RE: Day 626: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: the sexy tango
LOL - at least today's prompt wasn't Yiddish tango. Break my heart!
It is said that composer Friedrich Schwarz (1895–1933) wrote this last melody when having to flee to France from the National Socialists, naming it in a letter from 23 July 1933 as a "Jüdischer Tango." Some of the other musicians who recorded this were subsequently killed in concentration camps. The text to the song reads in part, "Ich hab kein Heimatland. / Ich habe nichts auf dieser Welt. / Ich zieh von Land zu Land / Und bleibe da, wo’s mir gefällt." In translation, "I have no home land / I have none on this earth. / I roam from land to land / and remain there, were I can." Schwartz' work was recorded by Marek Weber and his Orchestra in 1933, the same year in which Weber found his way to the United States, where he became a well known band leader, the "Waltz King of Radio."
I have played this song over and over and over again, thinking empaths shouldn't do these things....
Omg, and Where is the Village... someone trot out that sexy tango...I was already pushing away the dark clouds of sad stories the world over, looking for some Disney endings!
Maybe this should have been my freewrite... there's the sexy tango, and there's other kinds of tango...
I never wallow in self pity for long, not when music like this exists, with stories like these:
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