Translation:Bella ciao
"Bella ciao" is an Italian partisan song of World War II.
Lyrics edit
Note: rhymes are not rendered in English in the translation below, and several short Italian words (bella, ciao) translate into long English words (beautiful, goodbye), without keeping meter.
Also, there are several verses which differ in the Italian version, i.e. different ways to sing those verses. Those are written in brackets.
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Alternate translations edit
Alternate, less literal and more metrical translation – which also makes explicit some aspects that are left implicit in the Italian text:
- SWEETHEART GOODBYE
- One morning when I awakened
- Oh beauty bye, beauty bye, beauty bye-bye-bye!
- One morning when I awakened
- I found invaders all around
- Oh partisan, come take me with you
- Oh beauty bye, beauty bye, beauty bye-bye-bye!
- Oh partisan, come take me with you
- Because I feel ready to die
- If I die fighting as a partisan
- Oh beauty bye, beauty bye, beauty bye-bye-bye!
- If I die fighting as a partisan
- You must come and bury me
- Bury me there, up in the mountains
- Oh beauty bye, beauty bye, beauty bye-bye-bye!
- Bury me there, up in the mountains
- Shade my grave with a lovely flower
- So all the people who pass that way
- Oh beauty bye, beauty bye, beauty bye-bye-bye!
- So all the people who pass that way
- Will say "Oh see that lovely flower! – "
- "Ah that's the flower of the partisan fighter – "
- Oh beauty bye, beauty bye, beauty bye-bye-bye!
- "Ah that's the flower of the partisan fighter
- who died for freedom's sake!"
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