Catena - Carlo Buti w/Translation

Catena - Chain by Santoro - Rossetti
Another song of unrequited love... Ah, how Italians suffer for love. After all if you don't suffer can it really be love?
Anyway - Here's the original lyrics and my translation.
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CATENA
Nun mme vuó' bene?
E dimme, comme mm''o ppuó' dí?
Tu si' guagliona...
Ll'ammore nun 'o ppuó' capí!
Ch'aggi''a fá, pe' me è destino...
Pe' st'uocchie belle tanto
aggi''a suffrí?

Pe' me tu si' catena...
Pe' ll'ate si' Maria...
Io perdo 'a vita mia,
Maria! Marí', pe' te!
Tu nun mme dice maje,
maje na parola!...
Dimme na vota sola:
"Te voglio bene"
e po' famme murí!

Tu cante e ride...
e mme turmiente 'a giuventù...
Io mme ne moro,
ma sempe 'a stessa rieste tu!
Mamma chiagne e, a tutte ll'ore,
mme dice: "Figlio, nun 'a
penzá cchiù!"


Pe' me tu si' catena...
Pe' ll'ate si' Maria...
Io perdo 'a vita mia,
Maria! Marí', pe' te!
Tu nun mme dice maje,
maje na parola!...
Dimme na vota sola:
"Te voglio bene"
e po' famme murí!

Dimme na vota sola:
"Te voglio bene"
e po' famme murí!

CHAIN
Don't you love me?
tell me, you can say it?
You are but a girl ...
You cannot understand love.
but for me it is our destiny.
Oh those beautiful eyes
How they make me suffer?

For me you are a chain ...
to the others you are just Mary.
But to me you are my life,
Mary! Mary, You never say
a word to me. Tell me once:
"I love you"
And then I shall die happy!

You sing and laugh ...
you torment my youth ...
I wish I was dead,
But it's always the same with you!
my mother cries and, tells me:
"Do not think of her"

For me you are chain ...
to the others you are just Mary.
But to me you are my life,
Mary! Mary, You never say
a word to me. Tell me once:
"I love you"
And then I shall die happy!

Just Tell me once:
"I love you"
And then I shall die happy!

Santoro - Rossetti