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Le déserteur translated into ancient Greek by Riccardo Venturi: an absolute première for our AWS website, intended as a tribute to the culture and language of classical Greece.
Lorenzo Masetti 2006/1/10 - 20:22

Monsieur le président

Monsieur le président
Bonjour Lorenzo,

Bonne année,

Je ne vois ton message qu'aujourd'hui.
Je peux volontiers t'envoyer les paroles de la caravelle et d'algérie, mais donne- moi ton adresse email, en m'écrivant depuis mon site.

En attendant, meilleures salutations.
Olivier Mottet
Olivier Mottet 2006/1/10 - 19:13
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Triviale Poursuite

Triviale Poursuite
Io sono una vera fan di Renaud, per quanto lo si possa essere dall'Italia.
Bella sorpresa anche per me ritrovare "visage pale" citato su un sito Italiano.
E infatti l'ho linkato sul mio blog!

nandina_oltrelospecchio@yahoo.it

http://nandinasworld.blogspot.com
Nandina 2006/1/10 - 16:21
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Andrea

Andrea
Chiedo scusa, ma credo che l'mp3 che ho appena postato non si riferisca ad una versione cantata da Fabrizio De André, bensì da Alberto Napolitano dei "Buonenuove"... mi ha tratto in inganno la voce piuttosto simile a quella (ineguagliabile) di Fabrizio...
Alessandro 2006/1/10 - 14:09
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GUILLAUME SEZNEC: [7] Seznec est innocent!

GUILLAUME SEZNEC: [7] Seznec est innocent!
Versione inglese di Riccardo Venturi
January 10, 2006 / 10 gennaio 2006
SEZNEC IS INNOCENT !
(Continues)
2006/1/10 - 10:24

Tutto è finito, la morte è ormai decisa

Anonymous
Canzone legata alla vicenda di Sacco e Vanzetti, segnalataci dall'instancabile Alessandro, che la ricorda cantata dalla sua nonna paterna. Sembra che il testo non sia completo e manca il titolo (scegliamo quindi, secondo l'uso corrente, di utilizzare come titolo il primo verso).

Della canzone si parla in un articolo di Lele Odiardo su "Umanità Nova" (n. 28 dell'8 settembre 2002):

Nonostante il fascismo, le vicende di Sacco e Vanzetti entrano nell'immaginario popolare e suscitano una spontanea solidarietà ...

In quegli anni le notizie arrivavano, ancor prima che attraverso i giornali, con i cantastorie che si esibivano nelle piazze i giorni di festa e di mercato. L'indimenticato Tavio Cosio in un suo scritto riporta il testo di una canzone diffusa all'epoca.

Ricorda ancora il farmacista villafallettese: "La canzone in questione non ricordo se sia stata scritta nel 1927 o nel 1928, ma... (Continues)
Tutto è finito, la morte è ormai decisa
(Continues)
2006/1/9 - 18:04
Song Itineraries: Sacco and Vanzetti
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Sur le port de Dieppe

Sur le  port  de Dieppe
Louis Aragon / Gérard-André Gaillard
Le jour de Sacco-Vanzetti
(Continues)
Contributed by adriana 2006/1/9 - 17:42
Song Itineraries: Sacco and Vanzetti
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GUILLAUME SEZNEC: [6] La Délivrance

GUILLAUME SEZNEC: [6] La Délivrance
January 9, 2006
THE RELEASE
(Continues)
2006/1/9 - 13:34
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Naja de merda

Naja de merda
naja de merda è stata scritta da roberto perciballi
grazie roberto perciballi
x comunicare r.percy@tiscali.it
roberto 2006/1/9 - 13:28
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Love Of An Unknown Soldier

Love Of An Unknown Soldier
[April 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
David Rovics' Official Website


"For a beautiful Salvadoran woman I saw in a photo on the cover of the New York Times. I was sitting in a café in Seattle in November, 1989, while she was trying to overthrow the US-backed fascists in El Salvador. Standing majestically on a rooftop in San Salvador, dressed in fatigues and an AK. Too bad those SAM's got intercepted en route from Nicaragua." -David Rovics.

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved... (Continues)
I can only guess at where you came from
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/8 - 22:37
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They're Building A Wall

They're Building A Wall
[February, 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
http://David Rovics' Official Website

"For the apartheid wall in Occupied Palestine. Originally recorded in the spring of 2004 for Songs for Mahmud." -David Rovics.

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved in this decisively non-Luddite production. I recorded vocal and guitar tracks in Houston, and Kristine Pettersen (Thistle) did harmony vocals later in the same place, Sugar Hill Studios with John Griffin engineering. I sent the sound files... (Continues)
They're building a wall
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/8 - 22:21
Song Itineraries: The Palestinian Holocaust
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Berlin

Berlin
[April 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
http://www.davidrovics.com

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved in this decisively non-Luddite production. I recorded vocal and guitar tracks in Houston, and Kristine Pettersen (Thistle) did harmony vocals later in the same place, Sugar Hill Studios with John Griffin engineering. I sent the sound files up to Boston and in Tenitus Studios my friend Sean Staples laid down bass, mandolin, bouzouki, electric guitar, dobro and nylon string guitar... (Continues)
I saw it in a photo
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/8 - 22:08
Song Itineraries: The Berlin Wall, 1961-1989
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The Draft Is Coming

The Draft Is Coming
[September 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moments"
David Rovics' Official Website

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved in this decisively non-Luddite production. I recorded vocal and guitar tracks in Houston, and Kristine Pettersen (Thistle) did harmony vocals later in the same place, Sugar Hill Studios with John Griffin engineering. I sent the sound files up to Boston and in Tenitus Studios my friend Sean Staples laid down bass, mandolin, bouzouki, electric guitar, dobro and nylon string... (Continues)
The draft is coming
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/8 - 22:05

Lysistrata's War

Lysistrata's War
Music by Mark D. Williams
Lyrics by David Hamilton

An original Rock Opera by
David Hamilton and Mark D. Williams
Adapted from Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

Official Website

Libretto

Aristophanes' anti-war comedy Lysistrata, written in 411 BC, has female characters, led by the eponymous Lysistrata, barricading the public funds building and withholding consensual sex from their husbands to secure peace and end the Peloponnesian War. In doing so, Lysistrata engages the support of women from Sparta, Boeotia, and Corinth. All of them are at first aghast at the suggestion of withholding sex, but they finally agree and swear an oath to support each other. The woman from Sparta, Lampito, returns home to spread the word there.

The play also addresses the contribution that women could make to society and to policy making, but cannot because their views are ignored: All such questions are considered... (Continues)
2006/1/8 - 17:06
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Saddam Shame

Saddam Shame
Versione 2004
SADDAM SHAME
(Continues)
2006/1/8 - 16:25
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Life During Wartime

Life During Wartime
8 gennaio 2005
LA VITA IN TEMPO DI GUERRA
(Continues)
2006/1/8 - 16:19
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In The Spirit

In The Spirit
"So this song is my first anti-war song. This song is basically about the war and how it sucks and all that kind of stuff, but it's also about keeping a good attitude about how we have to change things and basically, kind of, rebuild our entire country from the ground up. From square one. And trying to keep a good attitude about it, 'cause there's a lot of work to do. But if we stay in a good mood and have a good time doing it then we have a better chance of pulling it off."
(Lisa Rein)
Sticks and stones won't make them go away
(Continues)
2006/1/8 - 15:50
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Who Would Jesus Bomb?

Who Would Jesus Bomb?
GESÙ CHI BOMBARDEREBBE?
(Continues)
2006/1/8 - 12:02
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How Far Is It From Here To Nuremberg?

How Far Is It From Here To Nuremberg?
[2005]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

*

"Riffing off of a Robb Johnson song (and a Pete Seeger song)."

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com
Is there a flag upon your house
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:57
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When Johnny Came Marching Home

When Johnny Came Marching Home
[2005]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

Oh, this is a web-only release and can be found in it's entirely in the "MP3... (Continues)
He got off the plane and looked at no one
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:52
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Waiting For The Fall

Waiting For The Fall
[2005]
Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

Oh, this is a web-only release and can be found in it's entirely in the "MP3 music" section of http://this Website. Click on the song titles below to check out the lyrics to each song.

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com
Helicopter missiles launch
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:50
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Four Blank Slates

Four Blank Slates
[2006]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

Oh, this is a web-only release and can be found in it's entirely in the "MP3 music" section of
this Website. Click on the song titles below to check out the lyrics to each song.

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com
Beside an unused union hall
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:46
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Before the Oil Wells Ran Dry

Before the Oil Wells Ran Dry
[2005]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From David Rovics' Official Website


Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

David Rovics.
Were you drinking wine from Argentina
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:43
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Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Halliburton Boardroom Massacre
[2005]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com
I joined the army when high school was through
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:38

The Plane That Wasn't There

The Plane That Wasn't There
[November 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Read more about this interesting situation at the website of the Shannon Peace Camp." -David Rovics.
The Irish constitution says
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:33

Martyr #2

[April 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Martyrdom, that is, knowingly giving your life for a cause, was not invented in Palestine, and is generally a revered concept world-wide. I think it should be seen in that light."
Crazy Horse stood on the hillside
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:31

Patriot

[April 2003]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Nationalists with low IQ's bug me almost as much as the smart ones." -David Rovics.
The president got on TV
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:29

King David

Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"King David was a butcher. Actually, it really depends on how you interpret things, but herein lies one possible interpretation." -David Rovics
All of my life I've heard the stories
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:26

Rogue State

[November 2002]
Lyrics by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com
With the force of arms they attacked their neighbors
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:25

Minnesota Gestapo

[July 2000]
Lyrics by David Rovics
Music by David Rovics and Rich Caloggero
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Since the protests in Seattle in November/December 1999, the cops/system has been reacting with calculated violence and intimidation to protests throughout North America and elsewhere. In July there was a particularly brutal incident in Minneapolis." -David Rovics
The Gestapo's on the march in Minnesota
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:19

A Song For NATO

[May 1999]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Here's one from May, 1999. Pretty self-explanatory. Stop the war." -David Rovics
An oil slick is floating down the Danube
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:15

Martyr

[1998]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

" I'm not saying what's right or wrong in this song, just what's real. You reap what you sow, and that applies to the USAF, the IMF and the CIA, too. I was thinking, after the late December bombings in Iraq, of a news article I read back in '91. Apparently, tens of thousands of men from Jordan were volunteering for the Iraqi armed forces, wanting to serve the cause of anti-imperialism. In the section of the application forms where they were asked of their qualifications for serving in the military, thousands replied with only one word: "martyr."- David Rovics.
One soldier stood among the rubble
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 23:12
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Luis Posada

Luis Posada
2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Anti-Castro terrorist, free in Miami along with so many others of his kind." -David Rovics.

*


Il terrorismo asimmetrico: la vicenda di Luis Posada Carriles.

Gli USA ospitano in Florida il noto terrorista Luis Posada Carriles. Cuba protesta e ne chiede l'estradizione.

(19 aprile 2005)


Luis Posada Carriles è un noto terrorista. Meno noto di Bin Laden ma con un curriculum di tutto rispetto e sicuramente con più esperienza sul campo.

Collaboratore del regime cubano di Batista, passò, dopo la rivoluzione dei barbutos e il conseguente crollo del dittatore cubano, alle dipendenze della CIA e dei poteri forti statunitensi. Di lui si sà con certezza - è reo confesso di molti reati, omicidi e attentati - che operò per anni in vari stati del sud america tessendo,... (Continues)
Luis Posada lived in Havana
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 22:34

Drug War

Drug War
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com/

"The drug war has been won a long time ago -- by the CIA, who else?" -David Rovics.
I want to tell you something you should understand
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 22:29

When The Aliens Invaded America

Lyrics and Music by David Rovics

"Riffing on something Paul Watson said in a really good talk I just heard." - David Rovics.
What if aliens came from outer space
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 22:24
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Santiago

Santiago
November 2005
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
David Rovic's Official Website
2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away

"Another attempt at writing a song about the connection between 9/11/2001 and 9/11/1973. This time it worked."
-David Rovics.
As I looked out my window
(Continues)
Contributed by Adriana 2006/1/7 - 22:16
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Operation Iraqi Liberation

Operation Iraqi Liberation
Japanese version, from:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/anarchy/anarchy...

註:政府はほとんど全てのことについてほとんど一貫して嘘をついている。だが、国務省のバカが実際にやってきて、自分たちの侵略を「OIL」という頭字語を使って述べたときは、真実の瞬間だった。
イラク解放作戦(Operation Iraqi Liberation)
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 22:08
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Who Would Jesus Bomb?

Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Japanese version, from:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/anarchy/anarchy...

註:ヒューストンである種の地元の人たち(右翼宗教ゾンビたちだ)と時々話をしながら夏の大部分を過ごしていた。そのときに思いついた歌だ。
イエスは誰を爆撃するのだろう?(Who Would Jesus Bomb?)
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 22:05
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Jenin

Jenin
Japanese version, from:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/anarchy/anarchy...

註:イスラエルは、自分が蒔いた種の報いを受けている。分かっている。あまりにも残酷だ。それはここでも同じだ(詳しくはニューヨーク市を参照)。だが、好むと好まざるとに関わらず、これが現実なのだ。自分の道義的ガイガーカウンターにうまく適合しようとしまいと。平和は正義を通じて達成される。占領を終わらせよう。
ジェニン(Jenin)
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 22:02
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Nuclear War

Nuclear War
(1982)

Un espediente non spesso utilizzato nelle "protest song": rappresentare l'assurdità della guerra attraverso l'assurdità della musica. Anche il testo, a dire il vero, non è da meno...

Reinterpretata anche dalla rock band Yo La Tengo nel 2002.
Nuclear war.
(Continues)
2006/1/7 - 21:23
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Men In A War

Men In A War
Album: Days of Open Hand (1990)

"Men in a War" is about missing a piece of yourself, whether it's a physical piece or a part of your will or spirit. I put the woman in the song because I wanted to show these two people in opposite circumstances, both of them feeling incomplete. The man is feeling something he doesn't have, and the woman is not feeling something she has."
"The Open Hand Book - Notes on her New Album", Musician, 1991, also published in Language and in the Limited Edition of 99.9F° (http://www.vega.net/handbook.htm) transcribed by Eric Szczerbinski

(da The Rusted Pipe Web Site)
Men in a war
(Continues)
2006/1/7 - 19:24
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Povero Napoleone [Viva la Russia, viva la Prussia]

Anonymous
Povero Napoleone [Viva la Russia, viva la Prussia]
[1812-13]
Da "La musica dell'Altra Italia"

Nota anche come "Viva la Russia, viva la Prussia", si tratta senz'altro della canzone su Napoleone I più diffusa in tutta l'Italia settentrionale, entrata nel repertorio militare e di risaia; raccolta da Gianni Bosio e Roberto Leydi, 1962, Cologno al Serio, Bergamo.

Incisioni:

- Addio padre. La guerra di Belochio, di Palma e di Badoglio (reg. orig. Palma Facchetti)

- Sandra Mantovani: Il testamento dell'avvelenato EP (ried. Folk italiano)

- Bergamo e il suo territorio (reg. orig. Palma Facchetti)

Fonti:

- R. Leydi - I canti popolari italiani (tit. "Viva la Russia viva la Prussia") (m)

- G. Vettori - Il folk italiano. Canti e ballate popolari
Viva la Russia viva la Prussia
(Continues)
Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2006/1/7 - 00:37
Song Itineraries: Napoleon's Wars




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