Donna / Woman

Lyrics traditional / music Matilde Politi

Tu ti cridivi ca iu veru t'amava
nun li vidivi li me finti mmodi
Nun ti cridivi ca iu t'abburlava
e ca t'amava cu nissuna opinioni
Diu nni libbra si iu ci incappava
d'essiri schiava tua in suggizioni
Ca si sapia di veru ca t'amava
t'avia d'amari in disperazioni.

         Donna ca duni acqua a dui vadduni
         e 'un po' furmari mai ciumi currenti
         Donna c'amannu vai a tanti patroni
         e 'un li po' fari a tutti mai cuntenti
        Amanni unu cu cori custanti
  e l'autri levatilli di la menti
Picchì tu donna p'amarinni tanti
  t'abbruci ti cunsumi e nun fai nenti





You thought I really loved you
didn’t see the falsity of my ways
didn’t believe that I was teasing you
that I loved you without respecting you
god save me from stumbling into
being your slave and being in awe of you
if I knew that I loved you truly
it means I was loving you in despair

Woman, you pour water into two hollows
and never will you make a flowing river
Woman, you love so many masters
and never can you make them all happy
love just one man with a constant heart
and remove the others from your mind
because you woman loving so many men
you burn and wear yourself out and get nothing