Sorry for my bad english...

Sorry for my bad english......I'm tryng to learn it. If you have any suggestions or any corrections to make on what I write, feel free to let me know .....

mercoledì 11 gennaio 2012

memories ...


I would mention it to me in this way, Fabrizio .... cheerful, smiling, his hair in the wind ...
Death has the power to freeze some pictures ....
13 years, and in these 13 years we have witnessed the "beatification" of Fabrizio De Andre'..... virtually everyone has written, sung, analyzed, recorded, titled, stolen.
I do not feel, now, and maybe there I'll have the never, to stretch my memories as a showcase of used clothes.
"Call a spade memories, turn the page and ends in glory"


 
PETER’S WAR

You lie slain, in a cornfield sleeping,
and neither the rose or the ladytulip
are watching you in the shadow of ditches,
but thousands of blood-red poppies.

"Along the banks of this country stream
I’d like to spy the silver pike swimming,
and not a suite of soldiers’ corpses
brought with the stream, like dead branches."

You said so, and it was a cold winter,
and, just like others, you’re bound to hell
marching so sadly to your sad duty,
the wind’s spitting snow in your face.

Stop your steps, Peter, stop your steps now!
Allow the wind to fondle your body,
you bear the voice of all the fallen
who gave their lives for a wooden cross.

But you didn’t hear them, and time passed by
with the seasons at a java step
and so you were ready to cross the border
in a warm and bright spring day.

And walking on shouldering your soul
you noticed a man down there in the valley
walking in the same sad mood as you
but with a uniform of a different colour.

Shoot him, Peter, shoot at him now!
Shoot again to make sure he’s dead,
until he falls dead to the ground
and covers his own blood deadly wounded.

"And if I aim at his front or at his heart
I’ll leave him only the time to die,
but I shall have plenty of time
to look in the eyes of a dying man."

And while you are so kind to him,
he turns around, sees you and gets frighten’d;
he brings his rifle to firing position
and doesn’t repay you for your favour.

You fell to the ground without even a cry
and you noticed in no less than a moment
that you’d not have enough time
to beg pardon for all your sins.

You fell to the ground without even a cry
and you noticed in no less than a moment
that your life had be put an end,
and that you’d never come back home.

"Oh Jenny darling, to die in May
one needs much and maybe too much courage.
Oh Jenny darling, I’d like best
to go to hell in a cold winter day."

And while the corn was listening to your words
you held your rifle clenched in your hands,
you held your words frozen in your mouth
that would never have melt in the sunrays.

You lie slain, in a cornfield sleeping,
and neither the rose or the ladytulip
are watching you in the shadow of ditches,
but thousands of blood-red poppies.


Re-        La7                Re-                Sol-     Do7     Fa
Dormi sepolto in un campo di grano, non e' la rosa, non e' il tulipano 

               La7               Re-              Sol- La7      Re-
che ti fan veglia dall'ombra dei fossi ma sono mille papaveri rossi. 

               La7                           Re-          Sol-           Re-
"Lungo le sponde del mio torrente voglio che scendano i lucci argentati, 

                  Do7         Fa                 La7           Re-
non piu' i cadaveri dei soldati portati in braccio dalla corrente". 

           La7            Re-           Sol-               Re-                Do7
Cosi' dicevi ed era d'Inverno e come gli altri, verso l'inferno te ne vai triste 

              Fa                       La7       Re-
come chi deve ed il vento ti sputa in faccia la neve.


[Fabrizio De Andrè - La Guerra Di Piero]

Fermati Piero, fermati adesso, lascia che il vento ti passi un po' addosso,
dei morti in battaglia ti porti la voce, chi diede la vita ebbe in cambio una croce.
Ma tu non lo udisti ed il tempo passava con le stagioni a passo di "java"
ed arrivasti a varcar la frontiera in un bel giorno di Primavera.
E mentre marciavi con l'anima in spalle vedesti un uomo in fondo alla valle
che aveva il tuo stesso identico umore ma la divisa di un altro colore. 

Sparagli Piero, sparagli ora e dopo un colpo sparagli ancora,
fino a che tu non lo vedrai esangue cadere in terra a coprire il suo sangue.
"E se gli sparo in fronte o nel cuore soltanto il tempo avra' per morire,
ma il tempo a me restera' per vedere, vedere gli occhi d'un uomo che muore".
E mentre gli usi questa premura quello si volta, ti vede, ha paura ed ibracciata l'artiglieria
non ti ricambia la cortesia. 

Cadesti a terra, senza un lamento e ti accorgesti in un solo momento
che il tempo non ti sarebbe bastato a chieder perdono per ogni peccato.
Cadesti a terra, senza un lamento e ti accorgesti in un solo momento
che la tua vita finiva quel giorno e non ci sarebbe stato ritorno.
"Ninetta mia, crepare di Maggio ci vuole tanto, troppo coraggio.
Ninetta bella diritto all'Inferno avrei preferito andarci in Inverno".
E mentre il grano ti stava a sentire dentro le mani stringevi il fucile,
dentro la bocca stringevi parole troppo gelate per sciogliersi al sole. 

Dormi sepolto in un campo di grano, non e' la rosa, non e' il tulipano
che ti fan veglia dall'ombra dei fossi ma sono mille papaveri rossi.
 
 Fabrizio De Andrè - La guerra di Piero
 
 

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