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Artist:Chuck Berry
Label:  Quality
Country:Canada
Catalogue:1631
Date:1957
Format:10"
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 1 Owns, 1 Wants
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AChuck BerryOh Baby DollBerryRate
BChuck BerryLajaunda (Espanol)BerryRate


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xiphophilos
13th Aug 2020
 Español (Spanish) would be a suitable subtitle for this song since it's all about the speaker's inability to understand Spanish.

In Baja California,
Down in Tijuana,
La señorita come to me,
She say, "Mi nombre es La Juanda."

I asked her, would she care to dance.
She looked at me and said, "¿Como Esta?"
I said, "Hablo solo en Español, no comprendo Ingles. –
I speak only the language of English,
I don't understand Español."

For a moment, I took a notion,
then I went into a dancing motion.
She nodded her head,
"Mi mucho gusto" she said
And she danced with more devotion.

And when her cheek came close to mine,
I could hear her softly whisper
She said, "Hablo solo la lengua de Ingles
No comprendo Español"
I speak only the language of English
I don't understand Español."

She placed her hand before my heart
And she whispered, "Yo te amora"
With half-closed eyes
She raised her lips
And she said, "Besame ahora."
She hold me close and she squeeze me tight
And she whispered, "Yo quiero amora."
I say, "Hablo solo la langua de Ingles,
No comprendo Español –
I speak only the language of English,
I don't understand Español."

Graham Reid on his blog comically interprets this as a negotiating ploy by Chu Berry as he is haggling with a Mexican prostitute in Tijuana.

The Spanish is so bad, though, that Berry's Spanish abilities must indeed have been rather limited - unless you want to argue that the mix-up between Ingles and Español in the first Spanish phrase is intended to prove the speaker's point. "Yo te amora" instead of "te amo", for example, is so bad it almost hurts. Apart from that, why would Berry sing the entire song in a fake Spanish accent and even make tense mistakes in the English (come, hold, squeeze) like a non-native speaker when his whole point supposedly is that he can't speak any Spanish? Is he playing a native speaker of Spanish pretending to be an English speaker who doesn't speak Spanish? As I said, this song makes no sense.

Namika does a far better job with the same idea in her "Je ne parle pas français":
 
 
slholzer
13th Aug 2020
 Side B of the Quality issue has incorrectly listed a second composer named Espanol. Chuck Berry is the only actual composer of the piece. On the original Chess issue, the word Espanol appeared in parentheses under the title. It does not appear that way on the illustrated label although the title has been "restored" to that form for purposes of this entry.
 

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