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Original lyrics
Brigante se more
Avimme pusate chitarre e tammure
pecchè sta musica s'ha da cagnà.
Simme brigant' e facimme paura
e ca sch'uppetta vulimme cantà
e ca sch'uppetta vulimme cantà.
E mo cantam' 'sta nova canzone
tutta la gente se l'ha da 'mparà.
Nun ce ne fott' do' re Burbone
a terra è a nosta e nun s'ha da tuccà
a terra è a nosta e nun s'ha da tuccà.
Tutt' e païse da Bas'l'cat'
se so' scetat' e mo stann' a luttà
pure a Calabbria mo s' è arravutat'
e 'stu nemic' o facimm' tremmà
e 'stu nemic' o facimm' tremmà.
Chi ha vist' o lupo e s' è mise paur'
nun sape büon qual' è 'a ver'tà
o ver' lup' ca magn' e creatur'
è o piemuntese c'avimm' 'a caccià
è o piemuntese c'avimm' 'a caccià.
Femm'na bell' ca dat' lu cor'
se 'stu brigant' u vulit' salvà
nun c' cercat' scurdat'v' o nome
chi ce fa a guerra nun tien' a pietà
chi ce fa a guerra nun tien' a pietà.
'Omm' s' nasc' brigant' s' mor'
ma fin' all'utm' avimm' a sparà
e se murim' menat' nu fior'
e 'na bestemmia pe' 'sta libertà
e 'na bestemmia pe' 'sta libertà.
Submitted by 
Gyps Fulvus on 2016-04-04
Gyps Fulvus on 2016-04-04Last edited by 
Hampsicora on 2022-11-05
Hampsicora on 2022-11-05Translation
Die a brigand
We laid down our guitars and our drums
because this music has to change.
We are bandits1, we are scary
and we want to sing with our rifles
and we want to sing with our rifles.
Now we sing this new song
everyone has to learn it.
We don't give a damn about the Bourbon king2
the land belongs to us, nobody shall touch it,
the land belongs to us, nobody shall touch it.
All the villages of Basilicata
have woken up and are fighting now,
Calabria3 too is up in arms
and we make our enemy tremble,
and we make our enemy tremble.
Those who saw a wolf and got scared
don't know the truth yet.
The real wolf that eats children
is the Piedmontese4 we have to throw out,
is the Piedmontese we have to throw out.
Beautiful woman who gives her heart
if you want to keep the bandit safe
don't go looking for him, forget his name,
those who wage war on us have no mercy,
those who wage war on us have no mercy.
Born a man, die a brigand
but we have to fight until the very end
and if we die, bring us a flower
and a curse for this freedom,
and a curse for this freedom.
- 1. Briganti in Southern Italy started as unorganized highwaymen and developed into a form of political resistance against the Bonapartist rulers first and later against the Kingdom of Sardinia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigandage_in_Southern_Italy_after_1861
- 2. King of the Two Sicilies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Two_Sicilies
- 3. Basilicata and Calabria are regions of Southern Italy
- 4. Soldiers of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which annexed the rest of the Italian Peninsula between 1859 and 1870
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