‘El Necio’, the song that Silvio Rodríguez dedicated to AMLO

After several years, the iconic headquarters of the National Auditorium in Mexico City was filled with euphoria and emotion with the echo of the interpretations of Silvio Rodríguez the legendary Cuban troubadour, who took advantage of the evening to dedicate, as with the revolutionary Fidel Castro, the song of “El Necio” to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.The 75-year-old singer-songwriter opened the concert with a “¡Viva México!”, and after that he began to sing his repertoire that was chanted by 10,000 voices. Much of the show was enlivened by a type of entremés in which Silvio Rodríguez with guitar in hand related what people were about to hear. It was in this way that the iconic Latin American singer-songwriter dedicated “El Necio” to President López Obrador. Once I dedicated it to Fidel, now I want to dedicate it to Andrés Manuel,” said Silvio Rodríguez and after that he made the strings of his guitar resonate to sing the verses of the song. The story of “El Necio”, a song dedicated to Fidel and AMLO “El Necio”, is perhaps one of the most famous songs of the Cuban singer-songwriter, Silvio Rodríguez due to the history it houses. This song composed in 1991 and released in 1992 was created during a special era. According to Silvio Rodríguez in an interview with Radio Nacional de Venezuela, this song that refers to foolishness was inspired by “Fidel Castro”, and in some way by himself.” What led me to write was the ideological environment of the late 1980s, early 1990s, the collapse of the socialist camp. There was already the glasnost in the Soviet Union and it was seen that this pointed towards something catastrophic. There were several journalists in Havana who asked me why I didn’t speak out about it. And I thought, I keep thinking and I always thought the same, that I don’t have to pronounce myself about everything that happens,” he said. Silvio went on to point out that these problems did not lead him to write the song because he believed that he could not force things, because a good song would not come out. He said that the moment came when he was traveling to Puerto Rico and passed through the Miami Airport, where his guitar was broken, some nationals who worked there, because they “threw themselves on him”, possibly because of some Fidel stickers and a Cuban flag that he brought. However, he acknowledged that this situation at first was not so relevant. When he arrived in Puerto Rico, he heard on the news “that the counterrevolution was very decayed because the revolutionaries ‘so-and-so’ and ‘mengano’, including me, had passed through Miami and in another era they would have dragged us, they would have cleaned the streets with us.” Having this finds and what was happening, the troubadour wondered; “a. How can one provoke so much hatred in songs that not a single one speaks of hatred?”, and continued pointing out that this ended up marking him and that is why he wrote a song based on this experience the special period that Cuba lived by the fall of the Soviet Union.Lyrics of “El Necio” by Silvio Rodríguez Not to make my icon piecesTo save me between unique and oddTo give me a place in his parnassusTo give me a little corner in his altarsMe come to invite me to repentI come to invite me not to loseI come to invite me to indefinirmeThey come to invite me to so much shitI do not know what is destinyWalking I was what I wasAllá God who will be divineI die as I liveI die as I liveI die as I liveI die as I liveI want to continue playing the lostI want to be the left-handed more than right-handedI want to make a congress of the unitedI want to pray thoroughly a “son of ours” They will say that I fashion the madness They will say that people are bad and do not deserveMas, I will leave dreaming mischiefs and fishI do not know what destiny isWalking I was what I wasAllá God, who will be divineI die as I liveI die as I liveI die as I liveI die as I liveI die as I live, as I liveI die as I lived, as I liveI die as I liveThey are dragged over rocksWhen the revolution comes downWhen my hands and my mouth will crushBut my eyes and the badajoThese will tear out my eyes and the badajoThese will be that foolishness gave birth to meThe foolishness of what is foolish todayThe foolishness of assuming the enemyThe foolishness of living without having a priceI do not know what destiny isWalking I was what I wasAllah God who will be divineI love me I die as I liveI die as I liveI die as I liveI die as I liveAccords of “El Necio” by Silvio Rodríguez MIm7 LA/MIA) Not to make my icon pieces SI7/MI MIm7 To save me between unique and odd DO LA7 To give me a place in his Parnassus LA#d MIm To give me a corner in their altarsA) They come to convidar to repent I come to invite me not to lose They come to invite me to indefinirme They come to invite me to so much shit SOL RE/FA# DO SOL RE/FA# DOB) I do not know what destiny is / Walking was what I was SOL RE DO MIm RE DO DO (LAm9) There God, who will be divine / I die as I lived MIm RE DO(Lam9) MIm RE DO LA#d I die as I lived / I die as I liveMIm7-LA9/MI-SI7/MI-MIm7-LA/MI-LAm/MI-MIm7A) I want to continue playing the lost I want to be left-handed wing more than right-handed I want to do a congress of the united I want to pray thoroughly a son of oursA) They will say that madness went out of fashion They will say that people are bad and do not deserve But I will leave dreaming mischief (Maybe multiply loaves and fishes) B) I do not know what fate is […](Mim7-FA#(m)/MI-FA/MI) MIm7 DO LAm (LAm7-LAm6-LAm6b)I die as I lived… as I lived… MIm7 DO LAm (LAm7-LAm6-LAm6b)I die as I lived… as I lived (Lam7/MI-Lam6/MI-LAm6b/MI) MIm7I die as I lived… (LA/MI-MIm7-LAm-MIm7) A) They say that they will drag me over rocks When the revolution comes down That they will crush my hands and my mouth That they will tear my eyes and the badajoA) It will be that THE foolishness gave birth with me The foolishness of what today is foolish The foolishness of assuming the enemy The foolishness of living without having a priceB) I do not know what destiny is […] (Mim7-Fa#m/MI-FA/MI)                  MIm7I die as I lived… You may also be interested in “Once I dedicated it to Fidel”, Silvio Rodríguez dedicates ‘El Necio’ to AMLO in the National AuditoriumLucha Villa reappears after moving away from the stage for more than two decadesChristian Nodal insinuates that Belinda made “black campaign” against himThis song is somewhat easy to learn, because it has few chords, however, everything will depend on your ability with the guitar and the rhythm and the time you want to give it, fast, slow etc. (With chord information the string and the bewilderment). 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