Voy a comenzar con una de las cosas que pretendo con esta nueva etapa, musica y letra.... y si puedo realizar una situación histórica de cuando se escribió el tema.....
Hoy me he encontrado con este tema gracias al programa Exaile que me va enlazando temas no se muy bien con que criterio, me refiero al tema que le da titulo al disco de The O'jays, Ship Ahoy.
Ship Ahoy, album del grupo de soul de Filadelfia The O'Jays. Publicado en 1973 y con gran exito crítico y comercial alcanzando el #1 en el Billboard "Black Albums" y el #11 en los "Pop Albums".
Como voy escribiendo y escuchando musica a la vez, os voy a poner otro tema de este disco, ambos temas con claras influencias Funk, chorrada, es Funk. La primera "For The Love of Money" en una grabacion de Soul Train (no completa) y la segunda un tema con claro mensaje social como es Ship Ahoy del que reproduzco la letra, y en el que podeis comprobar dos de las influencias del sonido Filadelfia de ese tiempo grandes arreglos "orquestales" y un profundo sonido Funk. Para los amantes del Hip Hop y concretamente la "Vieja Escuela" podeis comprobar como el primer tema es utilizado como sampler en el tema Step Off (Part 1) del grandisimo Grandmaster Flash, cuelgo un video (creo que mi primo Edu tiene ese disco del 85 en casa)
Letra:
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy, yeah
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy.
As far as your eye can see,
Men, women, and baby slaves
Coming to the land of Liberty,
Where life's design is already made.
So young and so strong
They're just waiting to be saved...
Lord, I'm so tired
And I know you're tired too,
Look over the horizon, see the sun
Shining down on you...
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy, yeah
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy. uh-huh
Can't you feel the motion of the ocean,
Can't you feel the cold wind blowing by?
There's so many fish in the sea,
We're just, we're just, we're just
We're just masts?
Riding on the waves...
the waves
we are
riding on the waves...
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy, now yeah
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
They're coming by the hundreds
Coming by the thousands, too
Look over the horizon, see the sun
Shining down on you...
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
My-yyy
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
We're just, we're just, we're just
We're just masts?
Riding on the waves...
the waves
we are
riding on the waves...
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy! Ship Ahoy!
Totin' that barge, lift that bail
Get a little something, gonna land in jail
Somebody bite the whip
I'm your master
And you're my slave
Uh-huh
And you're my slave
I'm your master
Look over there, what do you see
Tell him look over here, what do you see
¿Algo de lo que pasó en 1973?
Crisis Mundial del Petroleo
Golpe de Estado de Pinochet en Chile
Asesinato de Carrero Blanco
Nixon, firma la Paz en la Guerra de Vietnam Fuentes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_Ahoy_%28album%29
http://lyrics.wikia.com/The_O%27Jays:Ship_Ahoy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_Money
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_%281964%E2%80%931980%29
Espero que os haya gustado, se aceptan sugerencias.... y criticas destructivas
