Thursday, May 14, 2020

Er carrattiere a vino - The Wine Carter

All'arba quanno spunta er sole d'oro
Rivedo Roma bella da lontano
Se sente cantà quarche rusignolo
E nà campana sona piano piano
Me sento n'armonia qui drento ar petto
E tutt'allegro monto sur caretto.

Roma fiorita e l'aria che tu manni è profumata
Me sento qui ner petto nà ferita che m'aricorda
Nina mia adorata

E quanno er sole sur tramonto cala
Senti quer venticello della sera
Le stelle colla luna fanno a gara
Pe risvejà er profumo de la tera
Li sonarelli che c'hai sur caretto dicheno a
Nannarè ecco Ninetto

Fiore d'amore ce sò tre cose che je vojo bene
Mi madre, Roma e tu nina der core,
mi madre Roma e tu nina der cor

Er carrattiere a vino - Romolo Balzani

Romolo Balzani wrote many songs that became classics between 1926 and 1935, several of which won the San Giovanni Festival of Roman Song.

At dawn when the golden sun breaks
I look at beautiful Rome again from a distance.
One hears some creeks singing
and a bell chimes gently.
I feel a harmony here inside my breast
and all the world happy, on my cart.

Flowery Rome and the air you send is perfumed.
I feel here in my breast an injury that reminds me of
Nina, my adored one.

And when the sun falls at sunset
you feel that little evening breeze,
the stars with the moon compete
to reveal the smell of the land.
The tiny bells that you have on the cart say to
Nannarè, behold, Ninetto.

Love flower, there are three things that I love:
my mother, Rome, and you Nina of my heart,
my mother, Rome, and you, Nina of my heart.

English translation © 2020 Dennis Criteser



Gabriella Ferri was released in 1966, Ferri's first album as a solo artist. About half of the songs are classics from the canzone romana tradition, and the other half were written by Ferri.