UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
ESCUELA NACIONAL PREPARATORIA
PLANTEL NO.6 “ANTONIO CASO”
STUDENTS
DANIEL CORREA CRUZ
IAN ERNESTO GARCÍA VARONA
GROUP: 412
TEACHER: MA.
MERCEDES CAMACHO REYES
SUBJECT: LENGUA
EXTRANJERA IV
“SPANISH BOMBS”
FROM THE CLASH
2012-2013
Preface.
This song is the first song in reates talking about the Spanish Civil War, and it is, also, one of the most famous songs of the band called “ The Clash”.
The Clash was a punk british band formed un 1976, the members of the band (at the moment of recording Spanish Bombs) were
- Joe Strummer – lead
vocals, rhythm guitar, piano.
- Mick Jones – lead guitar,
piano, reatest.
- Paul Simonon – bass guitar.
- Topper Headon – drums, percussions.
The song is from the album “London Calling” wich is
one of the reatest albums of history, it was
ranked at number eight on Rolling Stone’s list of The
500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003.
The main reason of the
aggressiveness and raw lyrics of this song (Spanish Bombs) and the other songs
in the album is because Joe Strummer, leader of the band, tried to represent
the feelings and thoughts of british middle class about certain themes.
Development.
Theoric
Base of “Spanish Bombs”.
Lyrics.
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Spanish songs in Andalucia,
the shooting sites in the days of 39.
Oh, please leave, the VENTANA open.
Federico Lorca is dead and gone:
bullet holes in the cemetery walls,
the black cars of the Guardia Civil.
Spanish bombs on the Costa Rica -
Im flying on in a DC-10 tonight.
Spanish bombs; yo te quiero infinito.
Yo te
quiero, oh mi corazón.
Spanish
bombs; yo te quiero infinito.
Yo te
quiero, oh mi corazón.
Spanish weeks in my disco casino;
the freedom fighters died upon the hill.
They sang the red flag,
they wore the black one -
but after they died, it was Mockingbird Hill.
Back home, the buses went up in flashes,
the Irish tomb was drenched in blood.
Spanish bombs shatter the hotels.
My señoritas rose was nipped in the bud.
Spanish bombs; yo te quiero infinito.
Yo te
quiero, oh mi corazón.
Spanish
bombs; yo te quiero infinito.
Yo te
quiero, oh mi corazón.
The hillsides ring with free the people -
or can I hear the echo from the days of 39
with trenches full of poets,
the ragged army, fixing bayonets to fight the
other line?
Spanish bombs rock the province;
Im hearing music from another time.
Spanish bombs on the Costa Brava;
Im flying in on a DC-10 tonight.
Spanish bombs; yo te quiero infinito.
Yo te
quiero, oh mi corazón.
Spanish
bombs; yo te quiero infinito.
Yo te
quiero, oh mi corazón,
oh mi
corazón,
oh mi
corazón.
Spanish songs in Andalucia:
mandolina,
oh mi corazón.
Spanish
songs in Granada, oh mi corazón,
oh mi
corazón,
oh mi corazón,
oh mi
corazón.
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The lyrics of the song "Spanish Bombs"
quote several historic events that will be name in this Theoric Base:
Spanish Bombs' lyrics says "The shooting sites
in the days of 39". During that time, Spain were in the middle of a Civil
War.
Spanish Bombs' lyrics quote the dead of Federico
Lorca in the next verse: "Federico Lorca is dead and gone". Federico
Lorca was a famous writer and he was killed during the Spanish Civil War in
1936.
In the third paragraph we can notice that the War
continuous with destruction and death.
After the second chorus it says "The hillsides
ring with "Free the people"". This shows the end of the Spanish
Civil War. This is confirmed at the next verse "Or can I hear the echo
from the days of 39?
And also, for not losing the main topic of the song
Spanish Bombs, Spain, we can appreciate the use of several words in spanish.
“The Clash” intention with "Spanish
Bombs".
The Clash is menting to share with the people they
feelings about the Spanish Civil War, all the deaths it costed, all the
destruction.
Also, it is for learning endings: people can know
history by listening songs like "Spanish Bombs", that tells us a
summary about the Civil War.
The Spanish Civil War is really important because:
The other countries watched the Spanish Civil War
as the facing of religion and atheism, the revolution and the fascism.
Militarily, for the URSS, Italy and Germany, Spain
was nothing more than a tasting ground of air warfare and tanks. Meanwhile for
England and France, the Spanish Civil War represented a new threat for the
international balance that was so difficult to achieved, which vanished some
months later in 1939 with the beginning of the Second World War. Diplomatically,
Spain got a lot of problems because almost all the countries expelled Spanish
ambassadors until the beginning of the Cold War with the help of USA.
Talking about the people, there were around 500,000
of dead people, which die because of hunger, diseases or in the field.
Conclusion.
This song covers a really important part of the
world history, although it wasn't written in times of the Civil War, it
represents very well the feeling about it.
This song also tells the people, (and take lots of
references) about how a lot of people over the world was affected by the
Spanish Civil War. The principal example of this is the case of the author,
journalist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 Ernest Hemingway
who was an active journalist during the Spanish Civil War, this inspired
him to write For Whom the Bell
Tolls, (also the book of what is believed to be the main inspiration for
The Clash in "Spanish Bombs").
This book, and the song were very popular in
English-speaken countries, and they were the main source of the middle class on
the Spanish Civil War, mainly the song "Spanish Bombs", because
it was launched at the end of the seventies in England and in the early
eighties in the U.S., when a punk environment, destructive and revolutionary
began to flourish in the minds of young people who would take the Clash and
other punk rock bands as banner.
Bibliography.
