Sun King (song)
"
Sun King" is the fourth song on side two of
The Beatles Abbey Road record. It is the second song of the climactic medley, although it is in a different key and rhythm. It was originally to be titled
"Here Comes the Sun King" but was shortened to just
Sun King to avoid confusion with
Here Comes the Sun. The lyrics to start the song are the same as the title and lyrics of
Here Comes the Sun, but with the word "King" inserted afterwords, although
George Harrison wrote the latter and
Sun King is written by
John Lennon. Later, the song, in minor key with an organ in the background, breaks into a faux
Romance language mixing
English,
Italian,
Spanish, and
Portuguese. The song is in three part harmony, sung by Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison. At the end of the song, the music stops abruptly and a
Ringo Starr drum fill leads into the next track, "
Mean Mr. Mustard".
The "faux Romance mixing" of languages occurs in the last three lines of the song, which are as follows:
Cuando para mucho mi amore de felice corazonMundo paparazzi mi amore chica ferdi parasolCuesto obrigado tanta mucho que canite carouselAlthough open for interpretation, it roughly translates as:
If for much, my love of happy heartWorld Paparazzi, my love, green girl for the sunThis, thanks very much, cake and eat it, dearest sunOn the bootleg LP "Abbey Road Talks" John is interviewed about these lyrics and says:
"We just started joking, you know, singing 'cuando para mucho'. So we just made up, ah, Paul knew a few Spanish words from school, you know. So we just strung any Spanish words that sounded vaguely like something. And of course we got `chicka ferdi' in. That's a Liverpool expression - just like sort of - it doesn't mean anything to me but 'na-na, na-na-na'"
