Paul McCartney: Acoustic guitar, Co-producer, Piano, Vocals Alan Broadbent: Orchestration Keith Smith: Engineering assistant Pedro Eustache: King bansori indian flute Greg Kurstin: Producer Steve Orchard: Engineering Mark ‘Spike’ Stent: Mixing Michael Freeman: Mixing assistant Alex Pasco: Engineering Billy Bush: Engineering Julian Burg: Engineering Matt Tuggle: Engineering assistant Paul Pritchard: Engineering assistant Derek Stockwell: Mixing assistant Kyle Stevens: Engineering assistant Al Schmitt: Engineering Steve Genewick: Engineering assistant Vanessa Freebairn-Smith: Cello Jodi Burnett: Cello
Sometimes songs just come to you, sort of late at night. And I’ve got a piano at home,
and in actual fact this particular piano happens to be my dad’s old piano, so it’s special to me.
And I was sitting there one night
and I just started to find these chords that are the beginning of Hand In Hand.
And it’s basically a love song.
And as I wrote it, I was imagining me and Nancy about to go through life hand in hand.
It was written in the early stage of our relationship.
And then I started to think, ‘Yeah, well, this is a lot of people.’
You know, there are millions of people in that situation,
where they’ve got someone they love,
and they want to go through life hand in hand, and
to be a partnership of some kind.
And it was nice, actually, when we recorded it, we had two lady cellists.
That’s all there is on there beside the band.
And it was very sweet ’cause at the end of it we liked what they’d done, we said that’s great, thank you.
And one of them sort of said, ‘Oh, you know what?
I’m getting married for the second time, and I’m a little bit nervous,
but this song has made me think it’s going to work out all right.’
So we though, that’s it! You know, that’s a reason, right there, for writing that song.
Paul McCartney
Quiero contarte mi historia (vida)
Vamos a llevar esto a otro nivel, tú y yo
Quiero darte mi palabra
déjame que te haga una promesa
Intentaré que esto ocurra (cumpla)
puedes estar segura
Codo con codo (juntos)
Caminar por la vida
y hacer nuestros planes
de la mano (juntos)
Déjame entrar en tu luz
Te quiero mostrarte mi pasión
Podemos hacernos felices el uno al otro
si hacemos las cosas bien
De la mano
caminar por la vida
Y hacer nuestros planes
juntos
Tomarnos nuestro tiempo
y plantarle cara (a la vida, al tiempo)
Podemos hacer realidad este sueño
Solo si nosotros queremos
Podemos hacer realidad este sueño
Solo cuando seamos conscientes que
todo en la vida está planeado
podremos hacer realidad este sueño
Quiero darte mi corazón
Quiero contarte mi historia
Vamos a llevar esto a otro nivel, tú y yo
De la mano
Caminar por la vida
Y hacer nuestros planes
Juntos
De la mano