Take 5: "Eleanora from Cremona": un canzone per Irma Zanetti
Caro Irma? It was so nice to see you again, yesterday (ieri), Wednesday (mercoledi?) when, - through working night & day on my new book - I thought it was FRIDAY (venerdi) and insisted you come TO my Friday night concert at Lady Chans, "LADY BAR" on the Via Mazzini (Piacenza) where I do a "piccolo concertina" EVERY friday (venerdi) night around 8pm...and thank you for assuming I had gone completely off my "rocker" & politely NOT correcting my obvious "time-lapse" and are waiting UNTIL (venerdi) friday...and then come WITH friends to my "piccolo concertina"!
(Ahem!)
Regardless?... "Ieri" (yesterday)....still thinking it WAS infact (venerdi) Friday...I dutifully showed up at Lady Chans LADY BAR, guitar in hand, played a "piccolo concertina" to the ever-present cool crowd & made a bunch of money and several new "amici" (friends) who insisted I play/perform a "tarantella"!
Thus? I wrote the following song (canzone), a "tarantella", on the spot and every one, along with "molto,tutte, bella vinos" had a fine old sing-song time!
Ergo? Dedicated to YOU, sweetie-pie? -here is the song: "Eleanora from Cremona"
...written on Lenudi (monday) or Sabatto (saturday) or whatever frickin (di giorgno) today actualy IS!
OK: "Eleanora from Cremona"
Eleanora from Cremona
She said she,d love me true,
Then she took me to Bologna
For minestrone soup!
Then we got the train to Roma
A dolce vita coup
Like Juliet, Verona
She had me by the noose!
(Everyone sing:) LA-La-La-La, etc., etc.
I wrote a postcard from Salerno
Mamma-mia e Amici (gasping for breath)...USA
Im stuck in old Calabria
Mia Amico,s gone away!
So I hitch hike to Brindisi
Shes nowhere to be found
Eleanora from Cremona
As gone to Napoli!
LA-la-La-La.La, etc., etc.
So I go to Viacenza
She,s (encore) nowhere to be found
I drink a beer in Piacenza
Get a hotel in Milan!
Dont you ever go to Torino
Cause Eleanora is living right THERE!
She broke my heart
And left me broke;
Eleanora!!!!!
(Buona Fortuna!)
Eleanora!!!!....from Cremona!!!!!
La-La-La-La, etc., etc.
OLE!
(Obviously, Irma? this is a song/canzone/tarantella that still needs a LEETLE bit of work!....)
c 2011/oct/our man in piacenza/dave delacroix/lord borgo/Hotel Dave/piacenza/italy/presently sober as a judge!/but things WILL change!...ole!
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