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Saturday evening
My father was exhausted
I've worked the whole day and I don't want to do anything.
My mother was cooking dinner
Her temper boiled over
All week long I’m stuck in this house, I want to go out
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You get to see people
I get to see this house
You can do what you want
But I want to go dancing
(chorus)
Let's Go, Razzietta, dancing
We're going, dancing, Razzietta
My mother was happier
Mingling with people
All the week long, stuck in this house waiting for the weekend
(pre-chorus)
The streets aren't made of money
Our expenses are many
The kids need something to eat
but then I want to go dancing!
(alternate chorus)
Everyone has to go dancing
Singing, dancing, doing
Give life a kiss
to make love
Everyone has to go dancing
Singing, dancing, doing
(chorus)
Let's go, Razzietta, dancing
We're going, dancing, Razzietta
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MOURICA
07:30
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English translation:
This is
a town, where
always you must ascend
Look at it, by night, by night this town
it looks like a Nativity scene created by artists
who gave all of their heart and spirit
to make it with this vista
The streets and the stairs that climb
look like silk under the lamp lights
they run like so many children
while the enchanted moon looks on
Everywhere you turn, you see stone walls
where capers and prickly pears are growing.
When the summer comes, and the sun ripens them,
it is a paradise full of stars
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'A STACIUNI
06:29
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The poem basically says, take away someone's passport, the table where they eat, the bed they sleep in, and throw them in jail, and they are still free. But take away their language and they become enslaved. The poet compares disappearing dialect to having money you can't spend,
or a song in a cage with its wings cut off.
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I have dollars
But I can't spend them
Jewels
But I can't give them as gifts
A song, in cage
With its wings cut off
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PIRATI A PALERMO
05:12
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FAVI AMARI
04:59
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SPUNTA LU SOLE
01:35
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CANTU A TIMUNI
03:41
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CIALOMI
00:51
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MARZEMEMI
07:18
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Michael Occhipinti & The Sicilian Project Toronto, Ontario
“A triumphant recording on many levels” Michael G. Nastos Billboard
Michael
Occhipinti’s Sicilian Jazz Project dazzles audiences with its mix of Sicilian folk & jazz, global grooves, & chamber music, with old world Sicily meeting the global sound of Toronto. The group received a 2009 JUNO Award nomination (Canada’s Grammy) & the prestigious Ragusani nel Mondo Award
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