A Whiter Shade Of Pale

"A Whiter Shade of Pale",conocida en castellano como "Con su blanca palidez" fue el mayor éxito de la banda británica Procol Harum. El sencillo fue Nº 1 en el Reino Unido en 1967,permaneciendo seis semanas en el ránking.

La canción fue compuesta por Gary Brooker, Keith Reid y Matthew Fisher y ha sido versionada en muchas ocasiones desde entonces.

Procol Harum - "A Whiter Shade of Pale"


We skipped a light fandango,
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor.
I was feeling kind of seasick,
But the crowd called out for more.
The room was humming harder,
As the ceiling flew away.
When we called out for another drink,
The waiter brought a tray.

And so it was that later,
As the miller told his tale,
That her face at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

She said there is no reason,
And the truth is plain to see
That I wandered through my playing cards,
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast.
And although my eyes were open,
They might just as well have been closed.

And so it was later,
As the miller told his tale,
That her face at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

Aparte de la original, creo que la mejor versión que he oído, es la de la exquisita Annie.

Annie Lennox - "A Whiter Shade of Pale"