Sun King (song)
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| "Sun King" | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| From the album Abbey Road | ||
| Album released | September 26 1969 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Song Length | 02:26 | |
| Record label | Apple Records | |
| Producer | George Martin | |
| Abbey Road Album Listing | ||
| You Never Give Me Your Money (Track 9) | Sun King (Track 10) | Mean Mr. Mustard (Track 11) |
"Sun King" is the fourth song on side two of The Beatles Abbey Road record. It is the second song of the climactic medley, although it is in a different key and rhythm. It was originally to be titled "Here Comes the Sun King" but was shortened to just Sun King to avoid confusion with Here Comes the Sun. The lyrics to start the song are the same as the title and lyrics of Here Comes the Sun, but with the word "King" inserted afterwords, although George Harrison wrote the latter and Sun King is written by John Lennon. Later, the song, in minor key with an organ in the background, breaks into a faux Romance language mixing English, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. The song is in three part harmony, sung by Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison. At the end of the song, the music stops abruptly and a Ringo Starr drum fill leads into the next track, "Mean Mr. Mustard".
The "faux Romance mixing" of languages occurs in the last three lines of the song, which are as follows:
Cuando para mucho mi amore de felice corazon
Mundo paparazzi mi amore chica ferdi parasol
Cuesto obrigado tanta mucho cake and eat it carousel
Although open for interpretation, it roughly translates as:
If for much, my love of happy heart
World Paparazzi, my love, green girl for the sun
This, thanks very much, cake and eat it, dearest sun
On the bootleg LP "Abbey Road Talks" John is interviewed about these lyrics and says:
"We just started joking, you know, singing 'cuando para mucho'. So we just made up, ah, Paul knew a few Spanish words from school, you know. So we just strung any Spanish words that sounded vaguely like something. And of course we got `chicka ferdi' in. That's a Liverpool expression - just like sort of - it doesn't mean anything to me but 'na-na, na-na-na'"
| The Beatles |
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| John Lennon | Paul McCartney | George Harrison | Ringo Starr Pete Best | Stuart Sutcliffe |
| Management |
| Brian Epstein | Allen Klein | Apple Records |
| Production |
| George Martin | Geoff Emerick | Norman Smith | Phil Spector | Abbey Road Studios |
| Official studio albums |
| Please Please Me (1963) | With the Beatles (1963) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Beatles for Sale (1964) | Help! (1965) | Rubber Soul (1965) | Revolver (1966) | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | The Beatles (1968) | Yellow Submarine (1969) | Abbey Road (1969) | Let It Be (1970) |
| A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | Yellow Submarine (1968) | Let it Be (1970) |
| History | Lennon-McCartney | Bootlegs | Discography | Anthology | Influence | The Quarrymen | London | Beatlemania | Beatlesque | Fifth Beatle | Paul Is Dead | British Invasion | Apple Corps | Northern Songs | Harrisongs | Startling Music |
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