Pizzicarella

[maria_gr]

Mi piace la musica del Salento e questa canzone è la mia favorita. Ho provato a tradurrla, però non so tutti i parole e non sono sicura. Per favore, potete correggirla? Grazie tante!

Pizzicarella*

Pizzicarella mia pizzicarella
My pizzicarella, pizzicarella
lu caminatu tou pare ca balla.
your walking seems like dance (to dance).

A ddhu te pizzicau ca nu se scerne
Where have you been pricked
sutta lu giru giru te la suttana.
*It can’t be seen under your slip.*

Quantu t'amau t'amau lu core meu
How much my heart loved you
mò nu te ama cchiui se nde scurdatu.
now it doesn’t love you anymore, it has forgotten you.

Te l'ura ca te vitti te mmirai
From the moment i saw you, I admired you
nu segnu figgi a mienzu a mienzu all'occhi toi.
a mark ...................... your eyes.

Amore amore ce m'hai fattu fare
Love, love what you’ve made me to do
e quindici anni m'hai fatta mpaccire.
when I was fifteen you’ve made me mad.

Te quindici anni m'hai fatta mpaccire
when I was fifteen you’ve made me mad.
de matre e patre m'hai fatta scurdare.
mother and father you’ve made me to forget.

* Does pizzicarella mean “a woman that has been pricked”?

[Magic]

Pizzicarella my pizzicarella
your way of walking looks like a dance.

Where have you been bitten?
It can’t be seen under your slip.

—from Pizzica-pizzica

Puttana le perdisti ma le carizze
no mangi no cappuni e no puddhastre.

T’aggia fa’ na curuna ma a pizzi a pizzi
e ’ntornisciata de capu de cazzi.

***** you have lost my caresses
you do not eat capons nor pullets anymore.

I have to make you a pointed crown
adorned all around with **** heads.

—from Puttana le perdisti le carizze

Lu tamburrieddu mia vinne de Roma
mannaggia ci lu canta e ci lu sona.

Mannaggia quandu mai ca se ne ndesse
lu viziu mia lu sai stringi le cosce.

My tambourine comes from Rome
too bad for the one who sings and dance with it.

Too bad when it comes out
you know my flaw, keep your thighs tight.

—from Pizzica-pizzica

Quantu t’amu te ’mporta a tie mia bella quantu t’amu
e domenaca te portu al mio giardino

te mostru la chianta de lu verde ramu
e li pumetti ci caccianu oru finu.

How I love you, do you want to know
how much I love you, my beauty?

Sunday, I will take you to my garden

I’ll show you the plant of evergreen limb
and the two apples which release fine gold.

—from Mara l’acqua

Hi found this translation for you... It certainly seems a funny song and I thought Pizzicarella was a an Italian girls name.... but you might be right in what you have said he! he!
Found the translation here: http://www.incantata.com/musichesalento.html

[maria_gr]

I think that only the first 4 verses are from the song Pizzicarella. Thank you very much cause one verse that i can't understand is included. Now I only need the other one!