tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree

Reading again the text that Felicity bring us last day, and thinking and thinking about the sentence “tie a Yellow Ribbon round the old oak tree”, I found in the back of my mind, that this sentence belonged to a very famous song….a kind of Folk Song…

I repeat, and repeat, and repeat it and finally I was able to sing the song in its Spanish translation too.

I don’t’ know how no one at class could remember it…
It was very , but very famous, when I was a girl….then I realized that I was a girl long time ago….when all the people sang these song….( along the sixties or may be at the beginning of the seventies) you haven’t still born….My God how old am I !!!!!, but I can remember too a king of film with the tree full of yellow ribbons flying in the wind, when the bus passed….
Then at home I looking for it at the Google….and I found it of course, and there were a lot of entrances about it….
The was composed by Tony Orlando and Dawn, but it was sang by a lot of singers and complexes….
And if you enter in You Tube, it is possible to head the music too.
I am sure that if you heard the music someone of your will remember it.
It is a beautiful song, very romantic, and for this I copy here the letter for you to read.
In one of the entrances there is the literal translation too ,but the literal translation is impossible to sing , the Spanish translation to sing was something like “ pon alrededor del viejo roble aquel una cinta si tu pensante en mi….”



TIE A YELLOW RIBBON AROUND THE OLD OAK TREE

I’m coming home. I’ve done my time
Now I have got to know what is and isn’t mine
If you received my letter telling you I’d soon be free.

Then you will know just what to do
If you still want me
If you still want me

Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon ‘round the old oak tree

It’s been three long years
Do you still want me?
If I don’t see a yellow ribbon ‘ round the old oak tree
I will stay on the bus
Forget about us
Put the blame on me
If I don’t see a yellow ribbon round the old oak tress

Bus driver, please look for me
‘cause I couldn’t bear to see what I might see
I’m really still in prison
And my love, she holds the key
A simple yellow ribbon’s what I need to set me free
I wrote and told her please

Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree

It’s bees three long years
Do you still want me?
If I don’t see a ribbon round the old oak tree
I’ll stay on the bus
Forget about us
Put the blame on me
If I don’t see a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree

Now the whole damned bus is cheerin’
And I can’t believe I see
A hundred yellow ribbons round the old oak tree

I’m coming home.

I hope that you will enjoyed it

Have a good Easter…
Montserrat.