Ramones - The KKK took my baby away

Aviso: esta canción está basada en hechos reales.

Bueno, no es que el Ku Klux Klan raptase a la protagonista de la canción. Lo que ocurrió fue que Johnny Ramone le levantó la novia a Joey Ramone. Joey escribió la canción, en la que el KKK hace referencia a la ideología ultraconservadora del guitarrista. Después de aquello, dejaron de hablarse. Los dos murieron hace unos años, al igual que otro de los fundadores de la banda, Dee Dee Ramone.


Los Ramones son, junto a los Sex Pistols, la banda más importante del punk, movimiento nacido en los años 70. Canciones cortas, melodías sencillas, letras irónicas, y ausencia total de virtuosismo son las señas de una música en la que las guitarras distorsionan y no hay apenas punteos.

Como ejemplo, esta canción:





La letra:
She went away for the holidays
Said she's going to L.A.
But she never got there
She never got there
She never got there, they say
[x2]

[Chorus: x2]
The KKK took my baby away
They took her away
Away from me

Now I don't know
Where my baby can be
They took her from me
They took her from me
I don't know
Where my baby can be
They took her from me
They took her from me

Ringy, ringy, ringy
Up the President
And find out
Where my baby went
Ringy, ringy, ringy
Up the FBI
And find out if
My baby's alive

Yeah, yeah, yeah
oh oh oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh oh oh oh

She went away for the holidays
Said she's going to L.A.
But she never got there
She never got there
She never got there, they say
[x2]

[Chorus: x3]
The KKK took my baby away
They took my girl
They took my baby away