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Sea pigeon

A bird was looking at me upside down,
it was morning and my grandpa was fishing,
But. who knows how, suddenly a flying fish
got entangled in the line.
 
I didn't know what to say when he,
happy for the just gained trophy,
said "Robè, this is a luxury good!
It's good for soup and it took a lot to pull it!"
 
"Therefore now take the bucket with the bird
and go back home on the sly"
The grandma expected sea brams and starfishes
and I showed up with a pigeon...
 
Oh, little pigeon...
that found the bad luck while flying,
pretend that nobody saw,
now I open your cell
but try to be careful... use your brain!
 
Instead you
you stay next to me for a day,
like who is slave before being born,
like a people without chains
but fond of its master.
 
Now that I think about that, me and you are alike
and like us plenty of people
remain imprisoned or die of hunger
because they take as good what is bad...
 
Oh, little pigeon...
that found the bad luck while flying,
pretend that nobody saw,
now I open your cell
but try to be careful... use your brain!
 
Instead you
you stay next to me for a day,
like who is slave before being born,
like a people without chains
but fond of its master.
 
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Palomma 'e Mare

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