    A thousand years of torture and hunger
    Drove the people away from their land
    A land full of beauty and wonder
    Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn!

    If you could keep voices like flowers
    There'd be shamrock all over the world
    If you could drink dreams like Irish streams
    Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn

    In the 'Pool they told us the story
    How the English divided the land
    Of the pain, the death and the glory
    And the poets of auld Eireland

    If we could make chains with the morning dew
    The world would be like Galway Bay
    Let's walk over rainbows like leprechauns
    The world would be one big Blarney stone

    Why the hell are the English there anyway?
    As they kill with God on their side
    Blame it all on the kids the IRA
    As the bastards commit genocide! Aye! Aye! Genocide!

    If you had the luck of the Irish
    You'd be sorry and wish you was dead
    You should have the luck of the Irish
    And you'd wish you was English instead!
    Yes you'd wish you was English instead!

  8. John SinclairVer letra

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    letra de John Sinclair

    It ain't fair, John Sinclair
    In the stir of breathing air
    Won't you care for John Sinclair?
    In the stair of breathing air.
    Let him be, set him free
    Let him be like you and me.

    They give him ten for two
    What else can the judges do?
    Gotta, gotta.....gotta, set him free.

    If he had been a soldier man
    Shooting gooks in Vietnam
    If he was the CIA
    Selling dope and making hay
    He'd be free, they'd let him be
    Breatthing air, like you and me

    They gave me ten for two
    What more can the judges do?
    Gotta, gotta....gottta set him freee.

    Was he jailed for what he done?

    Representing everyone
    Free john now, if we can
    From the clutches oof the man
    Let him free, lift the lid
    Bring him to his wife and kids.
    They gave me ten for two

    What more can the bastards do?
    Gotta, gotta...gotta set him free...

  9. AngelaVer letra

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    letra de Angela

    Angela, they put you in
    prison
    Angela, they shot down
    your man
    Angela, you`re one of the
    millions of political
    prisioners in the world.

    Sister, there's wind that
    never dies
    Sister, we're breathing
    together
    Sister, our loves and hopes
    forever keep
    on moving oh so slowly
    in the world.

    Angela, can you hear the
    earth is turning?
    Angela, the world
    watches you.

    Angela, you soon will be
    returning to your sisters and
    brothers of the world.

    Sister, you're still a people
    teacher
    Sister, your word reaches far
    Sister, there's a million
    different races but we all
    share the same future
    in the world.

    They gave you sunshine
    They gave you sea
    They gave you everything but
    the jailhouse key.
    They gave you coffee
    They gave you tea
    They gave you everything
    but equality.

  10. We're All WaterVer letra

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    letra de We're All Water

    There may be not much
    difference
    Between Chairmon Mao and
    Richard Nixon
    If we strip them naked.

    There may be not much
    difference
    Between Marylin Monroe and
    Lenny Bruce
    If we check their coffins.

    There may be not much
    difference
    Between White House and and
    Hall of People
    If we count their windows.

    There may be not much
    difference
    Between Raquel Welch and
    Jerry Rubin
    If we hear their heartbeat.


    We are all water from
    different rivers
    That's why it's so easy to to meet
    We are all water in this vast,
    vast ocean
    Someday we'll evaporate
    together.

    There may be not much
    difference
    Between Eldridge Cleaver and
    Queen of England
    If we bottle their tears

    There may be not much
    difference
    Between Charles Manson and the Pope
    If we press their smile

    There may be not much
    difference
    Between Rockefeller and you
    If we hear you sing.

    There may be not much
    difference
    Between Rockefeller and you
    If we show our dreams

Disco 2

  1. Cold Turkey
  2. Don't Worry Kyoko
  3. Well (Baby Please Don't Go)
  4. Jamrag
  5. Scumbag
  6. Au

3 Comentarios de los usuarios

  1. MARCIAL: ME GUSTAN TODAS SUS CANCIONES
  2. rain: -descanse..en paz john lennon!xD
  3. juan: con este trabajo lennon lucha con la administracionde nixon que queria expulsalo ,lp imprescidible

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