Lembrando

[Fonte: Satchmo]

Há 34 anos falecia Louis Armstrong, que também usava a alcunha de "Satchmo", um dos mais influentes nomes do jazz.
Apoiou financeiramente o movimento cívico de Martin Luther King Jr. e chegou mesmo a incompatibilizar-se com a Casa Branca quando acusou o Presidente Eisenhower de ter “duas caras”, a propósito de um conflito racial no Estado do Arkansas.
Para nós ficam especiais momentos de beleza, como “What A Wonderful World”:

I see trees of green........ red roses too

I watch 'em bloom..... for me and for you

And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue..... clouds of white

Bright blessed days....dark sacred nights

And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world.

The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the sky

Are there on the faces.....of people ..going by

I see friends shaking hands.....sayin'.. how do you do

They're really sayin'......I love you.

I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow

They'll learn much more.....than I'll never know

And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world

And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world

Yes I think to myself .......what a wonderful world.

j.marioteixeira@sapo.pt