Cammina, cammina - He's Walking, Walking

Nc'oppa l'evera ca addore se ne scennene e' culure E cammina o vicchiariello sotta a luna Quante vote s'è fermato pe' parlà cu qualcheruno E nun c'è sta mai nisciuno che se ferma po' sentì E cammina, cammina vicino ò puorto E rirenno pensa a' morte Se venisse mò fosse cchiù cuntento Tanto io parlo e nisciuno me sento Guardando o mare penso a' Maria ca mo nun ce sta cchiù So sulo tre anni e ce' penso tutte e' sere Passo o' tiempo e nun me pare o vero E cammina, cammina vicino ò puorto E chiagnenno aspetta a' morte Sotta a' luna nun parla nisciuno Sotta a' luna nisciuno vo' sentì Cammina cammina © 1977 Pino Daniele Given Daniele's wanting to write songs like Luigi Tenco, I nominate "Cammina cammina" as the most Tenco-like song on the album. It's a lovely, wistful ballad also reminiscent of early Paul Simon.

Up from the grass, what fragrance, the colors dim down, and the old man walks under the moon. So many times he stopped to talk with someone, and there’s never anyone who stops to listen. And he’s walking, walking near the harbor, and laughing, he thinks of death. "If it came now I’d be more content, so much I talk and no one hears me." "Looking at the sea, I think of Maria, who is no longer now. It’s only three years and I think of her every night. Time passes and it doesn’t seem true to me." And he’s walking, walking near the harbor, and crying, he waits for death. Under the moon no one talks, under the moon no one wants to listen. English translation © 2020 Dennis Criteser Terra mia was released in 1977. The songs are in the local dialect of Naples and the music reflects a strong grounding in the centuries-old song tradition of the city - canzone napoletana - with an infusion of blues. The album was well received and several of its songs became mainstays in Pino Daniele's long career. Indeed, "Napule é" became a contemporary theme song of Naples; it's the only song on the album not arranged by Daniele himself. He said of the album that it "represents the birth of a new Neapolitan song, and also the social condemnations by a new generation that didn't accept compromises and that, through music, was able to express its own discontents." One of Daniele's ambitions at the time was to "write songs like Luigi Tenco."