Ottomanelli - Jack Hardy

    Ottomanelli, i cugini e sua moglie
    oltre l'Atlantico vollero andar
    un contadino e l'altro un fornaio
    ed uno un pittore di pubblicità

    Ottomanelli seguiva un suo sogno
    di mangiare e bere e di vendemmiar
    fuggì dai Fascisti, fuggì dai Tedeschi
    per una cascina, lassù, nel nord-est

    [Chorus]
    E nella notte, nel freddo dell'ombra
    pensava al suo sogno, alla patria d'un di , 
    cercando di poter mettere a fuoco
    in quel barlume, Gesù, segui ,

    Credeva nel Papa, così, ebbe figli
    più' bocche che han fame ma pur braccia in più 
    per munger le mucche, per portare il latte 
    per mietere il grano e per vendemmiar

    Dopo anni di pace, furon disturbati
    da dei venditori di altre città
    i figli, ormai grandi, cercaron lavoro
    per comprar le cose che non eran la

    Quello più grande trovò per lavoro: 
    congegni di mira per Colt M-Sixteens
    molto richiesti per la guerra in Asia
    con gli straordinari, così s'arricchì ,

    Un giorno guardava, in TV, la partita 
    bevendo una birra, mangiando popcorn
    "sospendiam il programma per darvi notizia 
    la guerra e' finita col vostro lavor"

    Ottomanelli, oramai, era vecchio
    più non coltivava la sua proprietà
    vendute ha le mucche perché non poteva 
    competer con le latterie di città

    Nessuno poteva far il suo mestiere
    ne' mietere il grano e ne' vendemmiar
    il terreno è richiesto per costruir case
    così dove vai quando il sogno tuo va

    Translation © 1983 by Germana Pucci

    Ottomanelli, his wife and two cousins
    had crossed the atlantic to see what they'd find
    one was a farmer and one was a baker
    and one was a painter, a maker of signs

    Ottomanelli had one dream above all
    to eat and to drink and to make wine in peace
    he'd run from the fascists, he'd run from the germans 
    he'd now run a dairy farm in the northeast

    [Chorus]
    Late in the night he grew cold in the shadows
    tried to recall his homeland his dream
    and all to what end were they following jesus
    trying to focus and follow the gleam

    Because he believed in the pope he had children
    I there were more mouths to feed but more hands to help 
    to milk all the cows and deliver the produce
    to cut all the corn and make wine in the fall

    The years that were peaceful they soon were unsettled 
    by salesmen come calling with things they don't need 
    the children grew older the children grew bolder
    went looking for jobs to buy all those things

    The oldest went out took a job in a factory
    making the gunsights for colt M-sixteens
    they were much in demand for a war off in asia
    so he worked overtime and grew wealthy and clean

    One day he was watching a televised ball game
    a can of budweiser and popcorn in hand
    "we interrupt program to bring you the great news
    the war it is over your jobs have been canned"

    Ottomanelli was too old to farm now
    the fields they lay fallow he sold all the cows
    he could not compete with the lobbying dairy-marts
    and their certified pasteurized homogenized now

    And no one had learned how to plant all the cornfields or help make the wine in the warm autumn sun
    the real estate people want land to build houses
    so where do you go when your dream is all done

    @ 1984 by John S. Hardy Music

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