If I Had to Sing for my Supper, I’d Starve!

There are street musicians throughout Madrid.  Some are fantastic and others skipped some lessons.  I dropped euros in everybody’s open case or tin cup.  They were all fun to chat with whether we completely understood one another’s language or not.  Music is universal, right?  This duo in the Plaza de Mayor were great!  They sang songs in the language they heard the people (purses & wallets) nearest them speaking.  They may not have known WHAT they were singing, but they had songs in German, French, Italian, English, and something else I didn’t recognize.  Quite the entrepreneurs!   The funny part is they only new 2 or 3 songs in each language.  For Americans they did Kansas’, “Dust in the Wind,” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water!”  They may have a limited repertoire, but they choose a couple classics.  I sat in for a while and showed them some old blues riffs.  Great fun, but I only made one euro which I promptly invested in a very good beer & a tapa!  “Salute!”