# Translate that tune! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209 "2002-12-03T14:18:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/21 "2002-12-03T18:43:09Z")
**1) sensaciones, nada mas que sensaciones.** This is “Feelings” **2)Alli un senora que es segura que todo que brilla es de oro** And this is “Stairway to Heaven.” Et plus, mais je ne parle pas le francais tres bien: 1. Je monte, ainsi vous mettriez mieux cette partie en route. 2. J’aime de grands derrieres et je ne peux pas mentir. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/22 "2002-12-03T18:47:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > \*\* > 2) J’aime de grands derrieres et je ne peux pas mentir. \*\* I speak no French, but can tell this is **Baby Got Back** by Sir Mix-a-lot (well, I guess I must speak some). All guesses regarding mine have been correct. ---
**Author:** ![silverfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@silverfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silverfish)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/23 "2002-12-03T18:59:04Z")
Another couple for you to guess 1. holla! me llamo (que) me llamo (quien) me llama … 2)mi casa, es una muy muy muy fino casa ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/24 "2002-12-03T19:02:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by silverfish \* > \*\*Another couple for you to guess > > 1. holla! me llamo (que) me llamo (quien) > me llama … > > \*\* Slim Shady. Finally got one. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/25 "2002-12-03T19:09:10Z")
> [@](#): > > 2)mi casa, es una muy muy muy fino casa 1. Our House (Nuestra casa) And these: 2. Ya no voy a trabajar por la granja de Maggie. 3. En un sitio blanco con cortinas negras ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/26 "2002-12-03T19:15:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enginerd \* > \*\*2) Our House (Nuestra casa) > And these: > > 1. Ya no voy a trabajar por la granja de Maggie. > 2. En un sitio blanco con cortinas negras \*\* Maggie’s Farm-Dylan White Room-Cream Silverfish’s #1 is similar to my letter C ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/27 "2002-12-03T20:52:18Z")
SolGrundy’s #1 is Pink - “I’m coming up, so you’d better get this party started” how about “Un appartement, une sale rue pietinée, eculée par des pieds nus Dedans, si long, si complète Regardé par un soleil frissonant…” ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/28 "2002-12-03T20:56:58Z")
Here’s a couple more X - Quien vive en una pina debajo del mar? - Roberto de esponja de pantalones cuadrados! Y - Soy un perdedor, Soy un perdedor bebe’, eso porque tu no me mata. Z - I am not a sailor, I am not a sailor. I am a captain, I am a captain. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/29 "2002-12-03T21:02:46Z")
Y is Loser by Beck Z is La Bamba by Ritchie Valens. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/30 "2002-12-03T21:09:05Z")
no 2 from me - “J’ai regarder si longtemps ces images de toi que je crois quasiment qu’ils sont vrai” no 3 from me - “Tu vois rien sauf ce que tes yeux veulent voir. Comment est-ce que la vie peut être ce que tu veux? Tu es gelée lorsque ton coeur n’est pas ouvert” ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/31 "2002-12-03T21:59:10Z")
and X is Sponge Bob Squarepants ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/32 "2002-12-03T23:20:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lost4life \* > \*\*Some more. > > C) Este parece un trabajo para mi, asi que todos sigue me, porque necesitamos una poca controversia > \*\* So this looks like a job for me, so everybody just follow me because we need little controversy- Without me, Eminem ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/33 "2002-12-04T00:10:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tansu \* > \*\* > no 3 from me - “Tu vois rien sauf ce que tes yeux veulent voir. Comment est-ce que la vie peut être ce que tu veux? > Tu es gelée lorsque ton coeur n’est pas ouvert” \*\* Is this Madonna’s Frozen? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/34 "2002-12-04T00:17:11Z")
**Tansu** - Second is from “Frozen.” “You only see what your eyes want to see How can life be what you want it to be? You’re frozen, when your heart’s not open.” Whoohoo!! Okay, mine: “Je nageais dans la Carribean, Des animaux se cachaient derriere les roches Sauf les petits poissons…” ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/35 "2002-12-04T00:38:45Z")
I’m really bad at guessing these. It exposes the vast gaps in my knowlege of music that is less than twenty years old. **lost4life** got three of mine spot-on: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lost4life \* > **Na cidade onde naci, morava um homem quem andava de veleiro no mar.** > > Yellow Submarine? > > **Ontem, todos meus problemas pareciam tão longe, agora parece que estão aqui para ficar.** > > Yesterday? > > **Na distância, eu avistei uma luz cintilante. Minha cabeca ficou pesada, minha vista embaçada** > > Hotel California? > > I can only pick out like 3 or 4 words, so I’m not to sure… There is still this one hanging out there: **3. Em algum lugar no seu sorriso, ela sabe que não preciso de outra amante.** Here’s a couple more to chew on: **5. Quarta-feira de manhã às cinco horas…** **6. Somos apenas duas almas perdidas nadando no aquário, um ano atrás do outro.** **7. Gostaria que pudesse ter conhecido você, mas era apenas criança…** ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/36 "2002-12-04T00:43:16Z")
More! 1. Me sentí un poco mareado; la multitud clamaba por más. La sala giraba más rápido,cuando el techo se voló. 2. Dime si puedes ver, en la luz del alba… 3. Fue una bofetada, cuan pronto fui reemplazada, Estás pensando en mi cuando la follas? 4. Detente ahí mismo! Quiero saber ahora mismo! Me amas? Me amarás para siempre? 5. Me encontré con un hijo de Dios, que caminaba al lado de la carretera y le pregunté a donde iba y esto me dijo… 6. Nunca has atrapado un conejo, y no eres mi amigo ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/37 "2002-12-04T00:49:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by minor7flat5 \* > There is still this one hanging out there: > > **3. Em algum lugar no seu sorriso, ela sabe que não preciso de outra amante.** “Somewhere in her smile, she knows that I don’t need no other lover” – Something, George Harrison/Beatles > [@](#): > > Here’s a couple more to chew on: > > **5. Quarta-feira de manhã às cinco horas…** > > **6. Somos apenas duas almas perdidas nadando no aquário, um ano atrás do outro.** > > **7. Gostaria que pudesse ter conhecido você, mas era apenas criança…** \*\* “Wednesday morning at five o’clock…” - Beatles, She’s Leaving Home? “We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year” – Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here “I would have loved to know you but I was just a kid” Elton John, Candle In the Wind ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/38 "2002-12-04T01:40:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JRDelirious \* > \*\*More! > > 1. Fue una bofetada, cuan pronto fui reemplazada, > Estás pensando en mi cuando la follas? > > \*\* 1. You Oughta Know- Alanis Morisette…the last sentence gave it out. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/39 "2002-12-04T01:46:13Z")
**4. Detente ahí mismo! Quiero saber ahora mismo! Me amas? Me amarás para siempre?** I gotta know right now! Do you love me? Will you love me forever? Paradise by the Dashboard Lights. \*\*6. Nunca has atrapado un conejo, y no eres mi amigo \*\* You ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine. Hound Dog. ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translate-that-tune/140209/40 "2002-12-04T01:48:58Z")
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