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Vitti 'na crozza
(I saw a skull)
(I saw a skull)
Music by Franco Li Causi,
Lyrics by unknown author
Lyrics by unknown author
Salvatore Di Paola
(1937 - 2010)
sings
(1937 - 2010)
sings
In 1950, director Pietro Germi began shooting his film "Path of Hope" (Il cammino della speranza). In Agrigento, Sicily, he met composer Franco Li Causi and asked him to compose a soundtrack for the film. None of Li Causi's versions were approved by Germi until he heard the verses "Vitti 'na crozza" by an unknown author, recited by the miner Giuseppe Cibardo Bisaccia during the filming. Amazed by the folk poetry, Germi asked Li Causi to compose music for it, and this song became the film's soundtrack.
There are two versions of text.
Vitti 'na crozza supra 'nu cannuni
E cu 'sta crozza mi misi a parlari.
Idda m'arrispunniu cu 'n gran duluri:
"Iu morsi senza 'n toccu di campani".
Prestu passaru tutti li me' anni,
Passaru e si nni eru 'un sacciu unni.
Ora ca sù arrivatu ad uttant'anni,
Chiamu la crozza e nuddu m'arrispunni.
Chi n'aju a fari cchiù di la mè vita?
Nun sugnu bonu cchiù pi travagghiari.
'Sta vita è fatta tutta di duluri
E d'accussì nun pozzu cchiù campari.
Cunzatimi cu ciuri lu mè lettu
Picchì a la fini già sugnu arriduttu.
Vinni lu tempu di lu mè rizzettu,
Lassu 'stu beddu munnu e lassu tuttu.
E cu 'sta crozza mi misi a parlari.
Idda m'arrispunniu cu 'n gran duluri:
"Iu morsi senza 'n toccu di campani".
Prestu passaru tutti li me' anni,
Passaru e si nni eru 'un sacciu unni.
Ora ca sù arrivatu ad uttant'anni,
Chiamu la crozza e nuddu m'arrispunni.
Chi n'aju a fari cchiù di la mè vita?
Nun sugnu bonu cchiù pi travagghiari.
'Sta vita è fatta tutta di duluri
E d'accussì nun pozzu cchiù campari.
Cunzatimi cu ciuri lu mè lettu
Picchì a la fini già sugnu arriduttu.
Vinni lu tempu di lu mè rizzettu,
Lassu 'stu beddu munnu e lassu tuttu.
перевод Чернега Натальи
I saw a skull on the cannon,
And then I started talking to it.
The skull told me with great sorrow,
"I died without hearing the toll of the bells".
My years flew by so quickly,
Swept away to nowhere I know.
Now that I've reached eighty,
I call out to that skull, but no one answers me.
What else is there left for me to do?
I'm good for nothing now.
This life is nothing but suffering,
And I don't want to go on like this.
Adorn my bed with flowers,
My time on this earth is coming to an end.
It's my time to go,
I'm leaving this beautiful world, and everything in it.
And then I started talking to it.
The skull told me with great sorrow,
"I died without hearing the toll of the bells".
My years flew by so quickly,
Swept away to nowhere I know.
Now that I've reached eighty,
I call out to that skull, but no one answers me.
What else is there left for me to do?
I'm good for nothing now.
This life is nothing but suffering,
And I don't want to go on like this.
Adorn my bed with flowers,
My time on this earth is coming to an end.
It's my time to go,
I'm leaving this beautiful world, and everything in it.
translated by Natalia Chernega
