Karon lang niguwa ang taho nga giminyuan ni Barry Manilow ang iyang manager niadto pang miaging tuig. Sa Yahoo ko nasugatan kining maong taho.
Of course lalaki ang iyang manager. Nakahibawo naman tingali ang tanan sa preference ni Manilow. Kadtong nag concert siya diri sa Cebu natabi nga diha siyay gibirigbirigan nga waiter. Suma pa sa taho, mi-abot unag 20 ka tuig ang ilang relasyon una sila nag minyo. Tungod tingali kay karon pa man nahimong legal sa America ang same sex marriage. Duna nay 71 anyos si Manilow ug misikat siya sa mga dekadang 70s ug 80s. Marcos era pa kadto ug ang pinaka sikat nga FM station sa Cebu niadtong mga panahona mao ang dyBU ug didto ko unang nadunggan ang mga awit ni Manilow sama sa “Mandy,” “Copacabana,” “Ready to Take a Chance Again,” ug uban pa.
Dili singer composer si Manilow. Dili siya susama nila ni Neil Young, Bob Dylan ug Paul Simon. Apan bisan pa man og dili siya composer, daw murag storyteller si Manilow kon maminaw ka sa iyang kanta. Nahimuot akong ga-hunahuna nga duna pay pipila ka lyrics sa iyang mga kanta ang mosulod sa akong ulo bisan pa man sa kadugay na nga wa na ko makadungog og kanta ni Manilow.
Tingali kay manunulat man ako ug isturyador usab dali kaayong mosulod sa akong hunahuna ang kanta nga “Sandra” kon si Manilow maoy hisgutan. Ania ang lyrics, ug as usual kamo na lay pangita sa tuno sa YouTube.
“Sandra”
She’s a great little housewife/Though sometimes she talks like a fool/But she helps at the store in the holiday rush/And she picks up the kids after school/And she puts down the phone when her husband comes home/And she changes from mother to wife/’Til she feels the words hanging between them/And she hangs by her words to her life
CHORUS: She says, I swear I love my husband, I love my kids/I wanted to be like my mother/But if I hadn’t done it as soon as I did/Oh there might have been time to be me/For myself, for myself
There’s so many things that she wishes/She don’t even know what she’s missin’/And that’s how she knows that she missed.
She’s a sweetheart, except when she’s moody/It’s hard to get through to her then/Depressed for a while when the youngest was born/Oh but that happens now and again/She might take a drink with the housework/Or when Michael’s kept late at the shop/A Martini or two before dinner/But she always knows when to stop
(Repeat Chorus)
Oh they used to hold hands at the movies/Now it’s seldom if ever they go/Once you’ve paid for the sitter and parkin’ the car/There’s no money left for the show/She was doing the dishes
When a glass fell and broke on the tile/And she cut her wrist (quite by mistake)/It was real touch and go for a while
(Repeat Chorus)
Daw kabahin kini sa kalaay sa kaminyuon nga gibati sa usa ka asawa. Ug karon nga naminyo na si Manilow andam na tingali siyang mo-atubang ning maong pagbati.
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