Transcript and Translation: Canzoni sarda intitulada po su disastru de Messina e Calabria

TRANSCRIPT:

CANZONI SARDA
Intitulada po su disastru de Messina e Calabria



1
Pobera Italia amira su vantu
De grandu allirghia e de vana gloria
Ses’arresultada avali de prantu
Spollada de gioia che mamma penoria
Bistia de riccu luttuosu mantu
De’ is fillus tus po esisti memoria
No porendi istcria iscriri cun dolori
Versus de amori depis ascultai

2
Depis ascultai suspirendi trista
Che única villa Reggiu e Messina
Prospera e sana mentris chi das bista
Beni coronara che alta regina
Non t’esti sparessia in tottu de vista
Da bis trasformara in grandi ruina
Sa manu Divina de su Siniori
Cun prusu rigori pò da visitai

3
Po da visitai de tempus passau,
non creu s’intera popolazioni,
po meritu giustu de dogna pecau,
digna di esse de punizioni,
però chiè castigu tanti dupplicau
prova nde donendi sa distruzioni,
po cumpassioni de coru dolenti
dogna viventi deppiri annotai

4
Deppiri annotai de comenti notu
Chi a fattu prangi su prus coru duru
Giustu s’annu millinoixentus ottu
Finas de dicembri su bint’ottu puru
De rottu Sicila e Calabria vottu
Chi d’ogna abitanti bivia siguru
Tristi e oscuru dannosu momentu
Cun zu penzamentu de no arribai

5
De no arribai improvvisamenti
Senza de donai bonu siniali
Comenti da tentu Lotu Espressamenti
A deppi fuiri po no intendi mali
Des’ira tremenda de s’Onnipotenti
Contrasa a Sodoma e Gomorra tali
Po chi aguali non sia castigu
Esempiu pigu po paragonai

6
Po paragonai comenti si biri
Genti de Sicilia e prus Calabresa
Senza de pensai e senza de isciri
Reus di essi senza de difesa
A sa mellus ora de pori durmiri
Cun tranquillirari e cun cuntentesa
Cun grandu sorpresa de su terremoto
E de mar’e mottu si bint’avisai

7
Si binti avisaia a s’attu presenti
Po deppi arrespundi a unu doveri
S’omini malvagiu disubidienti
Po chi vazza biri chi tenga poteri
De ingratitudi po essi possedenti
De sei e ottu candu no e meri
Bisongiu a zeri de superbirari
E sa vanirari po annientai

8
Po annientai chi biendi s’ira
Senza de bistiri e forza naturali
Circanta de pori salvai sa vira
De fronti aunu disastru fatali
Chi no a donau tempus a guira
Po deppi scampai donia mortali
Circhendi vitali passaggiu e logu
E mancu su logu lassara avanzai

9
Lassara avanzai passu po fuiri
A sa disperara popolazioni
In cussu momentu sugiti subiri
Immensa sventura e disolazioni
Oi sen’e contu genti sindi biri
Morta de sa propria abitazioni
De posizioni in tossu proibius
E mera firius preghendi a donai

10
Preghendi a donai a issus agiuru
Prostaus in pei de sa caridari
Donia nazioni chi ama siguru
Indistintamenti a s’umanidari:
de sa vida propria senz’e fai incuru
gi è prestendisì in terra e in mari
cun ispressirari di animu costanti
a s’agonizzanti po pori salvai

11
Po pori salvai e po donai cura
Donia italianu sé prestendi tali
Ma no a Sicilia po bolli in figura
Mancua Calabria po monumentali
Oi non funti attra che una sepoltura
E tui Italia seis unu spidali
Gravissimu mali senza de rimediu
Gi rind’è suzeriu e simili guai

12
Simili guai si non das connotu
Ti deppi serbiri po esperimentu
Prima de suzzeri custu terremotu
No poris negai chi avvisu ndas tentu
De chini distrui su mundu in tottu
E donia poteri e donia alimentu
E donia strumentu e armas de guerra
Sa malvagia terra po purificai

13
Po purificai in cussa di tremenda
Prima de ri biri sa valsa dottrina
Lassa e proibi de fai sienda
A sua de ranti genti piligrina
A chini ra postu in vista sa benda
Po no porri biri sa luxi Divina
Prestu determina e nara cumprontu
Veramenti contu chi deppis torrai

14
Chi deppis torrai a su Supremu Rei
No tenendi a manu codici divinu
Comenti rispundisi a sa Sua lei
Che su brigantaggiu est un’assassinu
De candu ri ses’inchinara po crei
Fillus de Gaiffa e fraris de Cainu
Prangendi cuntinu bandas mal’e peus
A peis de Deus finas a torrai

15
Finas a torrai coment’è torarra
Altra nazioni a peis de Gesusu
La chi rui puru sendi avvisara
Beni tranquilla a is brazzus susu
Po ri binirisci e po essi salvara
A su vaticanu no abitis prusu
E a fillus tusu dona s’Evangelu
Amori e zelu chi rant’atorrai

16
O Babbu celesti po ndi renni pena
Pregu nuovamenti de no castigai
Custa infelizi patria terrena
E solu a Bosu deppar’invocai
Sendi peccarora prus de Madalena
Interu perdonu po acquistai
Pasci e giustizia e grazia perena
E fira eterna po pori gosai.

TRANSLATION:

SARDINIAN SONG
Dedicated to the disaster of Messina and Calabria

Translated by Andrea Mura

1
Poor Italy admires the boast
Of great joy and vain glory
Now you’re full of tears
Stripped of joy like a suffering mother
Clothed in a rich and sorrowful mantle
Of your children to be remembered
Unable ("istcria" - NOT FOUND) write with pain
You must listen to the love sounds

2
You must hear sighing sad
What a unique city Reggio and Messina
Prosperous and healthy while those who have seen it
Crowned as a high queen
It has not disappeared from your sight
You see it turned into a great ruin
The Divine hand of the Lord
With more rigour to visit it

3
To visit it in the past times
I do not believe the entire population
For every sin’s fault
Worthy of punishment
But that’s a double punishment
The destruction is proving
For the compassion of a sore heart
Every living being must take note

4
Must take note, as it is known
That made the hardest heart cry
Precisely in the year nineteen and eight
At the end of
All of Sicily and Calabria made a vow
that every inhabitant lived safe
and that sad and dark moment
never come

5
That it didn’t come suddenly
Without giving any signal
How he got it ("Lotu Espressamenti" - NOT FOUND)
He had to run away not to feel the evil
Of the terrible wrath of the Almighty
Against Sodom and Gomorrah
That there may be no such punishment
I take an example to compare

6
To compare how you see
People of Sicily and also Calabrese
Without thinking and without writing
Guilty of being defenceless
At the best time to sleep
With peace and happiness
With great surprise from the earthquake
And the tidal wave awakens them

7
They are awakened to the present act
To have to answer a duty
The evil man disobedient
To show that he has the power
Possessor of ingratitude
Of six and eight when he is not master
("bisungiu a zeri" - NOT FOUND) of pride
And vanity to annihilate

8
To destroy him who sees wrath
Without clothes and natural forces
They try to save their lives
Facing a fatal disaster
Who has not given time to any guide
To have to save every mortal
To seek a vital passage or place
But you can’t go anywhere

9
Let the steps advance to escape
To the desperate population
At that time subject to
Immense misfortune and desolation
Today we can’t count the people we see
Death in their homes
In prohibitive situations
And many wounded praying for help

10
Praying for help
Prostrate at the feet of charity
Every nation that loves for sure
Without distinction all of humanity:
without taking care of their own lives
is lending itself by land and sea
expressing constant courage
to save the agonizing

11
To save and to heal
Every Italian is lending
But not because Sicily is beautiful
Nor for the monumentality of Calabria
That today I am nothing but a cemetery
And you Italy are a hospital
Gravissimo bad without remedy
No other such thing has happened to you

12
You have not known others like this
It must serve as an example
Before this earthquake hit
You can’t deny that you’ve had sightings
Who destroys the whole world
And every power and every food
And every instrument and weapon of war
To cleanse the wicked earth

13
To cleanse it in a terrible way
Before I saw you believe in false doctrine
It forbids and forbids to treasure
To many pilgrims
To him who has put the bandage before your eyes
Not to see the Divine light
Soon determine and report ("cumprontu" - NOT FOUND)
You have to account

14
You must answer to the Supreme King
Not having in his hands the divine code
Answer to His law
How brigandage is murder
Ever since you bowed down to believe
Sons of Caiaphas and Cain
Crying continually you go from bad to worse
Torneari at the feet of God

15
You will return as she returned
Another nation at the feet of Jesus
Be careful that you too are warned
Go quietly in his arms
To be blessed and saved
No longer living in the Vatican (NOT CLEAR)
And give the Gospel to your children
Love and zeal you will receive back

16
Heavenly Father, for you are sorry
Please again do not chastise
This unhappy earthly homeland
And only to you must I invoke
Being more sinful than Magdalene
Forgiveness to guarantee itself
Peace and justice and perpetual grace
And eternal life to be able to feel pleasure.