#SIMON AND GARFUNKEL SONGS WITH LYRICS FULL#

For the rest, Daniel Alomia Robles certainly presented the piece -with no lyrics at all- as his composition in 1913, included as one of the movements of a zarzuela (a kind of mixed spoken and sung operetta), but Robles, who was a fine composer, also used to compile and arrange lots of Andean folk music that he had collected in his youth travelling across Perú. The instruments of the track are two quenas (Andean vertical flutes), two charangos strung in metal double strings (it is these two instruments, the two charangos, than can be heard at the begining of the song, one played strummed and the other plucked, taking the tune of the prelude obefore the 'famous tune' enters), one guitar (Spanish guitar) and bombo (drum) and the master used was that previously released by Philips back in 1963 in a Los Incas LP. Arrangement by Jorge Milchberg and English lyrics by Paul Simon'.

#SIMON AND GARFUNKEL SONGS WITH LYRICS FULL#

As the credits of Bridge over troubled waters state, 'Instrumental track is performed by Los Incas with full authorization of Philips Records. In short, only Los Incas play in that track. They just added voices to the version that Los Incas had already recorded in Paris in 1963 for Philips. Ockeghem from MadridThere are a few innacuracies in the story told here, but I shall concentrate in one of them, particularly important, and for which I find no explanation, because the truth is perfectly made clear in the credits of Bridge over troubled waters: Paul Simon does not play any instrument in the version of If I could that was included in Bridge over troubled waters.John Martin from Maryland UsaWe all would rather be the hammer than the nail if we could, fantastic tune that rings so true.

Simon and garfunkel songs with lyrics