You can find the Italian lyrics here, along with a very jolly arrangement of the tune. I used to listen to this on "Children's Favourites" when I was a kid! (I bet you did too, Roger?) I always wnodered what the words meant -- I do know thery were written to celebrate the opening of a funicular railway, hence the funny name of the song. Obviously, the English version is nothing at all to do with the orioginal! Can anyone do a translation?

Steve