Bella ciao (Goodbye, oh my beauty) Bella ciao is probably the most famous Italian song from the World War II period, as it became a worldwide hymn to antifascism. As a matter of fact, however, it was only composed two years after the end of the war adding new words onto a traditional harvesting song’s melody, with minimal metrical changes. Resistance fighters all over the world have adapted its lyrics to their situations, but here is the original text. The “invader” mentioned is the German Nazi army, while “partisan” was the name given to the Resistance fighters, who often hid in the mountains to escape their enemy. A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity. The term can apply to the field element of resistance movements, examples of which are the civilians that opposed Nazi German or Fascist Italian rule in several countries during World War II. English translation One morning I woke up goodbye oh my beauty, goodbye oh my beauty, goodbye oh my beauty, bye, bye, bye one morning I woke up and I found the invader. Oh partisan take me away goodbye oh my beauty… oh partisan take me away for I feel like dying. And if I die as partisan goodbye oh my beauty… and if I die as partisan you have to bury me. But bury me up in the mountain goodbye oh my beauty… but bury me up in the mountain under the shadow of a beautiful flower And all the people who will pass by goodbye oh my beauty… and all the people who will pass by will say to me “what a wonderful flower”! This is the flower of the partisan goodbye oh my beauty… this is the flower of the partisan who died for freedom.youtube/watch?v=hRR2OOvn3Ew
Posted on: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:44:13 +0000