Subject: LIR ADD: Il povero soldato (trad. ital., +RA)
From: Ezio
CLICK TO LISTEN The quality of the sound is not outstanding, but please consider that it comes from an original 78rpm remastered on CD with no retouch. Moreover, the chorus' beauty is bound to 'pianissimo' and 'fortissimo', and this is very difficult to reproduce with the compressed dynamic (to reduce file size) used on the web.
Format=Real Audio 3.0, 28.8 Mono, full response * Time=1:32 * Size=185kb
(available on line for a few days only - sorry)
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This is song was very popular during the 1st World War.
Performer: CORO SAT, Trento, Italy
Historical Recording, circa 1935
IL POVERO SOLDATO
(Lyrics: C. Pascarella - Tune: A. Rubino) La dolorosa istoria che vo' contarvi or ora
e' storia che addolora la vita militare.
Il povero soldato vien condannato a morte
Lontan de la consorte, vicino al colonel.
La moglie tosto il seppe, n'ebbe grande dispiacere
e corse dal furiere la grazia ad implorar
La pratica trasmessa segue la gerarchia
e de la fureria passa in maggiorita'
Giunto il fatal mattino per esser fucilato
egli si da' malato e dice che non puo'
TRANSLATION
THE POOR SOLDIER
The sad history I'm going to tell
Is the history which grieves the military life.
The poor soldier is sentenced to death
Far from his spouse, beside the colonel
The wife soon got to know, and was very sorry for it
She ran to the quartermaster sergeant to beg for mercy
The paper followed the hierarchy
and from the quartermaster was trasmitted to the regimental office.
The fatal morning of the shooting
He says he's ill and he says he can't move
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submitted by: e.b.