sábado, 28 de mayo de 2011

"The Revolution will not be Televised"

Aquí tedes o temazo "The Revolution will not be Televised", na súa versión definitiva de 1971, coa letra, e unha pequena entrevista con Gil Scott-Heron a comezos dos 90 contándonos un pouco máis deste himno...


The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
You will not be able to stay home, brother. 
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. 
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, 
Skip out for beer during commercials, 
Because the revolution will not be televised. 
 The revolution will not be televised. 
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox 
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions. 
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon 
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, 
General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat 
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised. 
 The revolution will not be brought to you 
by the Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie Woods 
and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia. 
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal. 
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs. 
The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner, 
because the revolution will not be televised, Brother. 
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May 
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run, 
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance. 
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 or report from 29 districts. 
The revolution will not be televised. 
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers in the instant replay. 
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being run 
out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process. 
There will be no slow motion or still life of 
Roy Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, 
Black and Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving 
For just the proper occasion. Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, 
and Hooterville Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, 
and women will not care if Dick finally gets down 
with Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people 
will be in the street looking for a brighter day. 
The revolution will not be televised. 
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news 
and no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists
 and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose. 
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb, 
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, 
Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth. 
The revolution will not be televised. 
 The revolution will not be right back after a message 
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people. 
You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom, 
a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl. 
The revolution will not go better with Coke. 
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. 
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat. 
 The revolution will not be televised, 
will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised. 
The revolution will be no re-run brothers; 
The revolution will be live.




No hay comentarios: