Paroles et traduction Enrico Caruso - Fensta che lucive

Fensta che lucive

Fenesta ca lucive e mo nun luce...
Sign'è ca nénna mia stace malata...
S'affaccia la surella e mme lu dice
Nennélla toja è morta e s'è atterrata...
Chiagneva sempe ca durmeva sola
Mo dorme co' li muorte accompagnata...
Va' dint"a cchiesa, e scuopre lu tavuto
Vide nennélla toja comm'è tornata...
Da chella vocca ca n'ascéano sciure
Mo n'esceno li vierme... Oh! che piatate!

Addio fenesta, rèstate 'nzerrata
Ca nénna mia mo nun se pò affacciare...
Io cchiù nun passarraggio pe' 'sta strata
Vaco a lo camposanto a passíare!
'Nzino a lo juorno ca la morte 'ngrata
Mme face nénna mia ire a trovare!...

Fensta che lucive

Window that used to shine and now it doesn't...
It means that my love is sick...
Her sister comes out and tells me
Your beloved is dead and has been buried...
She always cried because she slept alone
Now she sleeps accompanied by the dead...
Go to the church, and open the coffin
See how your beloved has returned...
From that mouth from which flowers used to come out
Now worms emerge... Oh! What a pity!

Farewell, window, stay closed
Because my beloved can no longer look out...
I will no longer pass through this street
I will go to the cemetery to walk!
Until the day when ungrateful death
Makes me go and find my love!...