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Thread #89696   Message #1693676
Posted By: GUEST,Tom Brady
14-Mar-06 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: Italian Musical Instruments
Subject: Italian Musical Instruments
We all know how maddening it is to have a piece of unidentifiable music running through one's head. Well, I've got one now.
It's a song in Italian, but was made popular a number of years ago in America by a singer (Tony Bennet, maybe?). All I can give is a phonetic transcription (which is what keeps me from Googling it). It goes:
E goombare, che wa sonare.
Que si sora, o mandolino (other instruments go here in other verses)
ma como si sono.
o mandolino
tinga, tinga mandolino.
Tippiti, tippiti, ta.

Anyone remember that one?