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Original lyrics
Vitti na crozza
Vitti na crozza supra nu cannuni
fui curiuso e ci vossi spiari
idda m'arrispunniu cu gran duluri
murivi senza un tocco di campani.
Si nni eru si nni eru li me anni
si nni eru si nni eru, un sacciu unni
ora ca sugnu vecchio di ottant'anni
chiamu la morti i idda m' arrispunni.
Cunzatimi, cunzatimi lu me lettu
ca di li vermi su manciatu tuttu
si nun lu scuntu cca lu me piccatu
lu scuntu all'autra vita a chiantu ruttu.
C'è nu giardinu ammezzu di lu mari
tuttu 'ntissutu di aranci e ciuri
tutti l'acceddi cci vannu a cantari
puru i sireni cci fannu all'amuri.
Submitted by 
Felice1101 on 2012-06-09
Felice1101 on 2012-06-09Last edited by 
Hampsicora on 2023-02-22
Hampsicora on 2023-02-22Translation
I Saw A Homeless
I saw a homeless person on top of a cannon,
I was curious and I wanted to ask.
She answered with great pain.
She died without a ring of a bell.
“My years, my years are gone.
My years, my years are gone and I don't know where.
Now when I am 80 years old,
I am calling death and it answered me:
“Make, make my bed
Because the worms will eat everything
If you don't repent in this life."
"I will repent in the next life with broken tears.”
There is a garden in the middle of the sea.
It is filled with oranges and flowers.
All the birds go to sing there,
Even the mermaids go to make love there.
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About translator
na crozza > a skull
di li vermi su manciatu tuttu > I am already all eaten by worms
si nun lu scuntu cca lu me piccatu > if I don’t pay here for my sin
lu scuntu all'autra vita > I will pay for it in the afterlife