Lacrime Napulitane - Massimo Ranieri w/Translation

This is a passionate song about a man that has left his home in Naples to come to America.
He writes his mother about how desperately lonely he is .
How he misses his family and how it is so painful to be away from home.
And all for what? For money.
The money he needs to support his family.
He cries - the cost is great. His children miss their mother who has returned to Italy.
Oh how he wishes he could be under the skies of his beloved Naples. He says: "This bread I Must Swallow is Bitter"
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Here we are, almost a hundred years later.
I don't think we can conceive just how hard it was.
To pick up ones life and belongings and travel far away to a strange land with a strange language and try to build a new life.
THAT WAS COURAGE.
We owe them so much.
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eccoci qua quasi cent'anni dopo... credo che noi non possiamo concepire quanto possa essere stato duro... caricarsi le proprie cose e le proprie vite per fare un viaggio così lungo per una strana terra con una strana lingua, e provare a costruire una nuova vita. QUESTO ERA CORAGGIO. noi gli dobbiamo tantissimo.

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LACREME NAPULITANE BY Bovio & Buongiovanni
(Neapolitan Tears)
Mia cara madre,
sta pe' trasí Natale,
e a stá luntano cchiù mme sape amaro....
Comme vurría allummá duje o tre biangale...
comme vurría sentí nu zampugnaro!...

A 'e ninne mieje facitele 'o presebbio
e a tavula mettite 'o piatto mio...
facite, quann'è 'a sera d''a Vigilia
comme si 'mmiez'a vuje stesse pur'io...

E nce ne costa lacreme st'America
a nuje Napulitane!...
Pe' nuje ca ce chiagnimmo 'o cielo 'e Napule,
comm'è amaro stu ppane!

Mia cara madre,
che só, che só 'e denare?
Pe' chi se chiagne 'a Patria, nun só niente!
Mo tengo quacche dollaro, e mme pare
ca nun só' stato maje tanto pezzente!

Mme sonno tutt''e nnotte 'a casa mia
e d''e ccriature meje ne sento 'a voce...
ma a vuje ve sonno comm'a na "Maria"...
cu 'e spade 'mpietto, 'nnanz'ô figlio 'ncroce!

E nce ne costa lacreme st'America...ece

Mm'avite scritto
ch'Assuntulella chiamma
chi ll'ha lassata e sta luntana ancora...
Che v'aggi''a dí? Si 'e figlie vònno 'a mamma,
facítela turná chella "signora".

Io no, nun torno...mme ne resto fore
e resto a faticá pe' tuttuquante.
I', ch'aggio perzo patria, casa e onore,
i só carne 'e maciello: Só emigrante!

E nce ne costa lacreme st'America...ece
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My dear mother,
Christmas is approaching,
being away has a bitter taste ...
How I would like to see the fireworks ...
and hear the music...

to see my children in the crib
and put food on my plate ...
on Christmas Eve,
as if I were there with you ...

there are tears in this America
we Neapolitans mourn the sky of Naples,
how bitter is this bread!

My dear mother,
why is this, what is this money?
We mourn for our country, we are nothing!
Now I have a few dollars, but I think
that have never been so poor!

I dream every night of my home
and I hear the voices of my children ...
but you dream as a "Mary" ...
with swords in your chest,
facing your son on the cross!

there are tears in this America
we Neapolitans mourn the sky of Naples,
how bitter is this bread!

I have written that little Assunta
asks, why has [her mother] left
and gone so far away?
What can I say?
The children want their mother,
make her return.


Not me, I will not return I will stay away
to work for everyone.
I have lost my country, my home, my honor,
I am a meat slaughter: I am an immigrant!

there are tears in this America
we Neapolitans mourn the sky of Naples,
how bitter is this bread!
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[VengadorCiaracatto]

To all the LEGAL? why dont U dedicate this song to your facism? V F C!!

[reduxmisc]

@VengadorCiaracatto Facist ? Well does that make you a socialist? I have no problem with people coming to America. In fact I embrace it. But I do think that everyone should get in line like everybody else. After all isn't that what equality is about ? All the early immigrants did, but now nobody gives a shit about anybody but themselves.

Me First... is the only credo,,,,

[bjorn2lose]

I remember hearing about a recorded interview of a young Sophia Loren. When asked if she was going to raise her children to speak English or Italian, she said neither--she was going to raise them to speak Neapolitan.

[Jiulian95]

se l'italia non fosse stata "unita" questa canzone non sarebbe mai esistita

[vitomona]

mi associo a chi parla di colonizzazione,adesso che non si fa più repressione ai patrioti(BRIGANTI) subiamo ancora repressione morale W lo spirito e l'ingegno NAPOLETANO che non si arrende mai e w il ns Meridione che ci fa sentire un pò Napoletani.

[1957804]

La vòce e le canzoni di Massimo Ranieri, fànno onòre al tesòro della canzone Napoletana e Italiana nel mondo. Complimènti, bràvo e ancòra bràvo!  Ciào a tutti: Vincenzo Leonetti

[MegaRayone]

L'italia non merita Napoli. Se Napoli si fosse trovata in un'altra nazione , a quest'ora sarebbe ancora terza capitale europea!

[capelliccio]

queste canzoni sono dei documenti canori con i quali dimostreremo che fummo e siamo tutt'ora colonizzati dal nord

i vincitori scrivono i libri, la gente che ha vissuto quei drammi sulla propria pelle ha raccontato la storia attraverso le canzoni, ed i napoletani, ingegnosi come sono, hanno trovato il loro modo di raccontare i drammi dell'invasione piemontese, ops unità di'italia,

[Mxpx856]

@reduxmisc very well put as the son of Italian immigrants it really burns me up when people think that people that come here illegally should be treated the same and given the same treatment as people that came here the right way. I understand life must be pretty miserable in your home country for you to come to America in makeshift boats but thousand of people before you came through the front door instead of the back door.

[KarolinaBooomOnly]

@KarolinaBooomOnly ti sbagli amo il mio paese !!!!

[antonio141371]

@KarolinaBooomOnly E' molto probabile che non hai mai amato il tuo paesello!

[MrItalianMusic]

@stravinile e non sapere se si arrivasse o meno!