| Ogni sera di sotto al mio balcone
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| Sento cantar una canzone d’amore,
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| Pi un bel garzone
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| E battere mi sento forte il core,
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| Oh quanto
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| Oh com'
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| Ch’io la canti non vuol la mamma mia:
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| Vorrei saper perch
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| Ella non c'
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| La frase che m’ha fatto palpitare:
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| Vorrei baciare i toui capelli neri,
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| Le labbra tue e gli occhi tuoi severi,
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| Vorrei morir con te,
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| angel di Dio,
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| O bella innamorata tesoro mio.
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| Qui sotto il vidi ieri a passeggiare,
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| E lo sentiva al solito cantar:
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| Vorrei baciare i tuoi capelli neri,
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| Le labbra tue e gli occhi toui severi!
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| Stringimi, o cara, stringimi al tuo core,
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| Fammi provar l’ebbrezza dell’amor.
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| Forbidden Music
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| Underneath my balcony every evening
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| I hear a love-song,
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| Repeated several times
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| by a handsome young man
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| And it makes my heart beat faster.
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| O how sweet is that melody!
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| O how pretty, how I love to hear it!
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| My mother will not let me sing it,
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| I don’t know why she would forbid me,
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| Now that she is out I am going to sing
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| The song that I found so exciting.
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| I’d like to kiss your raven hair,
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| Your lips and your solemn eyes;
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| I would want to die with you,
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| O heavenly angel,
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| My beautiful beloved, precious jewel.
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| Yesterday I saw him walking by,
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| And heard him sing as he always does:
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| I’d like to kiss your raven hair,
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| Your lips and your solemn eyes!
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| Clasp me, darling, clasp me to your heart,
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| Let me feel the ecstasy of love! |