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[spicetones]

Does anyone know of songs whose lyrics were originally in English, and were either translated or had new lyrics written from scratch in any of these languages

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[schwa]

Manel covered Pulp's Common People -- in Catalan, though. You can find a couple versions on youtube (it's called "La Gent Normal").

[yukie88]

Rene Liu made a cover of David Usher's Black black heart, Fen Kai lu Xing

[mayanas]

This seems to happen a lot in Denmark. I know 'laban' has done a few, as have Lis Sørensen. Traditionally 'Mandalay' is probably the most famous one.

Leonard Cohen had an entire album dedicated to him with Danish interpretations of his songs. (LC på danske læber).

Lots of pop (and all disney) songs gets translated for the enjoyment of children and young teens, such as 'Hands up' -> 'Op med hænderne'.

[mayanas]

Oh and 'Puff the magic dragon'. I absolutely loved the Danish version when I was a child.

[provencepuss]

and Cohen sings the partisan song in french and in English at all his concerts.

[blue_sky_day]

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

[er1s]

Shakira does this a lot:

"En Tus Pupilas" Spanish version of "Something" from Oral Fixation Vol. 2
"Día Especial" Spanish version of "The Day and The Time" from Oral Fixation Vol. 2
"Hips Don't Lie"/ (Spanish version)
"Objection (Tango)"/"Te Aviso, Te Anuncio (Tango)"
"Whenever, Wherever"/"Suerte"