Billy Bragg & Wilco - Walt Whitman's Niece

En el '98 salió el álbum Mermaid Avenue, colaboración entre Billy Bragg y la banda Wilco, unidos para difundir mediante música contemporánea viejas letras de canciones de nada más y nada menos que Woody Guthrie.

El disco planeo subirlo entero pronto, pero por mientras, quería poner únicamente una canción, mi favorita por el momento. Ahí les va.

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Walt Whitman's Niece

Last night or the night before that,

I won't say which night

A seaman friend of mine,

I'll not say which seaman,

Walked up to a big old building,

I won't say which building,

And would have not walked up the stairs,

not to say which stairs,

If there had not been two girls,

leaving out the names of those two girls.

I recall a door, a big long room,

I'll not tell which room,

I remember a deep blue rug,

But I can't say which rug,

A girl took down a book of poems,

not to say which book of poems,

And as she read, I lay my head,

and I can't tell which head,

Down in her lap, and I can mention which lap.

My seaman buddy and his girl moved off

after a couple of pages and there I was,

All night long, laying and listening

and forgetting the poems.

And as well as I could recall

or my seaman buddy could recollect,

My girl had told us that she was a niece,

of Walt Whitman, but not which niece,

And it takes a night and a girl

and a book of this kind

A long long time to find its way back.