Текст и перевод песни Dalida - Gigi L'Amoroso (Live Carnegie Hall, Etats-Unis/1979)

Gigi L'Amoroso (Live Carnegie Hall, Etats-Unis/1979)

Je vais vous raconter
Avant de vous quitter
L'histoire d'un p'tit village pres de Napoli
Nous etions quatre amis
Au bal tous les samedis
A jouer, a chanter toute la nuit
Giorgio a la guitare
Sandro a la mandoline
Moi je dansais en frappant du tambourin
Mais tous ceux qui venaient
C'etait pour ecouter
Celui qui faisait battre tous les coeurs

Et quand il arrivait
La foule s'ecriait
Arriva, Gigi l'Amoroso
Croqueur d'amour, l'oeil de velours comme une caresse
Gigi l'Amoroso
Toujours vainqueur, parfois sans coeur
Mais jamais sans tendresse
Partout, c'etait la fête quand il chantait
Zaza, luna caprese o sole mio

Gigi Giuseppe
Mais tout le monde l'appelait Gigi l'Amour
Et les femmes etaient folles de lui, toutes
La femme du boulanger, qui fermait sa boutique tous les mardis pour aller...
La femme du notaire qui etait une sainte et qui n'vait jamais tromper son
Mari auparavant
Et la veuve du colonel
La veuve du colonel qui ne porta plus le deuil
Parce qu'il n'aimait pas le noir
Toutes, je vous dis
Meme moi, mais moi, Gigi aimait trop sa liberte, jusqu'au jour ou

Une riche americaine
A grands coups de je t'aime
Lui proposa d'aller jusqu'à Hollywood
Tu seras le plus beau
De tous les Caruzos
Lui disait-elle jusqu'à en perdre haleine
Nous voila a la gare
Avec tous nos mouchoirs
Le coeur serre, emus par ce grand depart
Pourtant on etait fier
Qu'il depasse nos frontieres
Gigi partait conquerir l'Amerique
Et quand il arriva
Le village etait là

Arriva, Gigi l'Amoroso
Croqueur d'amour, l'oeil de velours comme une caresse
Gigi l'Amoroso
Toujours vainqueur, parfois sans coeur
Mais jamais sans tendresse
Et la, devant la foule, il a chante
Zaza, luna caprese, o sole mio

Gigi, quand le train est disparu, nous sommes tous rentres chez nous
Et le lendemain, le village n'etait plus le meme
La femme du boulanger refusa d'allumer son four
La femme du notaire par desespoir pris plusieurs amants
Et la veuve du colonel ferma ses persiennes et reprit le deuil pour la
Seconde fois
Oui, le village avait bien change
Et moi

Les annees ont passe
Cinq hivers, cinq etes
"No news", c'etait "good news" on nous avait dit
Il a fallu du temps
Du courage et du temps
Pour arriver a continuer sans lui
Et malgre son absence
La nuit dans le silence
En pliant nos costumes et nos instruments
On entendait venir
Comme une larme un soupir
Du fond de la salle cette melodie

Croqueur d'amour, l'oeil de velours comme une caresse

Gigi, Gigi, c'est toi la-bas dans le noir
Attends, laisse-moi te regarder
Mais tu pleures
Tu pleures Gigi
Ca n'a pas ete la-bas, hein
Et alors, et alors qu'est ce qu'ils comprennent ces Americains a part le rock
Et le twist, hein
Ma Gigi, qu'est-ce que tu croyais, devenir comme ca Gigi l'Americano
E invece no, tu sei Giuseppe Fabrizio Luca Santini
Et tu es Nappolitain

Ecoute, Giorgio s'est mis à la guitare
Attends, Sandro est la aussi
Mais, mais tu ne peux pas t'en aller comme ca
Ici tu es chez toi
Ici tu es le roi

Tu entends, tu les entends Gigi
Ils sont tous la
Ils ont du te reconnaitre a la gare
Chante Gigi, chante, c'est ton public
Chante pour eux, chante pour moi qui n'ai jamais su te parler
Oui, vas-y, bravo Gigi, chante

Arriva, Gigi l'Amoroso
Croqueur d'amour, l'oeil de velours comme une caresse
Gigi l'Amoroso
Toujours vainqueur, parfois sans coeur
Mais jamais sans tendresse
Partout, c'etait la fête quand il chantait
Zaza, luna caprese o sole mio
Arriva, Gigi l'Amoroso
Croqueur d'amour, l'oeil de velours comme une caresse
Gigi l'Amoroso
Toujours vainqueur, parfois sans coeur
Mais jamais sans tendresse...

Gigi L'Amoroso (Live Carnegie Hall, USA/1979)

I'm going to tell you a story
Before I leave you
The story of a small village near Napoli
We were four friends
At the ball every Saturday
Playing, singing all night long
Giorgio on the guitar
Sandro on the mandolin
I danced while playing the tambourine
But everyone who came
It was to listen
To the one who made all hearts beat faster

And when he arrived
The crowd would shout
Here comes, Gigi l'Amoroso
Heartbreaker, with velvet eyes like a caress
Gigi l'Amoroso
Always a winner, sometimes heartless
But never without tenderness
Everywhere, it was a party when he sang
Zaza, luna caprese, o sole mio

Gigi Giuseppe
But everyone called him Gigi the Lover
And women were crazy about him, all of them
The baker's wife, who closed her shop every Tuesday to go...
The notary's wife who was a saint and had never cheated on her
Husband before
And the colonel's widow
The colonel's widow who no longer wore mourning clothes
Because he didn't like black
All of them, I tell you
Even me, but me, Gigi loved his freedom too much, until the day when

A rich American woman
With loud declarations of "I love you"
Offered him to go all the way to Hollywood
You will be the most handsome
Of all the Carusos
She told him until she was breathless
We were at the station
With all our handkerchiefs
Our hearts tight, moved by this great departure
Yet we were proud
That he was going beyond our borders
Gigi was leaving to conquer America
And when he arrived
The village was there

Here comes, Gigi l'Amoroso
Heartbreaker, with velvet eyes like a caress
Gigi l'Amoroso
Always a winner, sometimes heartless
But never without tenderness
And there, in front of the crowd, he sang
Zaza, luna caprese, o sole mio

Gigi, when the train disappeared, we all went home
And the next day, the village was no longer the same
The baker's wife refused to light her oven
The notary's wife, out of despair, took several lovers
And the colonel's widow closed her shutters and went back into mourning for the
Second time
Yes, the village had changed a lot
And me

The years have passed
Five winters, five summers
"No news", it was "good news" we were told
It took time
Courage and time
To manage to continue without him
And despite his absence
At night in the silence
While folding our costumes and instruments
We heard coming
Like a tear, a sigh
From the back of the room this melody

Heartbreaker, with velvet eyes like a caress

Gigi, Gigi, is that you over there in the dark
Wait, let me look at you
But you're crying
You're crying Gigi
It didn't work out over there, huh
So, so what do these Americans understand besides rock
And twist, huh
My Gigi, what did you think, becoming Gigi l'Americano like that
E invece no, you are Giuseppe Fabrizio Luca Santini
And you are Neapolitan

Listen, Giorgio has started playing the guitar
Wait, Sandro is there too
But, but you can't leave like that
Here you are at home
Here you are the king

You hear, you hear them Gigi
They are all there
They must have recognized you at the station
Sing Gigi, sing, this is your audience
Sing for them, sing for me who never knew how to talk to you
Yes, go ahead, bravo Gigi, sing

Here comes, Gigi l'Amoroso
Heartbreaker, with velvet eyes like a caress
Gigi l'Amoroso
Always a winner, sometimes heartless
But never without tenderness
Everywhere, it was a party when he sang
Zaza, luna caprese, o sole mio
Here comes, Gigi l'Amoroso
Heartbreaker, with velvet eyes like a caress
Gigi l'Amoroso
Always a winner, sometimes heartless
But never without tenderness...