Travis Edmonson of Bud & Travis
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Travis Edmonson Songs S
SABRAS QUE TE QUIERO
SCARLET RIBBONS
SCOTCH AND SODA
SIN TI
SLOOP JOHN B
SO LONG, STAY WELL
SOUTH WIND
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SABRAS QUE TE QUIERO
See Lyrics and translation at end of page
No other example need be cited to illustrate why Travis Edmonson is the consummate romantic vocalist. After hearing him, who still requires translation of the title to “You Know That I Love You”? A single release from the "Perspective" album, it is also included on the live CD, "The Tucson Tapes 2."
Hear sound clip on TUCSON TAPES 1 page
SCARLET RIBBONS
This ballad of tenderness, faith and a parent's love can often be given a treatment so syrupy that it has the opposite effect from that intended, but when Travis Edmonson sings it, it becomes completely fresh again, with all the wonder and warmth in tact.
Hear sound clip on TUCSON TAPES 2 page
SCOTCH AND SODA
There's an undeniable enchantment in this song, and it's a wonder that it never came to the fore or was done on any popular recordings beyond The Kingston Trio's. "Scotch and Soda" is one of the special delights of “The Tucson Tapes 2” CD, with Travis Edmonson adding a twist of lemon that just enhances the taste of a good thing.
Hear sound clip on "Tucson Tapes 2" CD page
SHE NEVER LOVED ME (see “CHOCOUNNE”)
SIN TI
See Lyrics and translation at end of page
It would take a thousand written words to elucidate what Travis Edmonson so completely conveys when he sings those two syllables of the yearning bolero describing life “without you.”
Hear sound clip on THE LATIN ALBUM page
SLOOP JOHN B
When a smile comes so instantly to the lips after listening to these lines for 44 years, as if hearing them for the first time, then there can be no question that this presentation is what charm and talent are all about.
Hear sound clip on "In Concert" LP page
SO LONG, STAY WELL
There is a compelling quality to Travis Edmonson's voice on this song - similarly to be found on “The Web” and “Every Night When the Sun Goes In” - which is both tender and beguiling. The esoteric Art Podell-Rod McKuen ballad, concentrating on the divisions between childhood and adulthood, and the boy lost within the man, is rife with poignancy to begin with, and the Bud and Travis version intensifies all the questions and statements of the lyric.
Hear sound clip on "Perspective" LP page
SOUTH WIND
Rather different than most of Travis Edmonson's other recorded compositions, this powerful song from the debut Liberty album, was happily included on the Collectibles CD "The Best of Bud and Travis." The north wind's chill, which is actually the subject of the song, seems to almost penetrate the bones via the churning rhythm, and if there can be no doubt that the singer has wandered far from the gentle south wind, he knows it when his love says she will only return, "if the sun should freeze or the earth should burn."
Hear sound clip on BUD AND TRAVIS Debut Album page
SABRAS QUE TE QUIERO LYRICS
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Literal English
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Musical English
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Cuando puedan mis noches hablarte
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When my nights can speak to you
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If you knew my world when dawn comes stealing,
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y puedan decirte lo que eres en mí
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and tell you what you are to me,
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You would be able to know all you mean to me.
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que de cosas irán de contarte
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what things will they tell you
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Could you ever understand what I'm feeling?
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cuántas otras sabrás tú de mí
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How many things will you know about me?
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That to all of my life you're the key?
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Que te quiero, sabrás que te quiero
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That I love you,
you'll know I love you
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That I love you, you must know I love you.
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cariño como éste, jamás existió
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Love like this never existed before.
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Sweet, this is a love that Is completely new.
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que mis ojos
jamás han llorado,
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That my eyes never have wept
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No eyes could weep tears like those that I knew
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como aquella tardes en que te dije adiós
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like that evening when I told you goodbye.
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that night of pain so deep when I said goodbye to you
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Que deseo volver a tu lado,
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That I want to
return to your side;
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How I need to be again beside you
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tenerte conmigo, vivir nuestro amor
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have you beside me to live our love.
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and begin to live our world of love a new
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que te quiero,
sabrás que te quiero,
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That I love you, you'll know that I love you.
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You are all love; you must know you're my love
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porque eres mi vida, mi cielo y mi dios.
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Because you are my life, my sky, my heaven.
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For you are my whole life, my heaven from above
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Porque eres mi vida, mi cielo, y mi dios
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Because you are my life, my sky, my heaven.
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For you are my whole life, my heaven from above
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SIN TI LYRICS
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Sin ti
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Without you
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Alone
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no podre vivir jamas
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I could never live
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What else is there for my fate?
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tu pensar que nunca mas
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thinking that you will never
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Since you're gone, it's now too late
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estaras junto
a mi
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be beside me again
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Forever now on my own
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Sin ti
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Without you
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Alone.
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que me puede ya importar
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What can matter now
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Darkness fills the sky above
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si lo que me
hace llorar
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if the one who makes me weep
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Day is night without your love
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esta lejos de aqui?
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is far from here
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Blackness I've never known
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Sin ti
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Without you
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Alone
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no hay clemencia en mi dolor
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There's no end to my pain
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Life's eternal tears of pain
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la esperaza de mi amor
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You carry my love's hope
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How they fall like bitter rain
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te la llevas al fin
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until the end
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Til time's end I'm your own
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Sin ti
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Without you
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Alone
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es inutil vivir
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It's pointless to live
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Not to be on my own
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como inutil sera
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As pointless as it is
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I would pay any cost
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el quererte olvidar
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wanting to forget you
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Without you I am lost
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