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Summer Breeze de Seals and Crofts
(Transcripción del programa de Radio de la BBC) 

 ♫         See the curtains hanging in the window         

In the evening on a Friday night

A little light a-shining through the window

Lets me know everything’s alright

♫         Summer breeze makes me feel fine

Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

Summer breeze makes me feel fine

Blowing through the jasmine in my mind.

Hello, I’m Keith Washington, and I’m Catherine Irving.

Today’s song is a happy song, a song about a man in summer. It’s Friday night. He comes home after a hard days work and his wife is there waiting for him. Today’s song is called ‘Summer Breeze’, and it’s sung by Seals and Crofts. The song, ‘Summer Breeze’, sung by Seals and Crofts. Here’s how it starts:

A man is walking home on Friday evening. He sees the curtains hanging in the window. He sees a little light shining through the window, and he knows everything’s alright.

♫         See the curtains hanging in the window

In the evening on a Friday night

A little light a-shining through the window

Lets me know everything’s alright

See the curtains hanging in the window, in the evening on a Friday night, a little light shining through the window, lets me know everything’s alright.

See the curtains, see, with a light. Look at the curtains, look at the curtains in the window, curtains are hanging in the window, windows are made of glass, every house has windows, windows, to look out of, windows, to let the lighting, you can look out of windows but other people can look in, other people can look inside your house, and sometimes you don’t want that, so you put the curtains. Curtains hang in the windows of houses, curtains are made of cloth, material, fabric; curtains are made of cloth. Open the curtains; you can see out, people can look in. Close the curtains; you can’t look out, other people can’t see in.

♫         See the curtains hanging in the window

In the evening on a Friday night

A little light a-shining through the window

Lets me know everything’s alright

See the curtains hanging in the window, in the evening on a Friday night. In the evening, evening, not morning, not afternoon, but evening, evening, about 6 or 7 o’clock. In the evening on a Friday night. Friday night, Friday, day before the weekend. We work on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, but on Saturday and Sunday we rest. Friday night, just before the weekend when we rest. See the curtains hanging in the window in the evening on a Friday night. A little light shining through the window. Light. When it’s dark, at night time, when it’s too dark that you can’t see well, we put on the light, we put on the light. We switch on the electric light, so we can see. So there’s a little light shining through the window. A little light, a little light shining through the window. A light shines, a light shines so you can see it. There’s a little light shining through the window.

♫         See the curtains hanging in the window

In the evening on a Friday night

A little light a-shining through the window

Lets me know everything’s alright

See the curtains hanging in the window, in the evening on a Friday night, a little light shining through the window, lets me know everything’s alright. All this makes him know that everything’s alright, everything is alright. Alright, ok, alright, no problems, alright, guy, well, alright. He’s coming home and he hopes that everything’s alright. No accidents, nothing’s caught fire, nobody has stolen anything, everything’s alright, nothing bad has happened. What lets him know everything’s alright? The curtains hanging in the window, the light shining through the window.

♫         See the curtains hanging in the window

In the evening on a Friday night

A little light a-shining through the window

Lets me know everything’s alright.

See the curtains hanging in the window, in the evening on a Friday night, a little light shining through the window, lets me know everything’s alright. He’s walking home on a Friday evening, there’s a breeze, a light wind, it blows with blind, and it makes him feel fine, it makes him feel great.

♫         Summer breeze makes me feel fine

            Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

            Summer breeze makes me feel fine

            Blowing through the jasmine in my mind.

 Trabajo realizado por Marta Olmo González