Odineide
1975 · I Dischi del Sole DS 1054/56 · Venice, Italy
- Artist
- Gualtiero Bertelli
- Title
- Odineide
- Release
- Mi voria saver
- Year
- 1975
- Label
- I Dischi del Sole # DS 1054/56
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Venetian
- Country
- Venice, Italy
- Songwriter
- Mario Isnenghi (words), Gualtiero Bertelli (music)
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Italian Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
English: A) That Night of 18 April 1948 // You weren't there that month of April – / Says the provost to the chaplain – / We didn't lose heart, / But we ate our livers out. // Saddest days of suffering, / The Church fights against betrayal, / The Reds are raging, we're short of breath, / But we won't raise the white flag. // Poor Italy, it seemed / It wanted no more of us. Poor us. // Everyone at the palace, day and night, / Tired, exhausted, with broken bones, / Most reverends and monsignors, / Men, women, simpletons and doctors. // Provosts and nuns, altar boys and friars, / Pious women and sextons who come and go, / They shout, they count, they pray over themselves, / The messenger brings them the news. // Poor Italy, it seemed / It wanted no more of us. Poor us. // Upright in the midst of the battle, / Like an archangel among the rabble, / Sleepless and watchful, simple and proud, / Stands our Eminence, dressed in black. // He signals, and a parish priest slips out of the crowd / To bring him the figures from his polling station; / He leaves again, and a cleric posted at the door / Approaches him discreetly. // "It would be – he murmurs – that honourable member." / "Let him in," and one, triumphant, in ecstasy, / Rushes in and then, obligingly, / Throws himself straight at his feet; / He grabs his hand and covers it with kisses. / "It's done – he cries – for us, for the faith!" // Ah, Don Rosario, I am old and you are young, / And perhaps you can't even understand: / At…
Notes
Track B1, listed as "Odineide: la note del quel dicioto aprile / el voto de le femene / i do piovani / l'ano santo" — four parts in Venetian dialect, the first three written 1964 and the last for the 1975 Holy Year; released 5 May 1975, publisher Edizioni del Gallo. Vietnam is named in passing. Reissued on LP (Bravò BR 128553721, 1989) and CD (1996).
About the artist
Gualtiero Bertelli (born Venice, 1944) — singer-songwriter of the Nuovo Canzoniere Veneto. [Source: Wikipedia (it)]
Themes
Satire · Christianity · Religion · Election
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]