180/365 Songs: La Corrida – Francis Cabrel (featuring Pierre-Benoît Hériaud)
It’s time for something a bit special on my 365songs project today: my friend and colleague Pierre Benoît Hériaud was over at the weekend and we decided to record a song we performed live a few years back at the Partners in Excellence Film Festival. It’s Francis Cabrel’s La Corrida, a very powerful song told from the point of view of a bull entering the bullring. The bull asks itself, “est-ce que ce monde est sérieux?” – “is this world for real”, and “je ne pensais pas qu’on puisse autant s’amuser autour d’une tombe” – “I didn’t think it was possible to have so much fun around a tomb”. On the recording Pierre-Benoît is singing and playing guitar and I’m on piano and accordion.
Like many other Scottish teachers, Pierre-Benoît will be stopping for his summer holidays today, so I’d like to wish him and all my other Scottish teaching friends a good summer break – bonnes vacances à tous!
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