1. Amici, amici, chi'n Palermu jiti, Mi salutati dda bedda citati, Mi salutati li frati e l'amici, Puru dda vicchiaredda di mè matri. 2. Spjàtini di mia chi si ni dici, Si li me' cosi sunnu cüitati; Giacchì, si voli Diu, comu si dici, Di novu ci haju a ghiri a libirtati.

1. Ah, friends and comrades all, who forth are faring, My love to fair Palermo ye are bearing; A greeting give to all my friends, my brother, A tender greeting, too, for my old mother. 2. See what in town they all of me are saying, And see if my affair is growing quiet; For then, if God so will as I am praying, My longing eye in freedom soon shall spy it.

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Marzo, Eduardo. Songs of Italy; sixty-five Tuscan, Florentine, Lombardian and other Italian folk- and popular songs. New York: G. Schirmer, 1904. 172

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