Story Behind The Song

I was at an outdoor festival talking with a music professor and I said what this festival needs is music for a string trio to be performed outdoors. I originally was inspired to write the music based on the tragedy of 9/11 but changed the song to The Gypsy Tango and it was recorded in Russia by members of the Nevsky String Quartet and performed in Concert in Germany. I had a vision about adapting this piece of classical music to a rock song in the world music genre.

Song Description

This is a world music type of song, sung in Spanish and English by Cuban-American Ivana Cespedes. In this song a woman visits a Gypsy camp and falls in love with the male violinist. She has to decide by dawn whether to run off with him and join the Gypsy

Lyrics

The Gypsy Tango for Soprano

(Intro - instrumental)

Dance,
Watch the Gypsy dance.
Makes me feel entranced, by his glance, full of fire.

Oh, what a passionate
Fire,
In his Gypsy eyes,
Makes me want to cry, want to die, in his glow.

Baila,
mira bailar el Gitano.
Cuando mueve me encanta,
la mirada
de fuego.

¡Que apasionados
ojos de fuego!
Quiero llorar,
y morir
en sus brazos.

Wouldn't it be very grand,
Joining his Gypsy band,
dancing across the land,
for a coin or two?

I want to be bold,
have a Gypsy soul.
Have him to hold,
me in his arms.

(Instrumental interlude)
Love, is what I want,
Is what I need, to complete, my destiny.
Time is not my friend,
why must it be my enemy?

Amar es vivir.
Es completar el sino de mi ser.
Vivir
memorias,
retratos de polvo
para el vejez.

Dawn.
Now's the time for me to choose.
Do I stay or go?
Do I win or lose?

Fate.
What does fate have in store for me?
What should I be?
Will I see any rest?
Will the melody,
of the Tango stay with me, for the rest of my life?


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