Funiculì, Funiculà (Luigi Denza)
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- Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-07-18). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 200 kbytes Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central. Edition in E flat Major
General Information
Title: Funiculì, Funiculà
Composer: Luigi Denza
Lyricist: Giuseppe "Peppino" Turco (1846-1907)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: Italian
Instruments: Piano
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Original text and translations
Italian text
- Stasera, Nina mia, io son montato
- Te lo dirò?
- Colà dove dispetti un cor ingrato
- Più far non può.
- Cola cocente è il foco, ma se fuggi
- Ti lascia star
- E non ti corre appresso, e non ti struggi
- A riguardar
- Lesti, lesti, via, montiam su la,
- Lesti, lesti, via, montiam su là,
- Funiculì funiculà, funiculì funiculà,
- via montiam su là, funiculì funiculà.
English translation
by Edward Oxenford
- Some think the world is made for fun and frolic,
- And so do I!
- Some think it well to be all melancholic,
- To pine and sigh;
- But I, I love to spend my time in singing,
- Some joyous song,
- To set the air with music bravely ringing
- Is far from wrong!
- Listen! Listen! Echoes sound afar!
- Listen! Listen! Echoes sound afar!
- Tra la la la, tra la la la, tra la la la, tra la la la!
- Echoes sound afar! Tra la la la, tra la la la.
(this is not a litteral translation but rather a new text adapted to the music)
