Sale Lyrics

Sale, vulia mangiare cent'anni sale
pe 'na donna ca me disse su dissapitu

La mamma de la fia na bbona donna
cent' anni me paria la chiamu mamma
Ne l'aggiu dittu alla mamma e nu bole
ca me dumanni a mie ce t'aggiu fare

T' ha fattu li capiddi de Sant' Anna
lu nome te lu mise la Madonna

Fammene bedda mia fammene tante
ca una fazzu ieu vale pe tutte

mannaggia la ricchezza e ci la tene
ca pe la ricchezza bbandunai l'amore

Comu ole bbascia bbegna la furtuna
basta ca nu ne sona la campana.

Menai le razze e lu cielu tuccai
ma pijare le stelle nu potei

Pensa, disse lu sule, mò ce ffai
nu 'sai ca brusciane li raggi mei
Vitti e nu vitti ahimé, pacciu restai
vitti lu cielu pintu e poi no 'cchiui

SALT

Salt, I would like to eat salt for a hundred years
for a woman who called me bland

The mother of the girl, a "respectable woman"
a hundred years would pass before calling her Mother

I have spoken to mother and she says no
why do you ask this of me, what can I do?
You've done your hair like Saint Anne
the Madonna gave you your name

Make it difficult for me, my beauty, over and over
and I will pay you back with a single deed

d*** riches and he who has them
for riches I abandoned love

how fortune likes to come and go
just don't ring the bell for me

I raised my arms and touched the sky
but I couldn't catch the stars

Think, said the sun, what are you doing?
you don't know that my rays burn

I saw and I did not see, alas, I went crazy
I saw painted sky and then nothing more.