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\"Fern\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So we found out Cher\u2019s featured number in Mama Mia 2<\/em> is the ABBA song \u201cFernando.\u201d You can buy it on Amazon. Go do that<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always loved ABBA. I may be one of the few people on the planet who doesn\u2019t think \u201cDancing Queen\u201d is overplayed. I actually found the song hard-to-come by on 80s radio. It was one of those songs I sang for years without having my own copy. My favorite songs change over the decades, but "Fernando" was definitely a childhood favorite so it\u2019s a treat to hear Cher\u2019s version.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s also always a thrill to hear Cher sing the place names of my home state. This probably suggests something disturbing about the degree of my celebrity obsession (that it can arise from the singing of a place name) but what can I say? <\/span><\/p>\n

For those who don\u2019t yet know, (you\u2019d be surprised), New Mexico is a U.S. state and has been once since 1912. I was once getting electrolysis on my bikini area when I lived in Pennsylvania and the technician there, (who was in her 40s), asked me about my vacation and I said I was traveling to New Mexico. She exclaimed, "Oh, you\u2019ll be by the beach!" I said, "Oh no, you\u2019re thinking of the country Mexico" like maybe I hadn't enunciated properly. "I\u2019m talking about the state between Arizona and Texas." She looked at me confused and asked, \u201cIs there an Old Mexico?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When I left LA, I tried to keep my bank in Los Angeles and I called them to see if they had any partnerships with a local New Mexico bank. They transferred me to International Accounts. Talk to New Mexicans and they all have stories like this.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, when the Kardashians visited Santa Fe, the media were making fun over their lack of knowledge about U.S. states and where New Mexico was, my co-worker commented hilariously,  \u201cget those bitches out of my country.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, when Cher sings, \u201cthe frightful night we crossed the Rio Grande,\u201d it\u2019s lovely. LOVELY!<\/span><\/p>\n

I was just as thrilled when Cher sang \u201cone night in Santa Fe\u201d in the middle of the song \u201cCarousel Man<\/a>.\u201d <\/span>\"Cm\"<\/a>I first learned that song when I was six or seven and like all of Cher's story songs, I loved it. I eventually grew up and started to worry that the song\u2019s writer, John Durrill, himself didn\u2019t know the difference between Mexico and New Mexico. I tried to rationalize that maybe the story in the song occurred before the state was ceded from Mexico in 1848 but that was ridiculous because our leading lady in the song wears blue jeans and the traveling show follow "county lines," which sort of indicates a rural U.S. environment. Here are the lyrics as Cher sings them (listen along<\/a>):<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a taste of bitter life
<\/span><\/em>at sweet sixteen.
<\/span><\/em>I was growing up too fast
<\/span><\/em>if you know what I mean.
<\/span><\/em>Met an older man
<\/span><\/em>who taught me his own way to live.
<\/span><\/em>And all I had to do to keep him
<\/span><\/em>was to give and give<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

[Chorus] The carousel man
<\/span><\/em>kept me going around and round.
<\/span><\/em>The carousel man always knowing
<\/em>I'd stay around.
<\/span><\/em>The carousel man
<\/span><\/em>wouldn't let me off his merry-go-round.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I followed him around in traveling shows
<\/span><\/em>along the main county lines.
<\/span><\/em>Watched him drinking his mind away,
<\/span><\/em>not ever knowing my name at times.
<\/span><\/em>Each night when the show closed down
<\/span><\/em>he used to tell me of his dreams.
<\/span><\/em>He was wearing new French suits
<\/span><\/em>while I mended my torn work jeans.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

[Chorus]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Then one night in Santa Fe,
<\/strong><\/em>the horses stopped going around.
<\/strong><\/em>There he was my poor rich man
<\/strong><\/em>lying on the Mexico ground.
<\/strong><\/em>All the sad music of his life
<\/span><\/em>is still spinning in my mind.
<\/em>The carousel starts up again
<\/span><\/em>and I found my place in line.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

[Chorus]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The lyrics online clearly say Mexico [forget the grammatical issue of Mexico vs. Mexican]. And why her producer Snuff Garrett, (from Texas no less; he was even a DJ in nearby Lubbock!) didn\u2019t catch this is beyond me. You can kind of convince yourself that Cher is singing \u201cNew Mexico ground\u201d instead of \u201cthe Mexico\u201d ground. But I know. She isn\u2019t. It\u2019s a mistake. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sante Fe hasn\u2019t been part of Mexico since 1848. And back then there were no torn jeans or carousels visiting Santa Fe along county lines. It\u2019s hard to look around that. I mean, obviously, most people can.  <\/span><\/p>\n

But the pleasure of hearing Cher sing \u201cone night Santa Fe\u201d is now is compromised by the fact that this historic town is considered part of Mexico in all the minds of everyone writing, producing and singing the song and that makes me sad a little bit every time. A little thrilled and then a little sad. Every time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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