Credited on the record as Aramirè Compagnia di Musica Salentina.
O pillo pillo pì
2004 · Edizioni Aramirè EA 09 · Lecce, Italy
- Artist
- Aramirè
- Credited on the record as
- Aramirè Compagnia di Musica Salentina
- Title
- O pillo pillo pì
- Release
- Mazzate pesanti
- Year
- 2004
- Label
- Edizioni Aramirè # EA 09
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Lecce, Italy
- Songwriter
- Traditional (Salento); protest verses Salvatore Caldarazzo, Cici Cafaro, Giovanni Pellegrino; 2004 verses Roberto Raheli
- Genre
- Folk · Italian Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Lyrics
English: Hey dear Pascalinu, dear Grandpa Tore / You’ve passed on your way of thinking to your children / And you, dear Narducciu—how many nights you spend without sleep / Because your bosses crush you like worms / And you, dear Franciscu, cannot go to school / Because if you learn something, it displeases the boss // Opillopillopì opillopillopà / We must fight, but for the sake of freedom // And don't keep saying, 'That's just how the world was and how it is' / If we don't ask ourselves what is happening in Vietnam / What is happening in Chile, in Portugal, in Palestine / What is happening in Africa and throughout Indochina / The world is turning, the world is rebelling / Because those who don't work always live the good life / The world is rebelling, the world is turning / Because those who do work never earn a single penny // Opillopillopì opillopillopà / We must fight, but for the sake of freedom // The year 1970 has already passed / We sing this song just as it was sung back then / But I must tell you—forgive me, dear friends— / That the problems of those days remain exactly the same / Back then, it was Italians forced to emigrate / Today, it is Albanians crossing the sea / From Morocco, across Africa, Senegal, and Turkey / The poor are on the move, searching for a way forward // Opillopillopì opillopillopà / We must fight, but for the sake of freedom // Compared to these disasters, I cannot complain / For in this Italy of ours, people no longer die of hunger / There is…
Notes
Track 7 of 14. A traditional Salento tune carrying protest verses added by several authors from the 1970s, the last by Roberto Raheli for this 2004 recording.
About the artist
Aramirè, Compagnia di Musica Salentina — founded 1996 in Lecce by Luigi Chiriatti, Roberto Raheli and Sandro Girasoli of the former Canzoniere di Terra d'Otranto. [Source: Wikipedia (it)]