Hive Open Mic #151 - Hasta Mañana (ABBA)

This week's theme Faith, Hope, and Love has been chosen by @deeanndmathews and I in turn chose a song by ABBA as my entry.

ABBA - My Love, My Life

I have been a huge ABBA fan all my life, I was a kid when they started their individual careers in Sweden. After they became a worldwide sensation as a band by winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with Waterloo I was on my way to being hooked.

I still remember my birthday in 1976 when my Mum bought me their album Arrival and hid it on the wardrobe. She didn't make a good job of it, and I sneakily listened to it when no-one was around, over and over! I was totally mesmerised by the sound of the band and the voices of the ladies.
I wanted to sing like them and during the course of their time in the limelight I learned all of their songs by heart, my untrained voice didn't thank me, something I will regret forever.

Hasta Mañana - Released in 1974

Lately I have been re-discovering their music and relearning some of the lyrics - yes, I've forgotten some -, but also learning to play them on guitar.
The song I am going to do today is one of their older ones and featured on the same album as Waterloo. I've always loved this one, it has a very clean sound with Agnetha Fältskog singing with her unmistakable voice, expressing all three parts of this week's theme, the lost love, but also the hope that the lovers meet again and the faith that they are meant to be together.
You can find a link to the wonderful lyrics further down, they were created by the "fifth ABBA", Stig Anderson, their manager.

Finally

I am not Agnetha, of course, but I still hope, you like my version of this song, which is another fairly new one and the intro didn't go according to plan, but hey, it's live.. haha..
I've had a little play with the sliders of my video software too, the background seemed a little boring. ha
Thanks for watching.

You can find the lyrics here

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Thanks for looking!
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