Godfather II - Young Vito Andolini Singing

[gradszilla]

I remember when my grandfather used to sing this song to me as a lullaby when I was a kid

[DOGxxFART]

HE WENT THREW ALOT, THIS SCENE KILLS ME

[grein1994]

I'm sicilian, I live in palermo :) this song is beautiful and the dialect is correct :)

[lordvoldemort578]

@grein1994 Yeah they used a sicilian boy for the movie. Straight out Sicily for most of the Little Italy scenes. The people that actually lived there grew angry over time because the filming took so long, they were happy they left and were out of there.

[lordvoldemort578]

@lordvoldemort578 I typed that fast as hell.

[goodfellaOS]

I use to have this loop on the dvd for hours

[lordvoldemort578]

@goodfellaOS ive listened to this for like 20 times straight

[ftorina555]

O.K. So this little boy Vito 1st of all has an amazing voice. Why the director didn't make him sing more is beyond me. STUPID! I on the other hand, growing up as a Sicilian boy never understood why he was singing about a donkey that he lost. Then it dawned on me. When his family hid him in the basket that was attached to the donkey, while walking past the hitmen that were looking for him. I guess it was his donkey that saved his life. Music back when, had so much more meaning and truth!

[runrunforest1]

@ftorina555 vito is a mafia, he supposed to kill not sing..

[ColdCanOfCoke]

there is something disturbingly touching about this dvd menu. A young boy looking out the window; America, the land of opportunity. A poor small boy arrives from Sicily and eventually becomes a rich and powerful man. Yet this clip shows where he came from. I find it very powerful, personally.

[Guidtastic]

i like this song right here...i wish it was longer and on the soundtrack

[IndianaDylan]

I suppose the donkey he refers to in the song can be symbolic of his innocence lost, not only in his parents' death at the hand of corrupt ambitious men like he himself now feels he needs to be, but also his coming to America where he's even more disregarded than ever. He's thrown into a position where ambition and hard work literally means everything, it consumes his soul. This song becomes all the more powerful knowing it's a lament to his innocence, and a goodbye to his childhood.

[cotynita]

This is a sad infant song :(

[JudyLovesYou13]

@greekboy2k No, I'm pretty sure I've woken up to this.

[monmoloch]

Vitto Corleone was a wealthy and honourable Don... And that song was the only thing he had when he arrived to America.

[NiznijNovgorod]

All of those shit soundtracks of action movies try to be so cool, but this small 45 seconds long verse of small boy singing is alot stronger than any other.

[leeo21310]

pobrecillo...

[JudyLovesYou13]

@greekboy2k If I fall asleep watching this movie, I wake up hours later to this, and it scares me.

[fashizze]

who didnt feel sorry for little Vito Corleone .lost his parents and brother to cold blooded murder ..and left all by himself

[lordvoldemort578]

@fashizze I listened to this over 13 times in a row.

[marilson84]

this scene was shot in Trieste (Italy), in the basement of Ospedale Maggiore

[DuskoR777]

What a movie!Genius!

[justish1]

This song is as powerful as any soundtrack you could hear. Well, except for the first 2 movies in this series, of course :)

[tkbomber]

"I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart."

[EmicraniaMonAmour]

Beautiful.

[ferrucciog]

yeah, its feels fantastic... a new beginning..

[ferrucciog]

it breaks my heart into pieces and at the same time makes me believe all inmigrants, specially us, italians, have always a hope for a better life, no matters what the circumstances, country or people we may encounter.

[tkbomber]

@ferrucciog I just found my great Grandmother, Maria Scafiti, on the ellis website.

[DLTC3]

Is there any song with that version?

[nz7kjl]

people with big mouths also radiate that shit on youtube.

[nz7kjl]

to understand italian culture and what we've been thru, is to be italian. you could explain it till your blue in the face. un saluto a tutti gli italiani del mondo. particolarmente ai meridionali.

[mmaria180]

u sciccareddu! thats the song name but the original song souds diferent then the song from the godfather

[vitoitalo3690]

what is the name of the song plz someone reply

[kwstakious]

there is a full song?

[Cristalship88]

I once fell asleep watching GF II and this menu played all night, it scared the hell out of my mom at like 3 in the morning

[SHEEWO]

lonely soilder

[grannyBangproduction]

why is he in quarentine

[cameron789787]

He has smallpox

[desozu]

The name of this folk sicilian song is: "Lu sciccareddu", wich could be translated as "The donkey". Young Vito sings the first verse:

"Avia 'nu sciccareddu

ma veru sapuritu

a mia mi l'ammazzaru,

poveru sceccu miu."

Translation:

"I had a little donkey

truly cute (or funny).

They have killed it,

poor donkey of mine."

[MaikuxSAN]

Christ...that's morbid.

[desozu]

Yeah dude! But that song was the only thing that young Vito had, in that moment of sickness and pain for the death of his family, to get some consolation from a sicilian song for children. Poor boy!

[richmond436]

that sounds like a very stupid song

[desozu]

To understand it, you must know first something about sicilian culture. If you don't, indeed, that song would appear stupid for you. There are many feelings under that words and tones. Go deeper and you will see.

[actualityst]

Is the donkey a metaphor for something??

[desozu]

I can't be 100% sure, because I'm not sicilian, but I guess it 's a metaphor of friendship. The figure of a donkey as a friend is relatively common in european litterature. Remmember Juan Ramón Jiménez's "Platero and I"?

[domande12]

It would definitely help if you understood Italian

[28adrianpeterson]

you're the one stupid.....can't understand diffrent songs

[richmond436]

apparently you do, since you took the time to reply to it

[nz7kjl]

yeah it took so much time...

[richmond436]

why even bother, if you don't care...

[nz7kjl]

it's not what you said that bothers me, it's the fact that you wrote something that didn't need to be said in the first place. usually when i come across songs i don't like on youtube i just skip them. why bother making a comment in the first place. I know why, you're a troll.

[JackWhite52]

@desozu can u translate the WHOLE song for me? cuz i dont speak italian and no translater has helped me

[desozu]

@JackWhite52

Yeah buddy! No problem!

No translator has helped you because the song is not in Italian, but in Sicilian dialect.

But you have to wait 'till the weekend, 'cause now I'm completely immerse in my Master's thesis.

[JackWhite52]

@desozu thnx man i dont know how but i guess i owe u one :P

[DerekIsAwesome1494]

@desozu Sicilian isnt a dialect of Italian it is its own language

[Antralian]

@DerekIsAwesome1494 mmhhh...su questo ho dei dubbi. Secondo me è differente si dall'italiano standard, ma non così tanto (come ad esempio il sardo) da essere un linguaggio a se' stante

[SonniesOriginals]

@desozu Thanks so much for that translation :D

[frawlina]

does anyone knows this song?

PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

Thanks

[TenaciousMe1988]

Everytime I fall asleep watching this movie I wake up hours later to this.

Scares the shit out of me.

[JudyLovesYou13]

The same thing happened to me!

[AvengefulAngel]

@TenaciousMe1988 haha i feel you

[Manthing32]

@TenaciousMe1988

LOL I hate waking up to the menu of many dvds.

[italian00stugots]

@TenaciousMe1988

I know your comment is a bit old but i have to tell you i agree. I fel asleep with a girl i was seeing who loved this movie and we watched it and it restarted and woke me up and scared the hell out of me

[jmorgan118]

@TenaciousMe1988 And I thought I was the only one! lol

[DaDDy523iA]

@TenaciousMe1988 lol almost the same happens to me (without the shit-part:))

[gambini18]

@TenaciousMe1988

haha shit same!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cotynita]

@TenaciousMe1988 you are weird!

[CocaColaVanillaRox]

@TenaciousMe1988 Why the hell would you fall asleep during this movie in the first place?

[kidtwist411]

@TenaciousMe1988 lmao

[harikocka]

does anyone knows this song???

[LGLG69]

Oreste Baldini is the young boy.

[yianni14]

ye ditto sik tune

[malcolmdcwwed]

thanks for putting this up 5 stars