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Translation
Chop the rooster's head off
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you on the back,
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you.
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you on the back,
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you.
Ah… My maid, my maid, my maid, maid…
Tell me what you sense; tell me what you feel.
Ah… If the four moors still hold your land 1
Tell me what you sense; tell me what you feel.
And so, chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you on the back,
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you.
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you on the back,
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you.
Ah… My brother, my brother, my brother, brother…
Tell me what you sense; tell me what you feel.
Ah… If between you and the foreigner, there's still a see2,
Tell me if that's true and you don't want to return.
Ad you too, chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you on the back,
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you.
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you on the back,
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you.
Ah… Salty land3, burned land: an abyss [containing all the] pains.
You – whipped by the winds – cannot say a word.
Ah… like a fool I'd like [the following thing] was true:
Each hand opening your wombs Was the one that you gave birth to.
And so, chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you on the back,
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you.
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you on the back,
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you.
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you on the back,
Chop the rooster's head off if it pecks you.
- 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Sardinia ?
- 2. pharaprase of the saying “Tra il dire ed il fare, c'è di mezzo il mare” that is literally translated as “Between the things that you say and the things that have to be done, there's a whole sea”, meaning that there's always a differnce between the claims and the actual job that is done.
- 3. Where nothing could grow, as in the ancient Chartago.
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jackiechan on 2017-03-04
jackiechan on 2017-03-04Last edited by jackiechan on 2023-10-25
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