THE FUTURE, MAY & WILL FOR WISHES & PREDICTIONS

Today, The Grandma has continued her English classes with The Bishops in Castelldefels.

First, they have practised future tense and indefinite pronouns composed by some, any and no.

Next, they have read some tarot cards and have predicted the future using Will/Won't, and they have expressed their best wishes using May.

It has been another interesting class where they have been talking about different themes like the troubadours, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Gypsy culture, and the importance of space and time in compositions and explanations.

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Forever Young is a song by Bob Dylan, recorded in California in November 1973. The song first appeared, in two different versions, a slow-pace and a fast-pace, on Dylan's fourteenth studio album Planet Waves.

A demo version of the song, recorded in New York City in June 1973, was included on Dylan's 1985 compilation Biograph. In the notes included with that album, Dylan is quoted as saying that he wrote Forever Young in Tucson, Arizona, thinking about one of his sons and not wanting to be too sentimental.

 

A live version of the song, recorded in Tokyo on 28 February 1978 and included on Dylan's album Bob Dylan at Budokan, was released as a European single in 1979.

 
Written as a lullaby for his eldest son Jesse, born in 1966, Dylan's song relates a father's hopes that his child will remain strong and happy.

It opens with the lines, May God bless and keep you always / May your wishes all come true, echoing the priestly blessing from the Book of Numbers, which has lines that begin: May the Lord bless you and guard you / May the Lord make His face shed light upon you. Not wishing to sound too sentimental, Dylan included two versions of the song on the album Planet Waves, one a lullaby and the other more rock-oriented.

In notes on Forever Young written for the 2007 album Dylan, Bill Flanagan writes that Dylan and the Band got together and quickly knocked off an album, Planet Waves, that featured two versions of a blessing from a parent to a child. In the years he was away from stage, Dylan had become a father. He had that in common with a good chunk of the audience. The song reflected it. Memorably recited on American television by Howard Cosell when Muhammad Ali won the heavyweight crown for the third time.

 

According to his website, Dylan performed the song live 493 times between its live debut in 1974 and its last outing in 2011. This includes a duet with Bruce Springsteen at the Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, in 1995. Dylan also performed the song live on the Late Show with David Letterman in 1993.

 

Rod Stewart recorded a song titled Forever Young that was released as a single and included on his 1988 album Out of Order. Stewart's manager, Arnold Stiefel, said, [I]t would be fair to say that while the melody and the music is not at all the same [as Dylan's song], the idea of the song is similar. The architecture of the lyrics of the song is very much from Dylan–there are definite similarities.

 

The similarities were enough to cause Stiefel to contact Dylan, who requested a share of the royalties, and Stewart agreed.

 

More information: Bob Dylan

 

 May you grow to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
And may you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
And may you stay forever young.

 

Bob Dylan