Purcell: Pox On You - Dante Ferrara

http://www.danteferrara.co.uk/

(Henry Purcell, 1693)
from the CD Bazimakoo by Dante Ferrara

Lyrics:
Pox on you for a fop, your stomach's too queasy.
Cannot I belch and fart, you coxcomb to ease me?
What if I let fly in your face and shall please ye?

Fogh, fogh, how sour he smells. Now he's at it again. Out ye beast, I never met so nasty a man.
I'm not able to bear it, what the devil d'ye mean?

No less than a Caesar decreed with great reason,
no restraint should be laid on the bum or the weason, for belching and farting were always in season.

Music Copyright Dante Ferrara 2007
Video Copyright Adam Verity 2007

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Music

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• Ferrara
• Pox
• on
• You
• Purcell
• Folk
• Baroque
• Humor
• Humour
• Classical
• Fart

[troubleclef]

Excuse me. Must have been something I ate.

Straight to my favorites. Brilliant. And the singer's diction is superb. I have a cd version of this song and can't hear the words on it nearly as well as I do here.

[DanteFerrara]

@troubleclef

Glad you like it, thank you. The lyrics to this and many more are on my website. Somewhere among these comments is an Italian translation too. DF

[DanteFerrara]

Ti venga un sifilide damerino che sei! Hai lo stomaco in disordine.

Ma, bellimbusto, non posso ruttare, oppure scoreggiare per farmi comodo? E se te la scarico una in faccia, ti piacerrebbe?

Ma che puzza acre che fa, e adesso continua. Fuori bestia! Mai ho incontrato un uomo così sgradevole. Non ce la faccio a sopportarne più. Ma che diavolo fai?

Nientemeno che un Cesare decretò con ottima ragione che non dobbiamo impedire il culo o la pancia, che ruttare e scoreggiare è sempre di stagione.

[DanteFerrara]

Spero di farlo, ma sarà molto difficile dato che ci sono molte espressioni inglese arcaiche. DF

[DanteFerrara]

Grazie, mi fa piacere che ti piace. DF

[bass0111]

What can be said? This is fun, brilliant, saucy, et cetera ... thank you for joyous mirth!

mh

[DanteFerrara]

@bass0111

Thank you, DF

[davehshs]

What a brilliant 'trio.' Your comic sense and your singing are both excellent. Thanks for shedding 'light' on this aspect of 18th-century stage fare.

[BSA2417666]

Potresti tradurlo in italano?

[FlowArtStudios]

Lol

XD XD XD XD

You are a man of genius!! XD

[jkvocalist]

Most enjoyable- thanks

:)