JUL 30, singable satire (filastrocca): "PISA'S LEAN TRATTORIA"

 PARODY LYRICS

MUSICAL UNDERPINNINGS: "Santa Lucia" was a traditional song in the Neapolitan language, describing the appeal of an evening boat trip on the harbor in the Borgo (district of) Santa Lucia of Naples; it became a popular song after its translation into Italian by Teodoro Cottrau in 1849; it was the first Neapolitan song to undergo such a change during early enthusiasm for Italian reunification. It has been performed and recorded (links to Youtube) by many operatic singers e.g. Caruso, Lanza, Pavarotti and Bocelli, and also by Elvis Presley.  

PARODY COMPOSED: Giorgio Coniglio, January, 2018. (The skeptical reader may surmise that the substituted lyrics are, in fact, about food intolerance), but the Italian setting and song make for a more enchanting experience.

In the original Italian song, lines are frequently repeated; for simplicity, the repetitions are not included here in the parody-lyrics.

UKULELE and GUITAR-FRIENDLY LINK: Our whole series of songs can be found in a friendly format for ukulele (and guitar)-players on our sister blog "SILLY SONGS and SATIRE" with chord-charts for both the parody and original song, as well as helpful performing suggestions. 

 find ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany "PISA'S LEAN TRATTORIA" on your favorite instrument, click HERE.  

WORDPLAY LINK: An expanded version of these lyrics, slightly modified to suit the format, form part of a poetic submission on our sister blog "Edifying Nonsense" entitled Limericks About Food Intolerance; as this offering told its novel story with four limerick verses, it has been designated 'a brief saga'.

filastrocca: Italian for "nursery rhyme', 'fable','doggerel', or 'rigmarole'.

filastrocca: THE LEAN TRATTORIA OF PISA

(to the tune of "Santa Lucia") 

CHORUS

Sul mare luccica, l’astro d’argento

Placida è l’onda, prospero il vento.

Venite all’agile, barchetta mia;

Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia!

Sneaking treats from his own gelateria,

Gino was suffering frank diarrhea,

“Flatus: such awful gas; gelati? I’d better pass."

Bought a bakery(a) , now lives lactose-free-a.

Reprise: Where is Gino? Let's look and see, ah!

Tasting dough in his pasticceria,

“Food-induced ills persist; physicians, they now insist 

I should call it quits, and .. exist gluten-free-a." 

Fat-free meals: Gino dreamed this fine idea

For his food enterprise number th(a)ree-a

(He had grown quite obese, once GI symptoms ceased) – 

Now he'd start up Pisa's 'Lean Trattoria'.

Repeat CHORUS.