Tom Bombadil

[Carlos Cantabria]

This is a Spanish band from Castellón, near Valencia, in the East coast of Spain. I had heard a couple of mentions of them, and I searched for them on the Internet, and what I found amazed me.

First, I found a cover of "Whiskey in the jar", called "Whiskey en el bar", which literally means "Whiskey at the bar". All their words are in Spanish or Valencian language, but their lyrics don't have anything to do with the original lyrics of the songs they cover. Have a look at this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9RTSETScn8

Then I found their page http://www.myspace.com/tombombadilcs, where you can see 6 covers of Irish songs.

Suddenly I found another song on youtube of them, and it is a song of The Pogues!!! "Streams Of Whiskey", the title of the song in Spanish is "Cazadores", which means "Hunters". The lyrics don't either have anything to do with the original of the Pogues, it is a song against hunting whose chorus says (literal translation into English): "HUNTERS, HUNTERS, we are going to fuck your arse HUNTERS..." and so.

Here you have this cover of "Streams Of Whiskey", I hope you like it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KruZK0v2bA

[firehazard]

That's a good find, Carlos, thanks for sharing it.

And thanks for the translation too. Always useful to know these things. My Spanish is, erm, unreliable.