Paroles et traduction Renato Carosone - 'A sonnambula

'A sonnambula

Carmela è na bambola
E fa ′ammore cu me
Ma 'a mamma è terribile
Nun mm′ 'a vò' fá vedé

Allora aggio truvato
Nu bellu ritrovato
Carmela fa ′a sunnambula
Pe′ mme vení a truvá

E fa scema a mammá!

E cu 'a scusa ch′è na sunnambula
Chesta bambola, nèh, che fa
Tutt' ′e ssere, pe' copp′a ll'ásteco
Vène a ll'ùnnece a passiggiá

′Ncopp′a ll'ásteco ce stóngh′io
E lle dico stó' ccá pe′ te
E 'a sunnambula, ch′è na bambola
Fa 'a sunnambula 'mbracci′a me

′O pate, 'On Arcangelo
Pe′ dispietto nun vò'
Lle sóngo antipatico
E mm′ha ditto ca no

Ma a me che mme ne 'mporta
Io tengo aperta ′a porta
Carmela, comm'o ssolito
Mme vène a cunzulá

E fa scemo a papá!

E cu 'a scusa ch′è na sunnambula
Chesta bambola, nèh, che fa
Tutt′ 'e ssere, pe′ copp'a ll′ásteco
Vène a ll'ùnnece a passiggiá

′Ncopp'a ll'ásteco ce stóngh′io
E lle dico stó′ ccá pe' te
E ′a sunnambula, ch'è na bambola
Fa ′a sunnambula 'mbracci′a me

E cu 'a scusa ch'è na sunnambula
Chesta bambola, nèh, che fa
Tutt′ ′e ssere, pe' copp′a ll'ásteco
Vène a ll′ùnnece a passiggiá

'Ncopp′a ll'ásteco ce stóngh'io
E lle dico stó′ ccá pe′ te
E 'a sunnambula, ch′è na bambola
Fa 'a sunnambula ′mbracci'a me

E ′a sunnambula, ch'è na bambola
Fa 'a sunnambula ′mbracci′a me!

'A sonnambula

Carmela is a doll
And she's in love with me
But her mother is terrible
She doesn't want me to see her

So I found
A great invention
Carmela pretends to be sleepwalking
To come and see me

And she fools her mother!

With the excuse that she's a sleepwalker
This doll, you see, she does
Everything, on the balcony
She comes at eleven to walk

On the balcony I'm waiting
And I tell her I'm here for you
And the sleepwalker, who's a doll
Pretends to sleepwalk in my arms

Her father, Archangel
Out of spite he doesn't want to
He's mean to me
And he told me no

But I don't care
I keep the door open
Carmela, as usual
Comes to comfort me

And she fools her father!

With the excuse that she's a sleepwalker
This doll, you see, she does
Everything, on the balcony
She comes at eleven to walk

On the balcony I'm waiting
And I tell her I'm here for you
And the sleepwalker, who's a doll
Pretends to sleepwalk in my arms

With the excuse that she's a sleepwalker
This doll, you see, she does
Everything, on the balcony
She comes at eleven to walk

On the balcony I'm waiting
And I tell her I'm here for you
And the sleepwalker, who's a doll
Pretends to sleepwalk in my arms

And the sleepwalker, who's a doll
Pretends to sleepwalk in my arms!