La Romanina (Di Lazzaro), fast Italian waltz on 1890s mandolin and tenor guitar

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Uploaded by on Jan 20, 2012

This is a fast waltz, also called "La Bella Romanina", written by Eldo Di Lazzaro to words by G. Micheli and R. Micheli. As a song, it has been recorded by Connie Francis, Claudio Villa, Luciano Tajoli, Alvaro Amici, Carlo Buti and others.

My instrumental version is based on the arrangement by the late Matteo Casserino (1911-2001), the mainstay of the Italian sessions at Caffe Trieste in San Francisco. His original recording, and hand-written music chart, are available at:

http://www.brucezweig.com/music/matteo/

The same arrangement is also (in neater typesetting) in Sheri Mignano's invaluable book "Mandolin Melodies", who also added the second mandolin part.

Played on my 1890s Umberto Ceccherini bowlback mandolin with tenor guitar backing.

The original lyrics of the song are:

La Romanina cantando,
vien dal Gianicolo in fiore,
ti dà un'occhiata passando,
ti mette il fuoco nel cuore.

E tutta Roma
s'incanta
ed ognuno le canta
dicendo così:

Lasciatela passare
la bella Romanina
che tutti fà incantare
nel mentre che cammina.

Ti fa provare la scossa
con gli occhi d'assassina,
la bella Romanina
lasciatela passar.

Quando la gente straniera
vede la bella romana
sente sbocciar primavera
sente che il cuore risana.

E tutta Roma
s'incanta
ed ognuno le canta
dicendo così:

Lasciatela passare
la bella Romanina
che tutti fà incantare
nel mentre che cammina.

Ti fa provare la scossa
con gli occhi d'assassina,
la bella Romanina
lasciatela passar.

Ti fa provare la scossa
con gli occhi d'assassina,
la bella Romanina
lasciatela passar

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  • Would love to get sheet music for this.

  • @sunnynva

    Thanks for the comment! The link to the sheet music is in the description.

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  • Bravo!

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