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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Efs70GDO3k
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXOUpXKn1NM This is 14 minutes
Bruce Springsteen did a version of this, too! More about this song below the fold:
(in English: I only ask of God) is a famous protest song, written by Argentine singer-songwriter León Gieco. It is the first song of Gieco's 1978 album, IV LP….
...Gieco wrote it [that year] at his parents' house in his childhood village of Cañada Rosquín, a small town in the north of Santa Fe Province, Argentina... first trying out melodies with his harmonica and guitar, then writing personal feelings which gradually turned into phrases inspired by the harsh social events of the time, such as the military dictatorship of his country, Mercedes Sosa’s exile, and the threat of war between Chile and Argentina at the time.[2]
Gieco [questioned including it] on his 1978 album IV LP, believing it was "boring and monotonous", but finally did, [on] the advice of Charly García [and thereafter] sang it as his closing song and ... in all his national and international tours.[3]
Since then it has been interpreted by various artists, both from Argentina and around the world … and translated into more than 25 languages, including English, Portuguese, Basque, German, Quechua, Catalan, Persian, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew...
Click the song link for wikipedia’s list of artists singing it.
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