Lyrics and translation Fabrizio De André - Sidún

Sidún

U mæ ninin u mæ
U mæ
Lerfe grasse au su
D'amë d'amë

Tûmù duçe benignu
De teu muaè
Spremmûu 'nta maccaia
De stæ de stæ

E oua grûmmu de sangue ouëge
E denti de laete
E i euggi di surdatti chen arraggë
Cu'a scciûmma a a bucca cacciuéi de bæ
A scurrï a gente cumme selvaggin-a
Finch'u sangue sarvaegu nu gh'à smurtau a qué
E doppu u feru in gua i feri d'ä prixún
E 'nte ferie a semensa velenusa d'ä depurtaziún
Perché de nostru da a cianûa a u meü
Nu peua ciû cresce ni aerbu ni spica ni figgeü

Ciao mæ 'nin l'ereditæ
L'è ascusa
'Nte sta çittæ
Ch'a brûxa ch'a brûxa
Inta seia che chin-a
E in stu gran ciaeu de feugu
Pe a teu morte piccin-a

Sidún

My mother, my mother
My mother
Green grass in the sun
Of love, of love

A gentle, benign tumor
From your mouth
Squeezed in the slaughterhouse
Of summer, of summer

And now this dark clot of blood
And milk teeth
And the eyes of soldiers without fury
With the foam at the mouth of slaughtered oxen
People scurry like wild animals
Until the savage blood has cooled
And after the fierce pain, the prison wounds
And in the wounds the poisonous seed of deportation
Because of our land, from the poison to the honey
No longer can grow grass, spike or fig

My mother, my heritage
Is hidden
In this city
That burns, that burns
In the evening that bows down
And in this great sky of fire
For your little death