Eric Burdon and the Animals - "Spill the Wine"

18 May 2005 | expatguy

[expatguy]

Would someone kindly tell me what the woman in the background is saying in Spanish.

Its driving me crazy.

[Old Sarge]

I always thought she was speaking French?

[expatguy]

Sounds Spanish to me. Im listening to it now.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

IS it some PETA guy?

[snarks_when_bored]

Artist: Eric Burdon & WAR Lyrics
Song: Spill the Wine Lyrics

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

I was once out strolling one very hot summer's day
When I thought I'd lay myself down to rest in a big field of tall grass
I lay there in the sun and felt it caressing my face

And I fell asleep and dreamed
I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie
And that I was the star of the movie
This really blew my mind, the fact that me,
an overfed, long-haired leaping gnome
should be the star of a Hollywood movie

But there I was, I was taken to a place, the hall of the mountain kings
I stood high upon a mountain top, naked to the world
In front of every kind of girl, there was
black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones...

Out of the middle came a lady
She whispered in my ear something crazy
She said:

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

[spoken:]

I thought to myself what could that mean
Am I going crazy or is this just a dream
Now, wait a minute
I know I'm lying in a field of grass somewhere
so it's all in my head
and then.. I heard her say one more time:

[sung:]

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

[spoken:]

I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back
As she disappeared, but soon she returned
In her hand was a bottle of wine, in the other, a glass
She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass
And raised it to her lips
And just before she drank it, she said:

[sung:]

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

[Samurai_Jack]

I always thought he said "Dig that Girl"

[csvset]

I thought he was saying, "Take that girl".

[baltodog]

I won a synthesizer from a radio station because, at the time, I seemed to be the only one in Wichita who knew who the "overfed, long-haired, leaping gnome" was...

[snarks_when_bored]

Dang...it can pay to know trivia, eh?

[expatguy]

In the song he is singing, he gets to the part where he sings ~~

"She whispered in my ear something crazy..."

During this part of the song for a few seconds an angry lady is speaking in Spanish in the background.

What is she saying?

[snarks_when_bored]

Don't you think she's just saying in Spanish, "Spill the wine and take that pearl"?

Out of the middle came a lady
She whispered in my ear something crazy
She said:

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl
Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

[martin_fierro]

I'll have to give it another listen, but IIRC she says, "Es una cosa de locos," or, "It's a thing for crazy people."

There's also a reference in there to "Azuuuul," or "Blue."

Makes no sense. I guess it was just important to have something "Spanish-sounding" there.

< |:)~

[baltodog]

No...I thought it was something like:

"We're gonna' come to your country and take all your jobs...even the ones the blacks don't want."

[martin_fierro]

"We're gonna' come to your country and take all your jobs...even the ones the blacks don't want."

That's if you play it backwards.

[dfwgator]

It was not Eric Burdon and the Animals. He did that song with War.

[My Favorite Headache]

LMFAO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHA YES!

[rosy_toes]

LMAO

so true!!!!!!!!!

[cysublime]

What does the woman say in Spanish? Well she has 5 speaking parts...and here they are as best as I could.... out of the middle came a lady: azul cosa de locos pero asi es, bueno, pero todas las cosas estan azul azul, porque estoy ??? (blue thing of the crazies, but thats how it is, right, but everyhting in blue, blue, because I am ..???) am I going crazy?: si aqui pero yo no estoy aqui mi cuerpo no esta aqui esta volando volando, verdad afuera (yes here, but I am not here my body is not here my body is flying flying, right, outside) and then: aqui estoy con mis padres..???...es mi onda ( I am here with my parents...???...it's my deal..) soon she returned: ...???...tengo, tengo (???..I have...) and raised it to her lips: y esa mujer que le encanta...???...(and this woman likes...???) Anybody got anything better or more accurate let me know. It's hard to distinguish sometimes because of the overlying music

[csvset]

Stay away from the brown acid?