Nick Apollo Forte: Agita

Great song from a great movie. Slightly different version than the one used in the film. Taken from the vinyl LP "Songs from 'Broadway Danny Rose' and other Pearls of Culture".

If you want to play it, here's a chord tab for the song:
http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/n/nick_apollo_forte/agita_crd.htm

And this is a corrected version of what I understood from the lyrics (thanks a lot to miccar2005):

Agita, my goombah in the panzon
When I eat he gets a treat like a canzon
He enjoys every meal, every bite that I steal
Agita, my cumpà in the panzon

Some people like their pizza
Some people like a soffritt
And others like hot pepper
On everything they eat
You hunger with a vuole
To taste some baccalà
And all of once you think
"Well, I answer to cumpà"

My lovely, lovely woman
I hate to see her cry
But when I start to mangia
I get the evil eye
My vuole's getting stronger
Ah, to hell with my cumpà
Then I get it from my woman
Che te pozzan' schiattà

Agita, my goombah in the panzon
When I eat he gets a treat like a canzon
He enjoys every meal, every bite that I steal
Agita, my cumpà in the panzon

The tasty smelling peppers
With linguin' by the side
I know it gets confusing
You just cannot decide
But if you cross your cumpà
There is not a place to hide
So think about la panza
With that little man inside

Agita, my goombah in the panzon
When I eat he gets a treat like a canzon
He enjoys every meal, every bite that I steal
Agita, my cumpà in the panzon
Agita, my cumpà in the panzon

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Nick
• Apollo
• Forte
• Woody
• Allen
• Broadway
• Danny
• Rose

[miccar2005]

Canzon' (canzone) = song

[matiguri]

@miccar2005

Thank you, great work!

[elephantbarbiegirl]

Love this song! From one of my favoutie films. Can I be cheeky and ask you to post the lyrics. I can't catch all the words and I would love to learn this and serenade my sister with it. She's had a rough time recently and it would cheer her up no end

[matiguri]

@elephantbarbiegirl

Yes, the song is pure fun! And the lyrics are hard because of all the Italian words .

Check the comments for my transcription. Enjoy!

[matiguri]

De nada - I'm glad you like it!

[AnthonyAmmo]

Is there any chance we could see a high quality mp3 of this posted? Or of all the songs? This LP is pretty hard to find, and when you can find it it isn't cheap. This is the kind of thing that should be out there, because it'll probably never be released commercially again.

[FunnyCanadian]

Great song from a great film.

[SuperDeinos]

Agita' is agitare that is to worry and not to shake.

[Robbirob69]

@miccar2005 Vero, sono napoletane

[miccar2005]

@tjbarrie Ti assicuro che sono parole napoletane, anche perchè sono pronunciate con accento napoletano.

[miccar2005]

Beh no dai.... le parole in italiano un pò c'entrano!!! in ogni caso.... questa canzone è davvero un capolavoro! :)

[tjbarrie]

These are all Sicilian slang words.

[tjbarrie]

@miccar2005 These are all Sicilian slang words

[MCSBT94]

Le parole in "italiano" non c'entrano un cazzo nella canzone... Però fa collassà.