Fenesta Che Lucive - Carlo Buti w/Translation

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This is a sad song about a man who has returned only to find his lover has died in his absence. The writer is anonymous although It is sometimes attributed to Vincenzo Bellini because the melody was used in his Opera La Sonnambula
Lyric with my Translation:
Fenesta che lucive e mo nun luce...
sign'è ca nénna mia stace malata...

S'affaccia la surella e mme lu dice:
Nennélla toja è morta e s'è atterrata...

Chiagneva sempe ca durmeva sola,
mo dorme co' li muorte accompagnata...

Va' dint''a cchiesa, e scuopre lu tavuto:
vide nennélla toja comm'è tornata...

Da chella vocca ca n'ascéano sciure,
mo n'esceno li vierme...Oh! che piatate!
Zi parrocchiano mio, ábbece cura: na
lampa sempe tienece allummata...

Addio fenesta, rèstate 'nzerrata
ca nénna mia mo nun se pò affacciare...
Io cchiù nun passarraggio pe' 'sta strata:
vaco a lo camposanto a passíare!
'Nzino a lo juorno ca la morte 'ngrata,
mme face nénna mia ire a trovare!..
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The light is no longer in the window
is it a sign that my love is sick.?
I asked her sister and she told me that
my girl is already dead and buried.
She cried so much sleeping alone.
Now she sleeps with the dead

Go to the church and see her coffin.
See if shes come back to you.
See if her breath is sweet or if she
lies with the worms.
Oh have mercy...
Father take care of her,
keep a flame lit

Goodbye window, stay closed
because now love is not there
I will no longer walk by this window
but walk by the cemetery
Until the day I die and
I am reunited with my love

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  • Canzone tristissima ma accarezzata soavemente dalla stupenda voce di Buti. Grazie Giancarlo per l'invio.

  • Canzone bella, immortale, nonostante sia un po triste.. E poi questa voce calda che arriva dal passato, bella!

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  • Simply beautiful.

  • Una mezza voce meravigliosa. Canta come un angelo del celo!!!

  • Thank you reduxmisc for this amazing performance. Carlo Buti has been one of my favourite singers for 40 years, ever since Maestra Tina Ruta, Italian coach at the Royal Opera and my Italian teacher, took an 18 yr old home to dinner for a bit of good food and mothering, and began to instruct me in the art of Bel Canto. I have many records of his but not this. Mstra Ruta assured me the words date back to the C12th and the tune (local to Naples) since the C15th. Yes, Bellini did use it. Thx again.

  • Il mio cantante preferito di tutti i tempi.

    Canzone semplicemente grandiosa!

  • mia nonna me la cantava sempre quando ero piccola,struggente canzone cantata sulla melodia del bellini........

  • Bellissima voce , un grande fondatore della canzone Italiana. Grazie Giancarlo per l'invio

  • Voce celestiale di un grande artista fondatore del bel "canto all'italiana" cui si sono ispirati, fra gli altri, Villa e Tajoli.Grazie Giancarlo per il gradito invio.

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