O ano de 2011 está chegando ao fim. Em menos de 72 horas, terá terminado.
Para mim, foi um ano muito bom. Pessoal e profissionalmente, não tenho nada que reclamar: foi um ano dos melhores.
Por isso, quero lhes deixar um presente: Frank Sinatra cantando “It was a very good year”. Há vários clips dele cantando essa música no YouTube. Escolhi o link abaixo, que tem um clip dele gravando a música, com narração do incomparável Walter Cronkite. É meio longo, quase dez minutos. Mas, na minha avaliação, cada segundo vale a pena.
Assim, se você gosta de boa música e/ou simplesmente gosta da voz de Sinatra, não deixe de ver.
Depois do link, coloco a letra da música, e um comentário, em Inglês, retirado da Wikipedia. Se você não lê Inglês, procure no Google: há traduções disponíveis.
Aqui vai.
It Was a Very Good Year
When I was seventeen,
It was a very good year
It was a very good year
For small town girls
And soft summer nights
We’d hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen.
When I was twenty-one,
It was a very good year
It was a very good year
For city girls
Who lived up the stairs
With perfumed hair
That came undone
When I was twenty-one.
When I was thirty-five,
It was a very good year
It was a very good year
For blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
We’d ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five.
But now the days are short,
I’m in the autumn of my years
And I think of my life
As vintage wine
From fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
It poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year.
Yes, indeed.
“‘It Was a Very Good Year’ is a song composed by Ervin Drake in 1961 for and originally recorded by Bob Shane of The Kingston Trio[1][2] and subsequently made famous by Frank Sinatra‘s version in D-minor, which won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male in 1966. Gordon Jenkins was awarded Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for the Sinatra version. This single peaked at #28 on the U.S. pop chart and became Sinatra’s first #1 single on the Easy Listening.[3] The song can be found on Sinatra’s 1965 album September of My Years. A live, stripped-down performance is featured on his Sinatra at the Sands album.” (Wikipedia)
Espero que 2012 seja, para você (e, naturalmente, para mim também), ainda melhor do que 2011 foi para mim.
Em São Paulo, 29 de Dezembro de 2011.
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