Текст и перевод песни Fabrizio De André - Don Raffaè - live tour 'Anime Salve'

Don Raffaè - live tour 'Anime Salve'

Io mi chiamo Pasquale Cafiero
E son brigadiero del carcere oine′
Io mi chiamo Cafiero Pasquale
Sto a Poggioreale dal '53
E al centesimo catenaccio
Alla sera mi sento uno straccio
Per fortuna che al braccio speciale
C′e' un uomo geniale che parla co'mme.
Tutto il giorno con quattro infamoni
Briganti, papponi, cornuti e lacche′
Tutte ll′ore co' ′sta fetenzia
Che sputa minaccia e s"a piglia co' mme
Ma alla fine m′assetto papale
Mi sbottono e mi leggo 'o ggiurnale
Mi consiglio con don Raffae′
Mi spiega che penso e bevimm"o ccafe'.
Ah, che bellu ccafe'
Sulo ′n carcere ′o sanno fa'
Co′ 'a recetta ch′a Cicirinella
Compagno di cella ci ha dato mamma'.
Prima pagina venti notizie
Ventuno ingiustizie e lo Stato che fa
Si costerna, s′indigna, s'impegna
Poi getta la spugna con gran dignita'.
Mi scervello. mi asciugo la fronte
Per fortuna c′e′ chi mi risponde
A quell'uomo sceltissimo e immenso
Io chiedo consenso, a don Raffae′.
Un galantuomo che tiene sei figli
Ha chiesto una casa e ci danno consigli
L' assessore che Dio lo perdoni
′Ndentro 'a roulotte ci alleva i visoni.
Voi vi basta una mossa, una voce
C′a 'stu Cristo ci leva 'na croce.
Con rispetto, s′e′ fatto le tre
Vulite 'a spremuta o vulite ′o caffe'?
Ah, che bellu ccafe′
Sulo 'n carcere ′o sanno fa'
Co' ′a recetta ch′a Cicirinella
Compagno di cella ci ha dato mamma'
Ah, che bellu ccafe′

Sulo 'n carcere ′o sanno fa'
Co′ 'a recetta di Cicirinella
Compagno di cella precisa a mamma'
′Cca ci sta l′inflazione, la svalutazione
E la borsa ce l'ha chi c′e' l′ha
Io non tengo compendio che chillo stipendio
E' un ambo se sogno a papa′
Aggiungete mia figlia Innocenza
Vuo' 'o marito, nun tiene pazienza
Non vi chiedo la grazia pe′mme
Vi faccio la barba o la fate da se′?
Voi tenete un cappotto cammello
Che al maxi-processo eravate 'o cchiu bello,
Un vestito gessato marrone
Cosi′ ci è sembrato alla televisione
Pe 'ste nozze vi prego Eccellenza
Mi prestasse pe′ ffare presenza
Io gia' tengo le scarpe e ′o gile'
Gradite 'o Campari o vulite ′o ccafe′?
Ah, che bellu ccafe'
Sulo ′n carcere 'o sanno fa′
Co' ′a recetta ch'a Cicirinella
Compagno di cella ci ha dato mamma'.
Ah, che bellu ccafe′
Sulo ′n carcere 'o sanno fa′
Co' ′a ricetta di Cicirinella
Compagno di cella preciso a mamma'.
Qui non c′e' piu' decoro, le carceri d′oro
Ma chi ll′ha mai viste, chissa'
Cheste so′ fatiscenti pe' cchisto ′e fetienti
Si tengono l'immunita′
Don Raffae' voi politicamente
Io vi giuro sarebbe 'nu santo
Ma a′cca dinto voi state a paga′
E fora chist'atre se stanno a spassa′.
A proposito, tengo nu frate
Che da quindici anni sta disoccupato
Chillo ha fatto cinquanta concorsi
Novanta domande e duecento ricorsi
Voi che date conforto e lavoro,
Eminenza, vi bacio e v'imploro
Chillo dorme cu mamma e cu mme
Che crema d′Arabia ch'e′ cchistu ccafe'.

Don Raffaè - live tour 'Saved Souls'

My name is Pasquale Cafiero
And I'm a brigadier at the prison, you see
My name is Cafiero Pasquale
I've been at Poggioreale since '53
And by the hundredth padlock
In the evening, I feel like a rag
Luckily, in the special wing
There's a brilliant man who talks like me.
All day long with four scoundrels
Bandits, pimps, cuckolds, and lackeys
All hours with this stench
That spits threats and picks fights with me
But in the end, I dress myself up like the Pope
I unbutton and read the newspaper
I seek advice from Don Raffaè
He explains what I think, and we drink coffee together.
Ah, what beautiful coffee
Only in prison do they know how to make it
With the recipe that Cicirinella
My cellmate's mother gave us.
Front page, twenty news stories
Twenty-one injustices, and what does the State do?
It's dismayed, indignant, committed
Then throws in the towel with great dignity.
I rack my brain, I wipe my brow
Luckily, there's someone who answers me
To that most chosen and immense man
I ask for consent, from Don Raffaè.
A gentleman with six children
Asked for a house and they give him advice
The councilman, may God forgive him
Raises minks inside a trailer.
All you need is a move, a word
And this Christ takes a cross off us.
With respect, you've done three years
Would you like a squeezed juice or would you like coffee?
Ah, what beautiful coffee
Only in prison do they know how to make it
With the recipe that Cicirinella
My cellmate's mother gave us.
Ah, what beautiful coffee

Only in prison do they know how to make it
With Cicirinella's recipe
My cellmate's precise mother gave us
Here there's inflation, devaluation
And the stock market belongs to those who have it
I have no other income than that salary
It's a winning combination if I dream of the Pope
Add my daughter Innocenza
She wants a husband, she has no patience
I don't ask for grace for myself
Will you shave your beard or will you do it yourself?
You have a camel coat
That at the maxi-trial you were the most handsome,
A pinstripe brown suit
That's how it seemed to us on television
For this wedding, I beg you, Your Excellency
Would you lend it to me to make an appearance
I already have the shoes and the waistcoat
Would you like a Campari or would you like coffee?
Ah, what beautiful coffee
Only in prison do they know how to make it
With the recipe that Cicirinella
My cellmate's mother gave us.
Ah, what beautiful coffee
Only in prison do they know how to make it
With Cicirinella's recipe
My cellmate's precise mother gave us.
Here there's no more decorum, golden prisons
But whoever saw them, who knows
These are dilapidated, that's why they're fetid
They keep their immunity
Don Raffaè, politically
I swear you would be a saint
But in here you're paying
And outside these others are having fun.
By the way, I have a brother
Who has been unemployed for fifteen years
He has taken fifty exams
Ninety applications and two hundred appeals
You who give comfort and work,
Your Eminence, I kiss you and implore you
He sleeps with my mother and me
What Arabian cream this coffee is.