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  • This cheese stinks

  • @hailiamdigby what cheese do you eat mate this is lovely cheese lol

  • Err....Chris Evans - is he a rich DJ?

  • @Morglay very rich :)

  • It's a song by rich pop stars who feel guilty about their wealth!

    I think that if they'd washed their hair,the Gulfof Mexico would've had a worse pollution problem than the recent BP spill.

  • @Morglay hello can you just appreciate a nice piece of music or not/

  • Yep heard it on Chris Evans this morn.......not heard for years......beautiful.

  • Thumbs up if Chris Evans sent you here... :-)

  • @protier HAHA i was driving to a meeting, heard this on Chris Evans and just made me fill chilled and had to google it as I have only heard it at footy matches.

  • @protier too right, couldnt believe it.

  • While i was googling the meaning of guantanmera the guy exlained it, tripppp!

  • Que linda esta musica, que sentimiento, de esa musica ya no hay!!.

  • The words mean I am a truthfulman from the land of the palm trees an before dying I want to share these prons of my soul, my prons are soft green my prongs are all so flaming crimson.

    My prons are also a wounded fawn seeking refuge in the forest, the last verse says that with the poor people of the earth I want to share my fate the streams of the mountains please me more than the sea.

  • This reminds me of my time in Cuba

  • I've been looking all over for this song - I'm so glad I finally found it!

  • Realmente é uma linda canção.

    It really is a beautiful song.

    Realmente es una hermosa canción.

  • QUE LINDA CANCION VIVA CUBA

  • vivar a cuba

  • The song was written by Jose Marti, who was Cuban. It is indeed a land of palm trees, and the song is a favorite throughout Latin America.

  • My co-wroker & I always sing along with this song when we hear it on our local radio station. One day I asked him what the words were & he said..."The one time I met her".....and I said...oh, as I could not hear the words clearly. Then one day I called the radio station & got the name of the song & googled the lyrics and we laughed so hard when we realized what the lyrics really were....but the "One Ton Tomato" has that beat! Too funny!

  • Memories run wild and tears flow freely while listening to the song!!! As a teenager in the late 60s and early 70s(in the heat of the Cultural Revolution in neighboring mainland China, spilling over to Hong Kong), I took this song as a relieve, revelation, comforting source while facing and preparing for an unknown and probably hostile adult world. It has influenced and even constituted part of as person. It is beyond words-thankful, grateful are obviously insufficient. May be God is here!

  • @lovemedoification

    i think the group did visit taiwan and hong kong in the early 1970's (should be sometime in 1972 and 1973). they performed at the President Hotel in Taiwan. i missed it as it was simply too expensive for me (as a teenager ) to buy the ticket. at the same time, their other song that really touched me was the one, when will i return to cuba, a song very much about the time and the place to you refer to.

  • linda demais !!!

  • LAND OF THE PALM TREES WHAT THE HELL IS THAT DUDE TALKING ABOUT nice song tho'

  • @1957pinup he's clearly singing about his beautiful native land and how he loves it it just happens to be identified with palm trees

  • the movie last night brought me here.

  • Never ceases to amaze me how well they can sing without moving their lips! 

  • And I thought they were saying ONE TON OF MAYO....the car radio had only one speaker (mono) and it was a tube radio not even a transistor radio...ahhh but what fond memories of singing along at the top of our voices!!!

  • i used to sing this song in the car on the way to my preschool!!! :D i love it so much that my dad had to hide the CD before id ask him to put him on lol!

  • white chicks?

  • best ever version for this song

  • one ton 'a mari....?

  • one caramela....

  • another song from my days as a young boy. Used to play this over and over again on the radiogram we had. Beautiful days those...we were poor but had everything as far as life and living was concerned. Just simply loved them. wish I could relive them again..if anything to enjoy this good timeless music and maybe map my life differently to where it is now...LOL

  • @turnex1 Amen! Wonderful post! It was great listening to songs like Guantanmera or Come Saturday Morning by the Sandpipers as a young boy also.  You said it best. Those were just Beautiful Days with timeless beautiful music. We weren't strugging to have everything that someone could possibly have. Back then, we had each other, and we'd play card games and board games as a family and that was enough. Today, the family is scattered. Again, those were Beautiful days back then.

  • @Beautifulmusiclistnr wow...you reminded me of the board games we played. We must have played checkers, cards and snakes and ladders a million times never mind the tattered game boards or tattered cards!...we simply made our own for the checkers and waited patiently for the paint to dry so we could play using old bottle caps. Incredibly beautiful days we will NEVER have again no matter how long we live..Way too much technology these days of want it gotta have it now or else!!!!

  • @turnex1 Well said! We'll never have those good old less "technology" filled days again. I'm doing some things differently this year. On Sundays, nothing technology related not even TV. I'm not talking about not listening to the radio or the record player...yes, the record player! I think we all need a break from technology. I'm turning on the TV less. There's not much on it anyway. I wish I could turn on the radio and hear The Sandpipers again. I still have my board games from back then.

  • @turnex1 That final LOL is absolutely pointless -.-

  • @alunno181e And you know this because.....????

  • @turnex1 i 100% agree to your comment good old days

  • @turnex1 same here mate, erase all the mistakes. lol

  • THIS IS LIKE TWIST AND SHOUT FROM THE BEATLES

  • A perfect song for the closing scene in the saga of a romantic warrior-fool riding on horseback rattling, rusty, and forgotten into his last sunset.

  • Vaimoni diggaa tästä,niin minäkin.

  • glides on the sunrise like so many old vaquero songs loved by this heart broken Texan.

  • one of the prettiest songs ever composed. It is sunrise in New Mexico, again.

  • this BLOWS. try listening to some jose feliciano.

  • @wiredmanproductions +1 on that. Maybe its because Jose makes every song great or because this is incredibly lame. a million views? Sheesh.

  • UN WALTER ZENGA C'E SOLO UN WALTER ZENGA UN WALTER ZENGA

    CN69 AVANTI TUTTA

  • SENZA RUBARE, VINCIAMO SENZA RUBARE, SENZA RUBARE.

    FORZA MAGICA INTER

  • 1:47

    No! You just fucked it up!

  • It means a lady from Guantanamo. I guess that place used to have a different sort of fame

  • hey guys, what does "guantanamera" mean??

  • This song is used in a swedish recycle commercial :)

  • We listened to this in spanish today XP

  • VIVA CUBA CABRONES!!!!!!!!!

  • hayling122... absolutely right, from someone born in 51,it will never be that way again.

  • I was in Cuba in january and everywhere you could hear this lovely song. Brings back good memories of Cuba. Thank you for posting and greetings from Holland.

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  • classic that never fades

  • Never ever again will a song like this be a hit....when I hear the junk that passes for music today.

  • This is the 60's. Sad wev'e all got to get a little older, but would not have missed it for the world.

  • viva cacilda beker

  • João está na merda?

  • VIVA CUBA!

    VIVA LA UNION SOVIETICA !

  • still waiting for u poppi where are u, sincere man...longing to be one with u.

  • Music doesnt come this good anymore. Happy memories of a 60s childhood.

  • guantanamera ive got to go to the bathroom

  • gonna sing this song on music class nxt week

  • como los pobres de la tierra quiero jo mi coerpo echar....

  • My mother loves this song. I think I'll play it at her funeral.

  • childhood brought back to life..vivid and kinda sad cant seem to let go but at the same time impossible to repeat anew,physically speaking...thats music effect.

  • Yo estoy un estudiante de espanol, y tambien me gusta mucho la musica de Suramerica y Mexico. Una de mis canciones favoritos.

  • A most beautiful song.

  • Fine song! It came out a good few years ago and it was good then and it's good now. Nice to have the translation from the Spanish in the middle so we can understand it in English.

  • i like this...makes me happy..

  • beautiful,just beautiful!!!

  • no latin feeling these guys...

  • I remember hearing this on the radio back in the early 1990s, and thinking it went like this:

    One for the meadow

    There's only one for the meadow

    One for the meadow

    There's only one for the meadow

  • @TumbleTower I used to think they were saying : "One ton tomato" "I ate a one ton tomato"

  • @1234terian No it was One Ton of Aero

  • @1234terian I lol'd hard xD

  • @julio8492nd didn't ur mama teach u if u don't have something nice to say SHUT THE FRONT DOOR, I swear some peoples kids...shame on u, for talking smack about what people sing and share, and people that have fond memories of the song and time...try a new street try being nice for a change

  • @julio8492nd didn't ur mama teach u if u don't have something nice to say SHUT THE FRONT DOOR, I swear some peoples kids...shame on u, for talking smack about what people sing and share, and people that have fond memories of the song and time...try a new street try being nice for a change

  • @1234terian I thought I was the only 60's kid who interpreted the lyrics in precisely the same way!

  • @1234terian For me, it was "one ton of melon."

  • @lunaracial one ton of lol ;D

  • @lunaracial hahaha

  • @lunaracial yeh i seem to remember my dad singing that one lol

  • I used to think it was once on a medow!!

  • @1234terian hahhahahha...... FUNNY....

  • @1234terian Oh No!!! I will NEVER be able to listen to this song again without hearing ONE TON TOMATO. You nailed it.

  • @1234terian no its one ton of mayo, I eatta one ton of mayo, I know, I took Spanish

  • @1234terian LMAO!! I've become famous for screwing up lyrics over the years, but "one ton tomato" is truly classic--"epic" as the kids say... Forgive me if I claim it as my own next time I'm drunkenly reciting my messed-up lyrics at a party.

  • theres only one tony lockett

  • @tristanauspride - Interesting comment. Not many outside of Australia would know who Tony Lockett is. Yes, he was good - what is the connection between Guantanamera and Tony Lockett though? Cheers.

  • @paul72kate they used to sing that song for him

  • @paul72kate

    Fans sang it when he hung his boots up. one Tony Lockett, theres only one Tony Lockett etc

    It was a good rendition.

    And so is this one.

  • @cockhead1000 - Thanks for the clarification. Now I'm in the loop! Fancy not knowing that - clearly, I'm not a Victorian or even a big Sydney Swans fan. Hope that doesn't put me at the bottom of the pile. Cheers!

  • I grew up with this song......It was the first song I listen to that was not in my language and I still remember it till today............

  • huhuhuhu... phenomenal classic...

  • what does Guantanamera means? :O

  • @sebbeas123 Guantanamera is a Cuban woman from Guantanamo.

  • i love it

  • @saro832 wow

    

  • Does this have anything to do with that American prison in Cuba?

  • @aubutnut yeah, the one up your ass.

  • @aubutnut No, it has to do with a woman from Guantanamo, a guantanamera

  • This Is One Of The Most Beautiful Songs I've Ever Heard In all Of My Life. I Love it!

  • One of the greatest songs ever,thanks for sharing.

  • 032350ful

    que cancion tan bella y triste....maravillosos los sandpipers

  • This is a song, that touches my heart, then my very soul. By the Sandpipers.

  • One Ton Tomato. I need a one ton tomato.

  • one ton of marrow

  • ...

  • solo la Lazioooo.... a Roma solo la Laaaaziiiooooo

  • I can faintly remember being abused by my alcoholic mother to this song

  • @RatherCrunchyMuffin Lol man!

  • Fantastic song by The Sandpipers! Tragically, one doesn't hear songs of this quality on the radio and TV. Thanks for posting this wonderful song which is among my favorite compositions of the past!

  • @Artsartisan You are so right, I am with you! Love it

  • Brilliant!!always have been a fan of this wonderful group.Reminds me iof great holidays abroad.Thanks for posting.

  • @billboy508

    No idea if this is the best version og this great song but it is good enough to give me goose pimples listening tonight. And like you, it has memories of hols for me. In my case, walking down Las Ramblas in Barcelona.

  • Бесконечное удовольствие слушать эту Гвантанамеру! Завораживает и мелодия, и гитарное сопровождение!

  • A&M 806 (3:00[sic]) Beautiful song - one of my best musical memories of 1966.

    

  • at the start of the song i thought it was going to be a groovy version of hang on sloopy

  • Any other version pales compared to the Sandpipers I boldly say this without

    fear of the nay sayers if they don't agree with me it is to bad.

  • If this was culled from vinyl, that is one fantastic cartridge you've got there. i have a feeling it was. Thanks for upload and memories of a phenomenal song I have enjoyed since it was originally released.

  • Gorgeous.....melts my heart.

  • I just heard that song performed by drunk Polish physical workers xD It's even more epic;D

  • The greatest!

  • I love this song.

  • Is this the original since there's like 500 covers?

  • @sebbeas123 This song was written in 1895. (might be off a year or 2)

  • I always loved this song but the best time I heard it was whilst walking down Las Ramblas in Barcelona. Gorgeous song, amazing city.

  • Heard this song so many times over the years, but I can't get enough of it. BEAUTIFUL.

  • What a beautiful song! I love this song. This version ot the Sandpipers is what I really like and love to hear always. A very old song but beautiful.

  • Great song, amigos!!!!

  • @centralparocker

    Thanks for the informations. I love this song and this version is so moving... Feels like crying...

    Such timeless song...

  • A song of beauty and the resilience of the "better part" of the human soul. The better known "official" lyrics are based on the first stanza of the first poem of the collection "Versos Sencillos" ("Simple Verses") by Cuban poet and independence hero José Martí, as adapted by Julián Orbón. Given Martí's significance to the Cuban people, the use of his poem in the song virtually elevated it to unofficial anthem status in the country.

  • @BONOBOS48 taken from Wikipedia?!?

  • Indeed.

  • I'm not sure why I got severely depressed during my college years when I listened to this song specifically when the singer stated. "I am a truthful man from the land of palm trees..."

  • @brotherjohn25 Because you felt guilty, as you were lying to chicks left and right to try to get 'em into bed.

  • No problem,LukasKarman. I think Sukiyaki was actually called "My first night without you" originally,but the record company wanted to give it a Japanese sounding title for Americans that would be memorable.

  • One tonn of melon...

  • Guantanamera

    //I am a truthful man from the land of the palm trees//

    And before dying i want to share this verses of my soul

    //My verses are soft green, my verses are like flaming carmine//

    My verse is like a wounded deer, seeking refuge in the forest

    Guantanamera

    //With the poor people of this earth i want to share my fate//

    The streams of the mountain pleases me more than the sea

    Guantanamera..

    For more verses look the "Versos Sencillos" of José Martí.

  • @Necktor

    Appreciate your translation. Makes the song even more beautiful to me. I will look for José Marti.

    Thanks!

  • i am an honest man from where the grow pal trees........ BEATIFULL

  • Can someone translate in English please

  • Wow, what a beautiful song... goes right through my heart. Don't know what they are saying though as I'm from the tiny island of Mauritius in the indian Ocean. Doesn't matter though, definitely one of my favourites. I saw on another video the cuban women dancing to this song and the long skirt that they wear is exactly the same as our sega dancers in Mauritius. Our sega top however is shorter and a bit more revealing. Even the flower they have on their hair are the same. How fascinating. :)

  • quanta beleza numa canção só.Saudades dos anos 60.Parabéns ,Pra mim é o melhor arranjo dessa música. Onofre Aguilar

  • Wow, what a beautiful song... goes right through my heart. Don't know what they are saying though as I'm from the tiny island of Mauritius in the indian Ocean. Doesn't matter though, definitely one of my favourites. I saw on another video the cuban women dancing to this song and the long skirt that they wear is exactly the same as our sega dancers in Mauritius. Our sega top however is shorter and a bit more revealing. Even the flower they have on their hair are the same. How fascinating. :)

  • There's only uno Neil Lennon.

  • svi operateri su trenutno zauzeti.. molimo sacekajte

  • Will remain one of my evergreen songs of all time. What a fabulous song.

  • I agree with you above, wonderful song...

  • Guantanamera Guantanamera Guantanamera Guantanamera Guantanamera Guantanamera adogooo

  • very good

  • Why wasn't I born with hair like that?

    I*d hate god if it weren't for such beautiful words and music

    ;-)

    OK.. Thanks God

  • @moosey62 u should not say ud hate God. Very bad.

  • otimoo!! muito bonita

  • imho , one of the most beautiful songs i have had the privilege to experiance!...a gem

  • Amazingly that even tho some of us will never understand the words of songs like, Dominique, Pata Pata, La Bamba, Sukiyaki and parts of Michele by the Beatles they were still big hits!

  • @ekocentric

    Yeah Michele...when they mention the "Sunday Monkey"  ;-)

  • Beautiful song. :-)

  • Some songs (too few) transcend all cultures, they touch everyone's heart. This is one of them.

  • @takfam07 you never said a truer word

  • onde posso encontrar a versão cubana?

  • Une des meilleures versions de cette très belle chanson !

  • Great song from a Great era!

  • formidable ! merveilleux ! merci 

  • "With the poor people of this earth i want to share my fate"

  • This is one of the best non-English language songs ever along with Sukiyaki,Eres Tu and Feliz Navidad. Cool!

  • @Jupiter2able girl from ipanema???????