| 1st verse |
Quel mazzolin di fiori
Che vien della montagna, (twice)
E guarda ben che no ’l se bagna
Che lo voglio regalar. (twice) | | This small bunch of flowers
That come from the mountain, (twice)
Take care not to get it wet
Because I want to give it away. (twice) |
2nd verse |
Lo voglio regalare
Perchè l’è un bel mazzetto. (twice)
Lo voglio dare al mio moretto
Questa sera quando ’l vien. (twice) | | I want to give it away
Because it is a beautiful small bouquet. (twice)
I want to give it to my little dark-haired man
Tonight when he will come. (twice) |
3rd verse |
Sta sera quando ’l viene
Gli fo’na brutta cera (twice)
E perchè sabato di sera
Ei no l’è vegnù da me. (twice) | | Tonight when he will come
I’ll look a sorry sight to him (twice)
Because Saturday evening
He doesn’t came home. (twice) |
4th verse |
No l’è vegnù da me,
L’è andà dalla Rosina. (twice)
E perchè mi son poverina,
Mi fa pianger e sospirar. (twice) | | He doesn’t came home,
He went at Rosina’s house. (twice)
And because I’m quite unhappy,
He makes me weep and sigh. (twice) |
5th verse |
Mi fa pianger e sospirare
Sul letto dei lamenti. (twice)
E che mai dirà la gente ?
Cosa mai diran di me ? (twice) | | He makes me weep and sigh
On wailing bed. (twice)
And what else will people say?
What will they say about me? (twice) |
6th verse |
Diran ch’io son tradita,
Tradita nell’amore (1), (twice)
E a me mi piange il cuore,
E per sempre piangerà. (twice) | | They will say I’m betrayed,
Betrayed in my love (1), (twice)
And cry my heart,
And cry forever and ever. (twice) |
7th verse |
Abbandono il primo,
Abbandono il secondo, (twice)
Abbandono tutte il mondo
E non mi marido più. (twice) | | I abandon the first one,
I abandon the second one, (twice)
I abandon everybody
And I’ll never marry myself. (twice) |
