120 (D-11) Golden Gate Bridge

120 (D-11) The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world when it was completed during the year 1937, and has become one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, and of the United States. There are now eight other bridges which have surpassed the span length of the Golden Gate Bridge. It still has the second longest suspension bridge main span in the United States, after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City.

Listen to Judy Garland sing: "San Francisco...Open your Golden Gate ...." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSr47vIUz94

(English is difficult here, but enjoy the song.)

I never will forget, Mmmm...Jeanette MacDonald
Just to think of her, it gives my heart a pang
I never will forget, how that brave Jeanette
Just stood there in the ruins and sang, and sang...

San Francisco, open your Golden Gate
You'll let nobody wait outside your door
San Francisco, here is your wanderin' one
Saying I'll wander no more.

Other places only make me love you best
Tell me you're the one in all the golden west
San Francisco, I'm coming home again
Never to roam again...

San Francisco, right when I arrive
I really come alive...
And you will laugh to see me,
Perpendicular, hanging on a cable car

San Francisco, let me beat my feet
Up and down Market Street
I'm gonna climb Nob Hill, just to watch it get dark
From The Top of the Mark

There's Brooklyn Bridge, London Bridge,
And the Bridge of San Louis Rey
But the only bridge, that's a real gone bridge,
Is the bridge across the bay

San Francisco, I'm coming home again,
Never to roam again, by gum
San Francisco, I don't mean Frisco
San Francisco, here I come!

Jane

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VOCABULARY:

span = "travée"

"real gone" and "by gum" in the song are old slang expressions