Paroles et traduction Massimo Ranieri - O' guarracino

O' guarracino

'O guarracino ca jeva p'o mare
Jeve truvanno 'e se nzorare (...'e se nguaiare)
Se facette 'nu bello vestito
Chino chino 'e scorze d'ancino
Nu scarpino fatt'a ngrese
'A pettinatura a la francese (...'o cazunciello a la francese)
Allustrato e puletiello
Jeva facenno 'o nnammuratiello
La sardella ca 'o verette
'O ghianco e 'o russo se mettette
Po' pigliaie 'o calascione
E mpruvvisaie 'na canzone (...po' chiammaie a Pascalone/e l'ammustaie chistu cazone)
'A canzone c"o liuto
'O guarracino s'è ncannaruto (...nzallanuto)
Passa a tiempo 'a zia vavosa
Vecchia trammera zandragliosa
'A vavosa pe' 'nu rano
Faceva li pisce la ruffiana (...frieva l'ove 'int"o tiano)
Jesce llà fora e mpostal"o pietto
Si vuò stu marito rint"o lietto (...si vuò fa mò 'nu rispietto)
'A sardella a sti parole
Se facette 'na bbona scola
De curzera s'affacciaie
E 'o guarracino zenniaie (...e tutte li trezze l'ammustaie)
Mentre ca lloro amuriggiavano
Tutte li pisce se n'addunavano (...se masteriavano)
Primma fuie 'na raosta
Ca da luntano faceva la posta
Pò se ne venne la raia petrosa
E 'a chiammaie schefenzosa (...brutta zellosa)
Pecché trarev'all'allitterato
Ca era geluso e nnammurato (...ca era 'nu piezzo 'e scurnacchiato)
L'allitterato ca l'appuraie
Tutti li sante jastemmaie
E alluccanno voglio vendetta
Corze alla casa comm'a saetta.
Pò s'armaie fino fino
Pe' sguarrà lu guarracino (...pe' spaccà lu guarracino)
Marammé oi mamma bella
Alluccava la zi' sardella
E 'a vedé stu cumbattimento
Le venette 'nu svenimento
Le venette 'n'antecore
E tutt'e pisci ascettero fore (...e 'o capitone ascette fore)
Bello e bbuono comm'a niente
Ascettero tutte a pisci fetiente
Tira e molla piglia e afferra
Mmiez'a sti pisci lu serra serra
Quatto ciefere arraggiate
Se pigliavano a capuzzate tutte li purpe cu ciento vraccia
Se pigliavano a pisci 'nfaccia (...a panne 'nfaccia)
'Na purpessa a 'na vicina
Le faceva lu strascino (...le stracciaie lu suttanino)
Mentre 'e sarde alluccavano a mare
"Ca ve pozzano strafucare!"
'Nu marvizzo cu 'n'uocchio ammaccato
Deva mazzate da cecato
Quanno cugliette pe' scagno a 'na vopa
Chesta pigliaie 'na mazza de scopa
Piglia sta mazza e fuje da llà
Mannaggia lu pesce c"o baccalà
Se secutavano ore e ore
Pigliala 'a capa e fuje p"a cora.
Ddoje arenche vecchie bizzoche
Se paliavano poco a poco
E ammaccannose 'o paniello
Misero mmiezo a 'nu piscitiello
Stu piscitiello che era fetente
Facette 'na mossa malamente
Stu piscitiello svergugnato
Facette po' sotto 'o smaliziato (...disgraziato/...'o scurnacchiato)
Ma 'nu palammeto bunacchione
Magnava cozzeche c"o limone
E 'nu marvizzo vistolo sulo
Te lo piglia a cavece 'nculo (...a muorze 'nculo)
Tutto nzieme a sta jurnata
Se sentette 'na scuppettata
Pe' la paura a 'na patella
Le venette 'na cacarella
Pe' la paura 'a nu piscitiello
Le venette 'nu riscinziello (...s'arrugnaie lu ciciniello)
Mentre 'nu rancio farabutto
Muzzecava li piere a tutte
Muorte e bbive ne li stesse
Ce cantava 'e Ssante Messe
Se pigliavano a mala parole
E se nturzavano bbuono e mmole
Po' pe' farse 'na bbona ragione
Danno de mano a lu cannone
'O cannone facette 'nu scuoppo
Lu guarracino restaie zuoppo
Zuoppo zuoppo mmiez"a via
Che mmalora e mamma mia (...tuppe tuppe bella mia/che mmalora e mamma mia)
Signure mieie ca sentite
Vurria sapé si 'o credite
Chi s'agliotte sti pallone
Tene 'nu bbuono cannarone
Chi s'agliotte chesta palla
Cu tutt"e pisci rimana a galla
Zuffamiré e zuffamirella
E 'ntinderindì sta tarantella (...zuffamiré zuffamirà/mannaggia lu pesce c"o baccalà)

The Little Garfish

The little garfish who swam through the sea
Was looking to get married (...'or get in trouble)
He made himself a fine suit
Covered in anchovy scales
A little shoe made in Greece
And a French hairstyle (...'or French trousers)
All polished and clean
He went playing the lover boy
The sardine who saw him
Put on her white and red makeup
Then she took the calascione
And improvised a song (...then she called Pascalone/and showed him this big fella)
The song with the lute
The little garfish fell in love (...went crazy)
The gossiping aunt passes by
An old and grumpy tram driver
The gossip, for a frogfish
Pimped out the fishes (...fried eggs in the pan)
She goes out and sticks out her chest
If you want this husband in your bed (...if you want to show some respect)
The sardine, hearing these words
Learned a good lesson
She leaned out of the alley
And winked at the garfish (...and showed him all her braids)
While they were flirting
All the fish were noticing (...gossiping)
First, it was a lobster
Who was watching from afar
Then came the thorny ray
And called her a shameless hussy (...an ugly jealous one)
Because she was leading on the illiterate one
Who was jealous and in love (...who was a real jerk)
The illiterate one, when he heard it
Cursed all the saints
And wanting revenge
He ran to the house like an arrow.
Then he armed himself to the teeth
To cut up the little garfish (...to split open the little garfish)
Oh my beautiful mama
Aunt sardine was watching
And seeing this fight
She fainted
She felt anxious
And all the fish came out (...and the eel came out)
Nice and easy
All the smelly fish came out
Pushing and pulling, grabbing and holding
Among these fish, it's crowded
Four angry groupers
Were headbutting each other, all the octopuses with their hundred arms
Were slapping each other in the face (...with bread in the face)
An octopus to a neighbor
Was doing the mop (...tore her petticoat)
While the sardines looked at the sea
"May you all get stuffed!"
A sea bream with a black eye
Was hitting blindly
When he caught a gurnard by the gills
She grabbed a broomstick
She took that broomstick and ran away
Damn the fish with the cod
They chased each other for hours
Grab her by the head and run to the heart.
Two old and grumpy sand eels
Were arguing little by little
And damaging their baskets
They put in the middle a little fish
This little fish, who was smelly
Made a bad move
This shameless little fish
Then acted like a sly one (...a wretch/...a jerk)
But a good-natured palamita
Was eating mussels with lemon
And a sea bream, seeing him alone
He grabs him by the head and up the ass (...bites him in the ass)
All together on this day
A gunshot was heard
Out of fear, a limpet
Had diarrhea
Out of fear, a little fish
Had a shiver (...his little thing rusted)
While a rogue crab
Was biting everyone's feet
He eats and drinks from the same ones
He sang them the Holy Mass
They cursed each other
And they turned good and soft
Then to make a good point
They give way to the cannon
The cannon made a bang
The little garfish was left lame
Lame, lame in the middle of the street
What bad luck, oh my mama (...knock knock, my beauty/what bad luck, oh my mama)
My lords, you who are listening
I would like to know if you believe it
Whoever swallows these cannonballs
Has a good windpipe
Whoever swallows this ball
With all the fish, remains afloat
Fighting and fighting
And listen to this tarantella (...fighting and fighting/damn the fish with the cod)