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Ritornello delle Lavandare del Vomero (Refrain of the Washerwomen of Vomero)
Naples (Campania)
1.
Tu m'aje prommise quatto muccatora:
Oje muccatora! oje muccatora!
Io sò benuto se...
Io sò benuto se mme le vuò dare,
Mme le vuò dare, mme le vuò dare!
2.
E se no quatto, embè dammene doje,
Chillo ch'è 'ncuollo a te n'è robba toja.
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1.
You promised me four kerchiefs, yes, four kerchiefs,
O yes, four kerchiefs! O yes, four kerchiefs,
And I have come to see—
And I have come to see if they are ready,
If they are ready, if they are ready!
2.
And if there are not four, why, give me two, then:
The one is not your own that you are wearing.
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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. 141
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