Tony58

<p class="ql-align-center"><span class="ql-emojiblot" data-name="sunglasses"><span contenteditable="false"><span contenteditable="false"><span class="ap ap-sunglasses">😎</span></span></span></span></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Well, I heard this song and I really liked the dance rhythm typical of Neapolitan tarantellas.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>I noticed too a similarity in cadence to traditional Russian music, and I think there is really this influence.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Although I didn't know the meaning of the lyrics. So I went researching, and here is the saga of this theme.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>If you like history, you will like it and expand your cultural knowledge.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>After getting Covid last month, here I am back - and healthy, thank God.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Thanks for listening! Sorry about closed comments.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Blessings, hugs &amp; smiles... xox</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Tony</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><span class="ql-emojiblot" data-name="rose"><span contenteditable="false"><span contenteditable="false"><span class="ap ap-rose">🌹</span></span></span></span></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center">The origin of 'Bella Ciao' comes from the resistance against fascism in Italy during the period of World War II.</p><p class="ql-align-center">'Bella Ciao' is an Italian folk song that became a symbol of resistance against Benito Mussolini's fascism during the Second World War period, in the late 1940s.</p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center">The word 'partigiano', which appears in the music, means partisan and refers to members of the Italian resistance movement.</p><p class="ql-align-center">There are historians who also claim that Bella Ciao had its origins in the late 19th century and was a popular chant among peasant women working in the rice fields in northern Italy at the time.</p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>The partisan, portami via (Oh, member of the Resistance, take me away)</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>The bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao (Honey, goodbye! Honey, goodbye! Honey, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!)</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>The partisan, portami via (Oh, member of the Resistance, take me away)</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>Ché mi sento di morir (Because I feel like I'm going to die)</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center">Here, the 'partigiano' are already mentioned. As stated earlier, 'partigiano' was the name in Italian given to the member of the country's resistance at that time.</p><p class="ql-align-center">They opposed fascism and Nazi occupation in Germany through an armed movement that lasted until the end of the war in 1945, when German troops surrendered and the war was won by the Allies.</p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>_ CS Songbook Version _ Normal Key (octave below) _ Take #2 _ 89 _ 100,0 _</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">- - - = BELLA CIAO = - - -&nbsp;</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>Christian Lösch &amp; Grupo Raoul Sanchez</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>Italian Folklore</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Una mattina mi sono alzato</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>O bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Una mattina mi son alzato</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>E ho trovato l'invasor.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>O partigiano, portami via,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>O bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>O partigiano, portami via,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Ché mi sento di morir.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>. . .</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>E se io muoio _ da partigiano,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>O bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>E se io muoio da partigiano,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Tu mi devi seppellir.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>_ Slow _</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>E seppellire lassù in montagna,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>O bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>E seppellire lassù in montagna,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Sotto l'ombra di un bel fior.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>La la la la - Hey hey hey hey!</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong><em>_ Fast _</em></strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Tutte le genti che passeranno,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>O bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Tutte le genti che passeranno,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Mi diranno: 'Che bel fior'!</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>È questo il fiore del partigiano,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>O bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>È questo il fiore del partigiano,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Morto per la libertà!</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>È questo il fiore del partigiano,</strong></p><p class="ql-align-center"><strong>Morto per la libertà! . . .&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p>