{"id":28149,"date":"2023-12-19T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T21:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=28149"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T21:17:27","slug":"remembering-ms-edith-piaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/remembering-ms-edith-piaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Ms. Edith Piaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/A-song-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28151\" width=\"218\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/A-song-1.jpg 439w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/A-song-1-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 85vw, 218px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>French singer\/actress Ms. Edith Piaf was born in Paris on December 19, 1915. She died in her birth country on October 10, 1963 (<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/duAT2\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/duAT2<\/a>). Bambi will pause for a couple of minutes to honour her memory with one her most beautiful songs, &#8220;<em>La foule&#8221;<\/em> [<em>&#8220;The Crowd&#8221;<\/em>]. The latter is an adaptation of a Waltz melody, entitled \u201c<em>Que nadie sepa mi sufrir<\/em>\u201d (composed in 1936 by Argentinian songwriter \u00c1ngel Cabral). For your convenience, an English translation of the lyrics appear at the end of this post (<a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/efhjZ\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/efhjZ<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Edith Piaf - La foule\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CKHtgQzY3js?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>&#8220;I see the city in celebration and delirium<br>Suffocating under the sun and under the joy<br>And I hear in the music the cries, the laughter<br>That burst and bounce around me<br>And lost among these people who jostle me<br>Stunned, distraught, I stay there<br>When suddenly I turn around, he pulls back<br>And the crowd comes to throw me into their arms<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Carried away by the crowd that drags us<br>Train us<br>Crushed Against Each Other<br>We are one body<br>And the flow without effort<br>Pushes us, chained to each other<br>And leave us both<br>Blissful, intoxicated and happy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Carried away by the rushing crowd<br>And who dances<br>A crazy farandole<br>Our two hands remain united<br>And sometimes raised<br>Our two entwined bodies fly away<br>And both fall back<br>Blissful, intoxicated and happy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>And the joy splashed by his smile<br>Pierces me and springs back deep inside me<br>But suddenly I cry out among the laughter<br>When the crowd comes to tear her from my arms<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Carried away by the crowd that drags us<br>Train us<br>Keeps us apart<br>I struggle and I struggle<br>But the sound of her voice<br>Chokes on the laughter of others<br>And I scream in pain and fury and rage<br>And I cry<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Carried away by the rushing crowd<br>And who dances<br>A crazy farandole<br>I am carried away<br>And I clench my fists, cursing the crowd that robs me<br>The man she gave me<br>And that I never found&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/heart-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28152\" width=\"214\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/heart-13.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/heart-13-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French singer\/actress Ms. Edith Piaf was born in Paris on December 19, 1915. She died in her birth country on October 10, 1963 (https:\/\/shorturl.at\/duAT2). Bambi will pause for a couple of minutes to honour her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28153,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28149\/revisions\/28153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}