Inspired by winkler1's post!

I absolutely love this song and I had the wonderful opportunity to hear on vinyl over the holidays.

This is possibly the best-known Peruvian song worldwide, partly due to a cover version by Simon and Garfunkel in 1970 on their Bridge over Troubled Water album, which is called "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)" in full. Paul Simon used only the melody and wrote entirely new, unrelated lyrics.

Simon and Garfunkel are an American popular music duo comprising Paul Simon and Arthur "Art" Garfunkel. They met in grade school in 1953, when they both appeared in the school play of Alice in Wonderland (Simon as the White Rabbit, Garfunkel as The Cheshire Cat). They are well known for their close harmonies and sometimes unstable relationship.

The lyrics:
I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.

I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.

Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world
Its saddest sound,
Its saddest sound.

I'd rather be a forest than a street.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.

I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet,
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.

- More @ Wikipedia

Nice..makes me feel like I just smoked a fatty. Or maybe that's cuz I stayed up too late and haven't had any caffeine yet. Anyways, this song isn't that obscure IMO, my slightly hippie mother listened to it.
Guess it belongs to the genre of hippie hammer songs.
Edit - thought of another 60's hammer song- Maxwell's silver hammer.

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Thanks Silvercord.

No prob, my liege.



Sincerely,

The Acolyte

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I love this song. I'm guessing this is a different video than originally posted since this is only Garfunkel, but it is still a very cool version.

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