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TRANSCRIPT:
Tuppi luppi Cu è? Sugnu Missiua,
Citati 'mmaliditta e svinturata.
Ca di lu Faru 'nsino a la marina,
Di nettu soru mia fui sdisulata.
Tra tutti li cità era putenti.
Era alligrizza u'ntra tutti li lati.
Ed ora m'aridussi 'ntempo uenti,
Comu 'na puvuredda strati strati?
1.
Catania – Suruzza bedda tu mi fai paura,
Assettati c'assai si strapazzata,
Cuntami comu fu tanta svintura,
Nun ti scantari chiù suruzza amata.
2.
Missina Prima ca parru soru affittuusa,
Prima ca cuntu tutti li pitigghi,
Quantu ti vasu suruzza amurusa,
Pi chiddu ca tu ai fattu a li me figghi.
Poviri figghi miei malasurlati,
lu sempri chiangiu pinzanna a vuatri,
E chlangiu quannu penzu a sia citati,
Ca v'ha fattu cchiu megghiu di nna matri
A lu iornu viutottu ammatinata,
Mentri lu suli nun'era nisciutu,
Vinni comu na forti cannunata
Ca mi distrussi tutta ntra un minutu!
Auchi lu mari mi fici tradimentu,
Ddu stissu mari ca m'amò tantanni,
Si sdivacau cu forti muvimentu,
E mi riddussi peggiu 'ntra l'affanni,
Tutti li figghi mei spinsirati,
Durmivanu trauquilli 'ntra lu lettu,
Foru la maggiurparti massagrati,
Pri nuddu soru mia ci fu rispettu.
3.
Catania – Nun chianciri accussi cara Missiua,
Pirchi 'ssu chiantu mi spezza lu cori,
Si tu pirdisti tutti li trisori,
Un iurnu turnirai sempri Rigina,
lu soru bebba non ti lassu mai,
Picchi gentili tu fusti ccu mia,
E ora ca tu si mmezzu li gual
Tuttu lu sangu meu li dugnu a tia.
4.
Missina – Chiddu c'a fattu non pozzu scurdari,
Picchi tu eri mala cumminata,
Ed ora iu ti vinni a disturbari,
Lassannuti di nettu vinignata!
Ccè' lu Sinnacu to cu l'assessuri,
Ca puvureddi sunnu genti rari,
M'hannu datu sta prova di valuri,
Ca mentri campu nuu mi li pozzu scurdari.
5.
Catania – Ma doppu stu disastru svinturatu
Nuddu suruzza ti desi nua manu,
A nuddu ti viristi a lu to latu
Nun vinni lu suldatu talianu?
Missina – Ah! soru bedda non minni parrari
A lu cuvernu ci ni 'mporta un zeru,
Pocu aiutu mi ni vitti arrivari
Di certi aggenti di locu straneru!
La Russia tu sai sempri sà dittu,
Ca è un paisi chinu di sdirrubbi
Ca ogni cristianu è 'mmalidittu,
E ntra iddi si sparanu pi lupi!
A stu paisi l'annu addimustratu,
Comu un paisi chinu di virgogna,
Mentri suruzza mia hai pruvatu,
Ca chiddu ca si rici e na minzogna?
È na minzogna si iddi sultantu,
Dettiru aiutu cu li vrazza soi
Ognadunu di chissi è un uomu santu
Ogni surdutu russu è un grandi eroi.
E puranchi lu 'nglisi senza ciatu,
Arriva stancu di luntana via,
E vinni 'nnaddu lagu svinturatu,
Unni ogni passu c'era l'agonia,
Vitti chianciri a tanti ma fratantu,
Nuddu suldatu nostru vinni appuntu,
Ca quasi quasi mi veni lu chiantu.
E sun ci penzu macari m'affrantu!
Aiutu! lu sintia ogni mumentu
Aiutu ca mi sentu suffucari,
Di fora iu sintiva ddu lamentu,
E nuddu aitu ci putiva dari.
Poviri figghi mei sutta ssi mura
Nissunu aiutu avistivu vuiatri
Comu a ddi figghi nati a la svintura,
Comu a ddi picciriddi senza madri
6.
Catania – Tu ai ragiuni si povira afflitta,
É storia ca la sacciu di tant'anni,
Cc'è lu Guvernu ca casca a l'addritta,
E nun si cura di li nostri affanni
Si tutta sta trimeuna mareggiata
Avissi statu 'ntra lu cuntinenti,
Tutta la flotta cu la nostra armata,
Avissi currutu 'ntempu nnenti.
Pri sta Sicilia bedda c'è maltratti
Nuddu ci pensa pri sta terra nostra,
In cuntinenti ci duna lu latti,
E annui ci duna sempri la culostra.
7.
Messina – Ancora soru mia parra ca sentu,
Tutti ddi vuci e mi veni lu chiantu.
Pensa ca iu nenti arrapprisentu,
Ca la citati mia è un campusantu.
Chiu di vinti mila 'nnuccenti,
La casa mi ristau comu un tabutu,
Eranu vivi e 'ntra li patimenti,
Mi morsiru addannati senza aiutu.
Spirannu tutti comu tanti cani,
Chiddi ca mancu eranu firiti,
Pri nun aviri tauticchia di pani,
Cu li labbra sicchi murivanu di la siti.
Lu cuvernu arrira pri mia svintura
Quannu si dava l'ultimu assaccuni
C'eranu ancora sani quattru mura,
E stavanu adupirannu li cannana
Vidi suruzza quantu è assassinu
Ca nun'appi pietà di lu me mali,
Doppu che mi spacciu lu me distinu.
Mi dava ancora un colpo di pugnali,
Ora sugnu mputiri di un suldatu.
Ca cumanna lu corpu e la parola,
Di punta e punta già mà circundatu,
E a li me figghi li stramanna fora.
Poviri figghi miei senza risettu,
Tutti contra di vui ficiru guerra,
Vi manca tuttu macari lu lettu,
É cu stu friddu vi curcati 'nterra.
8.
Catania - Missina tu nun ta scuraggiari
Nun perdiri li forzi e lu to ngegnu
Ha ntisu ca ti mannanu dinari,
Anchi li paisi fora regnu
Nta stu mentri sarai a lu primu statu
E ti ripigghi 'ntra na vota attunnu,
Lu portu sarà sempri fabbricatu,
pirchi e lu meggiu portu di lu munnu.
9.
Messina – Quantu si babba tu Catania cara,
Ca mi cunorti cu duci parrari,
Nun sal ca lunistà si fici rara
E l'omu unestu nun si po truvari!
Dinari ci ni sunnu senza misura,
E sugnu certa ca n'arrivirranno ancora
Ma ddoppu mi finisci a la chiusura,
Ca a mia mi tocca la scorcia di fora.
Chisti su cosi antichi ca si sannu,
Di quannu s'invintau la munita,
Ca toccanu dinari cu li manu
Si vannu impiccicannu ntra li ita.
E doppu sintirai comu fiuisci,
Ca a mia mi resta lobblicu purlatu,
Mentri c'alluttimata s'arricchisci
Qualchi ministru o qualchi diputatu.
10.
Catania - lu cridu ca tu dici 'na minzogua,
Missina sugnu certa ca ti 'nganni
Nun criu ca ci su tanti carogna,
Ca vonnu aggravari li to affanni,
Troppu fu la svintura soru mia
Daveru Diu si vosi vinnicari,
lu nun lu dicu p'affinniri a tia
Ma qualchi cosa ci la visti a fari.
11.
Missina – Chistu macari tu criri a sti cosi
Cridi ca fu cunnanna ca mi desi,
E iddu stissu allura picchi vosi,
Di sdirrubbari macari li chiesi.
E un picciriddu ca era 'nfasciatu,
C'ancora nun sapia mancu parrari,
Picchi morsi dda mmezzu scafazzatu
Dimmi, c'affisa ci putiva fari.
Nna picciridda ca mancu avia du uri,
Chi lu so zitu la via vasatu forti
E fratantu pruvau la stissa morti
Chi fa piccatu cu si fa lamuri.
Dui giuvani spusati nu jornu avanti,
Stettiru addinucchiuni 'ntra l'altaru.
A la giuvina spusa e lu so amanti;
Morti abbracciati fitti li truvaru.
Si tu cridi Catania ca cé Diu
Nun mi la diri chiù si cosi storti;
Nun mi la ddiri ca fu lu so castiu,
Dici cchiù tostu la me mala sorti.
12.
Catania – Dimmi chi ura è cara Missina
Videmu s'è rivatu lu direttu,
Palermu comu a ntisu sta ruvina,
Cridu ca currirà comu un firettu.
Stuiati l'occhi ca nostru fratuzzu,
Vidennuti accusi si po scantari,
E teni accura nun parrari ammuzzu
Ca vasinnò si pò sciarriari.
Tu sai suruzza mia quant'è fugusu,
Ca nun ci passa musca pi lu nasu,
Tu sai Palermu quant'è murritusu
E nun finisci bona na stu casu;
13.
Palermu – Missina soru mia disgraziata
Fu troppu brutta lu to amaru distinu,
lu mi partii di munti Pilligrinu
E ancora sugnu cu la panza sbututa
Dimmi suruzza mia, cuntami tuttu
Ch'è veru carristasti da li strati,
Ca lu lucali to 'nterra distruttu,
Cunortati cu mia ca sugnu tò frati.
Oh mischinedda comu si canciata,
Quantu mi pari bedda e spiritusa,
Tu fusti la città la cchiù annintuvata,
Tu fusti la città sempri amurusa.
Sciacca, 23 Gennaio 1909.
(Proprietà letteraria riservata all'Autore)
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TRANSLATION:
Tuppi lupi Who is it? I am Messina,
Cursed and unfortunate city.
From the Lighthouse to the sea,
Of course my sister was devastated.
Among all the cities it was powerful.
There was joy on all sides.
And now I'm going to fly in the wind,
Like a poor layered layer?
1.
Catania – Beautiful sister you scare me,
Sit down, you're so overwhelmed,
Tell me how it was so bad,
Don't be afraid anymore, dear sister.
2.
Messina Before I speak affectionate sister,
Before I count all the little things,
How much I kiss you, loving sister,
For what you have done to my children.
My poor children,
I always cry thinking of you,
And I cringe when I think of both cities,
That has done you better than a mother
Early in the morning,
While the sun was not out,
It came like a loud cannon
That would destroy me all in one minute!
The sea has betrayed me,
The same sea that loves me so much,
He undressed with a strong movement,
And I would reduce myself worse in the midst of trouble,
All my thoughtless children,
They slept quietly in bed,
They were mostly massacred,
There was no respect for any of my sisters.
3.
Catania – Don't cry so dear Messina,
Because this cry breaks my heart,
If you lost all the treasures,
One day you will always be Queen,
baby sister I will never leave you,
Because you were kind to me,
And now that you are in the middle of the gual
All my blood I give to you.
4.
Messina – I can't forget what you did,
Because you were badly combined,
And now I've come to disturb you,
Leaving you completely soaked!
There is the Mayor with the councillors,
That the poor are rare people,
They gave me this proof of value,
That while I live I can forget them.
5.
Catania – But after this unfortunate disaster
No sister gave you a hand,
You saw no one by your side
Didn't the Italian soldier come?
Messina – Ah! beautiful sister don't mind talking
The government needs a zero,
Little help came to me
By some foreign agents!
Russia you always know the saying,
That is a country full of ruins
That every Christian is cursed,
And among them they shoot for wolves!
To this country the year proven,
Like a country full of shame,
While my sister you have tried,
That what is said is a lie?
It is a lie if they alone,
They helped with their arms
Each of these is a holy man
Every Russian soldier is a great hero.
And even the breathless English,
He comes tired from far away,
And he came to an unfortunate lake,
Where every step there was agony,
I saw many crying but in the meantime,
None of our soldiers came on purpose,
That almost almost makes me want to cry.
And I'm thinking about it even in a hurry!
Help! I felt it every moment
Help I feel suffocated,
From outside I heard that cry,
And no help could be given.
My poor children under these walls
You guys had no help
Like those children born to misfortune,
Like those motherless children
6.
Catania – You are right if poor afflicted,
It's a story I've known for many years,
There is the Government that falls to the right,
And he doesn't take care of our troubles
If all this trimeuna tide
It would have been in the continent,
The whole fleet with our army,
I would have run in no time.
For this beautiful Sicily there are mistreatments
No one thinks of this land of ours,
On the continent it gives milk,
And every year he always gives us colostrum.
7.
Messina – Still my sister speaks that I hear,
All those voices and I get the tears.
He thinks I represent nothing,
That my city is a cemetery.
More than twenty thousand innocents,
The house remained like a coffin for me,
They were alive and in the sufferings,
They bit me without help.
Hoping all like many dogs,
Those who were not even wounded,
For not having a piece of bread,
With dry lips they died of thirst.
The government is coming for my misfortune
When the last blow was given
There were still four walls,
And they were using the cannana
See how murderous he is
That he had no mercy on my evil,
After I unpack my destiny.
He was still stabbing me,
I am now a soldier's deputy.
Who commands the body and the word,
From end to end already but surrounded,
And my children are strangling them out.
My poor children without receipt,
Everyone fought against you,
You miss everything, even the bed,
It is with this cold that you lie on the ground.
8.
Catania - Messina you will not be discouraged
Don't waste your strength and your ingenuity
Have you heard that they send you money,
Even countries outside the kingdom
In the meantime you will be in the first state
And you get back in a moment,
The port will always be built,
because it is the best port in the world.
9.
Messina – How stupid you are, dear Catania,
That you convert me with sweet speech,
Not that Monday became rare
And the honest man cannot be found!
There is money without measure,
And I'm sure they'll come back
But then I end up closing,
That I touch the outer bark.
These are ancient things that are known,
Since the invention of the coin,
They touch money with their hands
They are hanging between the ita.
And then you'll hear how it sounds,
That I remain publicly purlatu,
While it is enriched
Some minister or some MP.
10.
Catania - I believe you are telling a lie,
Messina I'm sure you're wrong
I don't think there are so many carrots,
They want to make your troubles worse,
Too much was my sister's misfortune
God really wanted to take revenge,
I'm not saying it to offend you
But something saw her doing it.
11.
Messina – You also believe in these things
He believes it was a sentence he gave me,
And he himself then because he wanted,
To demolish churches too.
And a child who was swaddled,
He didn't even know how to speak yet,
Because he bit that half-scafazzatu
Tell me, what affisa could do.
In a child who was not even two hours old,
That her boyfriend kissed her hard
And in the meantime he tried the same death
Who makes sin who makes love.
Two young people married a day earlier,
They knelt at the altar.
To the young bride and her lover;
Thick embraced deaths found them.
If you believe Catania that there is God
Don't tell me any more if you're wrong;
Don't tell me it was his punishment,
Say more quickly my bad luck.
12.
Catania – Tell me what time it is dear Messina
Let's see if the right has come,
Palermo as heard this ruin,
I believe he will run like a ferret.
Close your eyes, our brother,
Seeing you accused may be frightening,
And be careful not to speak in vain
That kiss can get upset.
You know, my sister, how fierce it is,
That no fly passes through his nose,
You know how dead Palermo is
And it doesn't end well in this case;
13.
Palermo – Messina my poor sister
Your bitter fate was too ugly,
I left Mount Pellegrino
And I'm still with a distended belly
Tell me my sister, tell me everything
That is true caristast from the streets,
That your whole place is destroyed,
Take care of me as your brother.
Oh poor thing, how it has changed,
How beautiful and witty she seems to me,
You were the most visited city,
You were the ever loving city.
Sciacca, January 23, 1909.
(Literary property reserved by the author)
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