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1/16/2018 9:58 pm

It's amazing how songs can create a mood or move a heart. I remember sitting on a swing with a lovely young woman in the garden of a tavern in Shepherdstown, WV and singing Cielito Lindo in Spanish to her (the most useful thing I ever learned in high school Spanish). A drunken college kid wandered up and struck up a conversation with her, pretty much ignoring me. Not surprising. She was closer to his age than mine. We were polite to him, both engaging him in conversation until he finally wandered away again. We smiled and faded immediately back into our mood.

Later we went inside and sat together. I went to the bar to get us a couple of beers. When I came back another guy was sitting in my chair chatting her up. He'd obviously been waiting for me to leave. I smiled and handed her a beer and sat in another chair. The other guy seemed to know her. He ignored me and kept pressing his case. After a very long time he gave up and left. We left soon afterward. He was standing by the exit and made a move to hug her. She deftly dodged him and slipped out the door that I was holding for her. We walked down the dimly-lit street, my arm around her, her head nestled against my chest. I think that was the day I knew she would always be mine.

Several years later she married another guy, but I wasn't wrong. No matter how incongruous a relationship seems, sometimes there are connections, bonds that not only survive differences in age, but even mortality itself.

The accompaniment in "A Word in Spanish" (typical of many of Elton's songs) made me think of another about the barrier of language or cultural separation: Nakita, watch?v=Tg-Q-Acv4qs about a lovely Soviet border guard (actress and model Anya Major in the video with Elton) and the millionaire rock star. It's incredible sometimes how certain songs can cross barriers that separate us, even if it's only in fantasy.



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