1. Asco, Gianetta, ti vouesti lougar, Laliretta, Asco, Gianetta, ti vouesti lougar? Nenni, ma maïre, mi voueli maridar, Laliretta, Nenni, ma maïre, mi voueli maridar! 2. Jeou voueli un home, qui vende de tabac, Siñ saou lou rouze et douge lou mouscat. 3. Quand vou calignoung, vous proumettoung proung, Et quand vous tegnoung, vous dognoung dou bastoung!

1. Tell me, Gianetta, do you care to wed? Laliretta! Tell me, Gianetta, do you care to wed? Oh, Mother darling, the very word you've said! Laliretta! Oh, Mother darling, the very word you've said! 2. I want a man who keeps a 'baccy-shop, Five for the light ones, and ten the fancy crop. 3. They promise fairly, while they're courting you, And when they've got you, they beat you black and blue!

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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. 3

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