Spanish Rain (Don Quixote) [Previously Unreleased/Studio Version] - Single

cover by Mark D'Angelo 

Don Quixote aka Spanish Rain, is a song that was debuted live at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires on 26th February 2010. 

Fans have been deciphering the lyrics to the song, working out the tabs and... even wondering whether it is a song we already knew the title to, courtesy of The Bakery whiteboard which featured in Melvyn Bragg's Coldplay documentary on the South Bank show back in September 2009. So what do we know about Don Quixote so far, following its Argentinian debut? Below is a run down of the information we have, as well as early comments from Coldplayers around the world...

Don Quixote was introduced by Chris Martin as a song written especially for the Latin America tour 2010. On the C-stage in Buenos Aires, Chris Martin said, "We had such a great time in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil (2007), it would be good for us (Coldplay) if we had a special song that celebrated how much we think of the Latin American audiences. We decided to write a song about the magic escape that the band receives when they come to Latin America".

In the debuted version of Don Quixote, the song contained the lyrics "I heard you never get wet in Spanish rain". Spanish Rain was on the list of songs written on The Bakery wall that featured on the South Bank show in September 2009. It is thought that Don Quixote is a more recent version of Spanish Rain but there is no other evidence yet to prove this link. Coldplay fans have embraced the song, hoping it would make it on to LP5, however there have been several references to it sounding similar to Bruce Springsteen's Dancing In The Dark.

According to Wikipedia, Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by creating a fictional Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli.

Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.

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Lyrics

So we left La Mancha

Headed out for higher plains

Me and Sancho Panza

Looking for adventure

Rosinante at the reins

To the windmills answer

You'll never be lonely

You'll never be lonely ever again

You'll never be lonely

You'll never be lonely again

I heard you never get wet in Spanish rain

So they sent the doctor, for examining my brain

Said he's not too clear

Oh when the world,

when the world just seems, a little bit too cruel

Gonna leave it better

Make one better

So tell that princess

Tell that princess right down the train

Tell that princess

She'll never be lonely again

I heard you never get wet in Spanish rain

Ooh, ooh

I heard you never get wet in Spanish rain

I heard you never get wet in Spanish rain

Woo ooh, Wooh ooh

Heard you never get wet in Spanish rain

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01 Spanish Rain (Previously Unreleased) 

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