Calypso

Album: Solitude Standing (1987)
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: SUZANNE VEGA
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 3

  • Miguel from Guadalajara, MexicoI love both songs (original and Luz Casal) and totally agree with Montse about the similarities through several lines of the lyrics (I'd say they were actually copied from Vega's song). But I I verfied and there is no credit for Vega, just David Summers (lead singer for the HOMBRES G spanish group) and Luz Casal.
  • Montse from Verdú, SpainAnother great Spanish songwriter, Luz Casal, wrote a song in Spanish about the same topic . The title of the song is "Te dejé marchar" ( I let you go ). You can find it in the album "V" ( released in 1989 ). Her voice is kind of rusty, poignant, but thoroughly wonderful.
  • Fred from Laurel, MdThis song and "Gypsy" from the same album, are two absolute gems from an otherwise merely great songwriter/performer! BTW, I also dig the completely different, but marvelous song of the same title by the late John Denver, about Jacques Cousteau's vessel, named after the sea nymph personified here. These are three songs I never tire of hearing. Could it be I'm a sucker for any song with the trigraph "yps" in the title? Is there a song out there somewhere with "apocalypse" in its name...?

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