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Thread #169209   Message #4139817
Posted By: Joe Offer
22-Apr-22 - 03:30 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Mudcat singaround songs NOT in English
Subject: ADD: Na sera 'e maggio
Gayle Wade sang this, I think on April 18. She asked me to post the lyrics. Thanks, Gayle.
NA SERA 'E MAGGIO

Quanno vien'a 'appuntamento
guarde 'o mare, guard’altronne,
si te parlo nun rispunne,
staje distratta comm'a che.
Io te tengo dint’o core,
sóngo sempe 'nnammurato
ma tu, invece, pienze a n'ato
e te staje scurdanno 'e me

Quanno se dice: "Sí!"
tiènelo a mente
Nun s'ha da fá murí
nu core amante
Tu mme diciste: "Sí!" na sera 'e maggio
e mo tiene 'o curaggio 'e mme lassá?!

St'uocchie tuoje nun só' sincere
comm'a quanno mme 'ncuntraste,
comm'a quanno mme diciste:
"Voglio bene sulo a te "
E tremmanno mme giuraste,
cu na mano 'ncopp'o core:
"Nun se scorda 'o primmo ammore! "
Mo te staje scurdanno 'e me

Quanno se dice: "Sí!"
tiènelo a mente
Nun s'ha da fá murí
nu core amante
Tu mme diciste: "Sí!" na sera 'e maggio
e mo tiene 'o curaggio 'e mme lassá?!
ONE EVENING IN MAY

When you come to our meeting
You look at the sea, you look away [from me]
If I speak to you, you don’t reply,
Your thoughts are somewhere else.
I hold you in my heart,
I’m still in love with you,
But you, on the other hand, are thinking of someone else
And you’re forgetting about me.

When you say ‘Yes’
Remember this
You shouldn’t kill
a loving heart.
You said ‘Yes’ to me one evening in May
And now you have the audacity to leave me!

Those eyes of yours are not sincere
As they were when you met me,
As they were when you told me
“I love only you”
And, trembling, you swore to me
With a hand upon your heart:
“First love is never forgotten!”
But now you are forgetting me.

When you say ‘Yes’
Remember this
You shouldn’t kill
a loving heart.
You said ‘Yes’ to me one evening in May
And now you have the audacity to leave me!
Mario Lanza recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFIAwWNb72g
The 1937 Neapolitan song "'Na Sera 'e Maggio" (One Evening in May) by Giuseppe Cioffi [1901-1976] (music) and Gigi Pisano [1889-1973] (lyrics). Recorded by tenor Mario Lanza in Rome in December 1958. Franco Ferrara, conductor.

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