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Here
is a directory of songs that might be listened to during one of our concerts.
The author�s name is shown under each song, so that one can better understand
the importance that songs composed by us have in our repertoire. Songs written
by each of the tenores di Neoneli.
Songs which we perform only in the NeonElio original production are not included.
SERENADA TRISTA
This
is our concerts� opening song. A sonnet in which we synthesis the spirit with
which our songs are sung. Rhythm to Sa
seria and Passu torrau.
Como ti canto cun custu tenore
una cantone bella e atonada,
cust'istrumentu antigu, de valore,
faghet su ballu cun sa serenada.
De serenare animu no b'ada,
bella, perdona custu cantadore,
si ti cantat s'afannu e su dolore,
cun sa oghe melodica e atristada.
Cando in su mundu s'odiu e su piantu
suni dominadores in tot�e,
non podet esser dulche custu cantu,
ma si regnat sa paghe e s'armonia,
comente lu cumprendes finas tue,
tando t'ap' a cantare s'allegria.
Tonino Cau
Sad serenade
Now i will sing you, in this tenor, a beautiful, invigorating song, this antique, gallant instrument is good to dance or to make a serenade but there is no desire to serenade, my beautiful, forgive this singer if he sings you pain and anxiety with his melodic, saddened voice. Whilst the world is full of mate and weeping, my song cannot be sweet, but, as you'll understand, should peace and harmony rule i would sing cheerful songs.
S�Innu
de su patriotu sardu a sos feudatarios
Perhaps
one of the most popular traditional Sardinian songs, better known as Barones sa tirannia, written by Francesco Ignazio Mannu of Ozieri in
1794 (or 1796, according to some researchers) to inveigh against the
Piemontese�s feudal system who during that sad and dark period, humiliated
Sardinia and it�s inhabitants. The hymn consist of 47 strophes each with 8
verses (eight syllables). We published the first ten and the last, together with
the poetic translation that Nuoresean Sebastiano Satta wrote in �La Nuova
Sardegna� newspaper, in occasion of this centenary hymn. Various rhythms (a
ballu tundu, a gocios, a ballu cantau)
(the first ten strophe)
Procurad''e moderare,
Barones, sa tirannia,
Chi si no, pro vida mia,
Torrades a pe' in terra!
Declarada e' gi� sa gherra
Contra de sa prepotenzia,
E cominza' sa passienzia
In su pobulu a faltare.
Mirade chi est azzendende
Contra de 'ois su fogu,
Mirade chi no e' giogu,
Chi sa cosa andat 'e veras;
Mirade chi sas aeras
Minettana temporale;
Zente consizzada male,
Iscultade sa oghe mia.
No appretedas s'isprone
A su poveru ronzinu,
Si no in mesu caminu
S'arrempellat appuradu;
Minzi ch'es lanzu e cansadu
E non de pode' piusu;
Finalmente a fundu in susu
S'imbastu nd'hat a bettare.
Su pobulu chi in profundu
Letargu fi' sepultadu
Finalmente despertadu
S'abbizza ch'est in cadena,
Ch'ista' suffrende sa pena
De s'indolenzia antiga:
Feudu, legge inimiga
A bona filosofia.
Che ch'esseret una inza
Una tanca, unu cunzadu,
Sas biddas hana donadu
De regalu a bendissione;
Comente unu cumone
De bestias berveghinas
Sos homines e feminas
Han bendidu cun sa cria.
Pro pagas mizas de liras,
E tale olta pro niente,
Isclavas eternamente
Tantas pobulassiones,
E migliares de persones
Servint a unu tirannu.
Poveru generu humanu
Povera Sarda Zenia!
Deghe o doighi familias
S'han partidu sa Sardigna,
De una manera indigna
Si nde sun fattas pobiddas;
Divididu s'han sas biddas
In sa zega antighidade:
Per� sa presente edade
Lu pensat rimediare.
Nasche' su Sardu soggettu
A milli cumandamentos;
Tributos e pagamentos
Chi faghet a su Segnore,
In bestiamen e laore,
In dinari e in natura;
E paga' pro sa pastura,
E paga' pro laorare.
Meda innantis de sos feudos
Esistiana sas biddas,
Et issas fini pobiddas
De saltos e biddatones.
Comente a bois, Barones,
Sa cosa anzena es passada?
Cuddu chi bos l'ha' dada
Non bos la podia' dare.
Non es mai presumibile
Chi voluntariamente
Happa' sa povera zente
Zedidu a tale derettu;
Su titulu 'ergo est infettu
De infeudassione,
E i sas biddas reione
Tenen de l'impugnare....
....Si no calchi die a mossu
Bo nde segade' su didu,
Como ch'e' su filu ordidu
A bois toccat a tessere;
Minzi chi poi det essere
Tardu s'arrepentimentu;
Cando si tene' su bentu:
Es prezisu bentulare.
Francesco Ignazio Mannu
The
sardinian patriot against the feudatory hymn
Baron,
try to stop tyranny, otherwise you will tumble to the ground for my life! War
has been declared against arrogance, and the people are beginning to loose their
patience. Watch out� fire is burning into flame against you, all this is not a
game, it�s real; think that the black sky threatens a storm; people pushed
into doing bad, listen to my voice spur no more the poor donkey, or we will stop
stubbornly half way; he is to cramped to go on, and finally he must throw
off his pack-saddle.
The
folk, from a deep, obscure hibernation, feels totally despaired, they feel their
chains, they know they must suffer the pain of antique indolence feud, enemy law
and all good things!
It
seems like a vineyard or an olive grove or an enclosure, they have consumed
villages and land, they gave them and exchanged them like a herd of iil-bred
sheep, man and children sold with their wives. They have made the entire
population slaves, for little money and sometimes for nothing, thousands and
thousands of people bowing to a sovereign miserable human beings, miserable
Sardinian race!
Few
families unworthily left Sardinian, and our beautiful land was to make up for
what happened then. A Sardinian is born, subject to a king, commandments, he
must give tributes and payments to the sovereign: cattle, corn, money and
nature; he pays for pasture, he pays to sew seeds.
Even
before the feuds, the villages flowered delightfully with fields, vineyards,
pine trees and sheaves; now like you, barons, is all of this over? He who gave
it to you, couldn�t give it to you. No one can infer that many poor people
willingly through themselves down before you; your titles smell of infeudation,
the villains have good reason to rebel ...
...Those
who remained still one day, didn�t dare to bite their finger, now that the
cloth is warred give a hand to heave. Later, you could one day show repentance,
when the wind gets up and needs to trash.
FINAS A CANDO?
A song on the enviroment, a series of worried "I don't knows" with regards the destiny of some of our rare enviromental pearls which fortunately still withstand on our island.
No isco si sa
gent'orrubia
in su Sinis ancora at a olae,
no isco si pische in su mare
e in pisch�ra si nd'at a piscae.
FINAS A CANDO
AP'A PORTAE
ALIDU IN CORPUS PO CANTAE,
CANTIGOS DE CUSTA GENIA
AP'A CANTAE CUN SA OGHE MIA.
No isco si in
su cumonale
linna ancora si nd'at a agatae,
no isco si in su Campidanu
terras fertiles ant a bundae.
No isco si su
mare nostu
bellu e limpiu ancora at a abbarrae,
no isco si in su Supramonte
buscos innidos ant a urae.
No isco si
cuaddos in Giara
chentinaias si nd'at a contae,
no isco si in sas forestas
mruvas e crebos aus a amirae.
No isco si in
sas funtanas
abbas puras aus a bufae
no isco si sas saborias
frutas de monte aus a papae.
No isco si s'isula
bella
nessi che a oe t'as a cunservae.
FINAS A CANDO
AP'A PORTAE
ALIDU IN CORPUS PO CANTAE,
CANTIGOS DE CUSTA GENIA,
AP'A CANTAE CUN SA OGHE MIA,
CANTIGOS DE CUSTA GENIA
AP'A CANTAE ANCORA O GENTE MIA.
Tonino Cau
Until
when?
I
don�t now if the flamingoes will still fly over Sinis, I don�t now if will
we still find fish in the sea and at the fishmongers.
AS
LONG AS MY BODY HAS BREATH TO SING, I WILL SING SONGS LIKE THIS WITH MY VOICE.
I
don�t now if there will still be firewood for everyone on the common land, I
don�t now if Campidano will have plenty of fertile land. I don�t now if are
sea will remain beautiful and clean, I don�t now if the Supramonte�s virgin
forest last. I don�t now if we will still be able to count the Giara�s
ponies in hundreds, I don�t now if we will still admire wild boar and mouflons
in the forests. I don�t now if we will still drink pure water from the
fountains, I don�t now if we will still eat the country�s tasty fruit. I
don�t now if it will continue to be the beautiful island, as it is today.
AS
LONG AS MY BODY HAS BREATH TO SING, I WILL SING SONGS LIKE THIS WITH MY VOICE, I
WILL STILL SING SONGS LIKE THIS, MY PEOPLE.
ZIU
MEU
A song about the older generation, taken from a true story. Rhythm Passu �e trese.
Poberu ziu meu,
de custa via ite nd'has gosadu?
Ti che ses imbezzadu
patinde, cun piantu e cun anneu,
semper preghende a Deus
de non restare solu, abbandonadu,
invece ses fiudu,
senza unu cane pro ti dare azzudu.
Ca s'emigrazione
fizos tuos han devidu affrontare,
e mancu a mandigare
ti bastat cussa misera pensione,
sa debile persone
giughet sos sinnos de su tribulare,
de cando ses naschidu,
e pro tottu su male chi has bidu.
Tonino Cau
My
uncle
Poor
uncle, what have enjoyed in life? You have grown old suffering from anxiety, in
tears, always praying to god not to be left alone, and instead you�re a widow
and not even a dog gives you a hand. Because your sons had to emigrate and your
pension isn�t sufficient even to feed you, your weak body shows signs of
suffering since when you where born, caused by all the troubles.
A
GAVINU
A
song dedicated to our friend Gavino, of Osilo, an extremely talented man who is
compelled to a wheel-chair due to a congenital physical handicap rhythm to Passu
�e trese.
Pesadinde,
Gavinu,
e pesa, ahi�, ite faghes gas�e ?
Gioga liberu, e rie,
cun sos pizzinnos, fora, in su caminu,
lassa cussu tra�nu,
ca b'est sa vida ch'isettad'a tie,
le�di unu cunsolu,
bae in s'a�ra, che puzone in bolu.
Beru ca ses
cravadu
sena poder chinnire sa carena,
e supportas sa pena
cun sa passienzia de unu biadu,
ma sa mente serena,
nessi cussa sa sorte t'hat lassadu.
E has astru 'e poesia
e sensibilidade e fantasia.
Tonino Cau
To
Gavino
Get
up Gavino, be brave, what are you doing? Play i freedom and laugh with the
children, outside in the street, leave your wheelchair behind, life is waiting
for you, satisfy yourself and fly like a bird in the sky. It�s true you are
immobilised and you can�t move your body, you bear your pain with the patience
of a saint, but at least destiny has left you calm in your mind. And you have
the gift of poetry and lots of sensibility and imagination.
AMORE
LONTANU
A
delicate love song, in this case between two people compelled to live fair away
from each other due to emigration. He works abroad and can�t wait to return to
his country forever, to live with his promised bride. Rhythm attained from the
religious tradition, such as Gocios de
Chida santa.
Pensende j�
s� a tie
recreu 'e s'anima mia,
su coro est fritu che nie
ca non t'apo in cumpanzia.
Non timas
prenda 'e oro
si como non m'as presente,
ca t'apo sempre in sa mente
ti juto sempre in su coro.
Sas oras
parente dies,
sas dies annos intreos,
e pianghen sos ojos meos
mancari chi non los bies.
Eo non de bio
s'ora
de nos torrare a unire,
ca non cherzo pius sufrire
pensende a tie chi ses fora.
Es' dolorosu
pro me
ancora a biver lontanu,
ti cherzo istringher sa manu
e biver sempre cun te.
Angh�la, eo
cher�a,
eternamente restare
acanta e te' pro ti amare
pro tota sa vida mia.
Tonino Cau
Distant
love
I�m
thinking of you, the comfort of my soul, my heart is cold like snow because you
aren�t with me. Don�t worry, my golden pearl, if we aren�t together at the
moment, because you ale always in my heart and on my mind. The hours seem like
days and the days seem like years and my eyes cry, even though you can�t see
them. I can�t wait for the moment when we will be together once more, because
I don�t want to suffer any more thinking of you outside of the country. It is
painful for me to live far away, I want to hold your hand and live with you
forever. Angela, I want to stay with you eternally and love you for all of my
life.
A
BALLU A BALLU
A
song dedicated to those fond of Sardinian traditions, especially those fond of
the ballu sardu dancers. Rhythm: to Ballu
tzopu.
A ballu, a
ballu, su balladore
lassat a parte su malumore,
a ballu, a ballu, sa ballariana,
de si divertet gia' tenet gana.
Peppeloisu, su pesadore,
cantat a ballu cun su tenore.
Giughend'in buca sa trunfa sola
sonant a ballu Ivo e Nicola,
e calincunu ballu cantau
cantat a bortas Tonino Cau.
Tonino Cau
To
dance, to dance
The
male dancer looses his bad mood dancing, the female dancer wants to enjoy
herself dancing. Pelleloisu, the soloist, sings and dances with the choir, Ivo e
Nicola play and dance with a Jew harp in their mouths, and Tonino Cau sometimes
sings a dancing song.
EPURU
ANDAT
It
speaks of time and it�s fast and ruthless rush, which devours everything on
it�s way, fortunately leaving the memory, which man needs in order to carry
on, to live. Music similar to Ave Maria of rosaries typical of the procession.
Tempus chi
andas, currende abbia,
e chi in s'andare che leas totu,
siat eretu o siat trotu,
totu che mundas in d'una ia,
ma sa memoria resistit, bia,
e restat nessi, de su connotu,
s'ammentu in conca, bene imprimidu,
cussu su tempus non l'at bochidu.
EPURU ANDAT,
EPURU ANDAT,
EPURU ANDAT E SIGHIT A ANDARE.
E passat nie,
abba cun bentu,
fogu, sicagna e astra�re,
pestas e gherras de ogni colore,
dies de gosu e de turmentu,
e terremotos, inquinamentu,
disamistades, prantu e dolore.
Gai su tempus sighit a andare
ma sa memoria at a restare.
Tonino Cau
And
it still goes on
Time
it goes, always rushing and which devours everything as it passes, right things
and wrong things, you sweep everything away in one go, but the memory resists,
alive and least a memory of the past remains, well imprinted, this time has not
killed.
And
still it goes, and still it goes and continues to go.
And
snow, rain and wind fire, ice and draught, plagues and war of every kind pass,
days of joy and of torment, and earthquakes pollution, extermination, crying and
pain. Times continue to go ahead likes this but the memory will remain.
AMISTADE
It
means �brotherhood�, �benevolence�, exactly the opposite to cease to
love, obviously. Rhythm:
a Ballu cantau or a Ballu tundu a tenore.
AMISTADE,
AMISTADE,
CHERES, TERRA ISSAMBENADA
DE SARDIGNA, E FUNESTADA
DE TANTA BARBARIDADE.
O Sardigna, t'an pienu
su coro, prupas e venas,
cun sas mortales cadenas
de odiu e de velenu,
dae su tempus serenu
tue ses abbandonada.
De omicidios
e de furas
intendimus ogni die,
ma suni bochinde a tie
totu custas isventuras,
e sas persones, seguras,
no andan mancu in s'istrada.
A sos
aministradores
los isparan a s'ischina,
ancora non b'at meghina
contra sos sequestradores,
chi si cherene sennores
cun cosa anzena furada.
Chi si peset
unu entu
chi che mundet su machine
dae conca 'e ogni omine,
e ogni brutu sentimentu
sichet dae fundamentu
che sa terra abbrujada.
Si su male e
su terrore
cun sos malos, tot'a pare,
non resessin a firmare,
as a perder cudd'onore:
d'esser terra de valore
in tot�e lumenada.
Tonino Cau
Amisty
Amisty, amisty, do you want Sardinia bloodshed by lots of barbarousness. Oh
Sardinia, they have filled your heart, flesh and blood, with mortal chains of
hate and poison, and the calm weather abandoned you. We hear theft and killing
spoken of every day. But these misfortunes are killing you, and people can�t
even walk the streets safely. They shoot administrators in the back and we still
don�t see a solution to the sequesters who what to be gentlemen by robbing
others. That we can make a wind capable of
blowing away madness from men�s heads rise, and which drys the roots of
bad will from foundation, just like burnt land is dry. If evil and fear together
the authors, can�t stop, we will loose the honour of being nominated as valued
land.
SU BALLU 'E SU FOGU
The
fire dance. A song known all over Sardinia and sung by many other artists. No
need to beat about the bush: we speak of fire we curse the pyromans. Rhythm: a
Ballu cantau (with trunfa, launeddas,
accordion, triangle) the final to gocios.
Monodic song perhaps one of the Neoneli choirs most well known songs. Some one
has said that the composition�s value is equal to Barones sa tirannia others
Ballata di Pratobello. However, it is well loved.
LOS AN FALADOS A FOGUSOS MONTES DE IDDA MIA
A CRABONE ALLUTU EBBIA
AN REDUIDU SU LOGU.
In s'ierru s'astra�retotu cantu at ruinadu
sa pastura nd'at sicadu
at distrutu su la�re,cussu nordicu rigore
at batidu annada mala,
e arrivan da ogn'ala
lamentos de carest�a.
In s'ist�u est arrivadasa desertica sicagna,
mancu s'aria de muntagna
podet esser respirada,
e sa zente est ispantada
de ider cussu sicore,
cun totu custu calore
parimus in Alger�a.
Epuru b'at zente indignachi a su male azunghet male,
cun d'un'ira criminale
at brusiadu sa Sardigna,
razza perfida, maligna,
sa chisina at semenadu,
in Barbagia, in Barigadu,
Nurra, Sulcis, Baron�a.
Impunidos sos balentessa natura sun bochinde,
a desertu reduinde,
suni tancas e padentes,
cussos crobos puzzolentes,
cheren totu avvelenare,
los devimus isolare
che canes peri sa ia.
Los devian cundennarea brusiare lentamente,
subra su crabone ardente,
finas a si ch'istudare,
in manera chi pro�repotan cussu bellu giogu,
in manera chi in su fogu
lassen sa piromania.
Como azis totu brusiadue tantas vidas distrutu,
como chi azis allutu
su irde chi fit restadu,
ite azis balanzadu
ischifosos assassinos ?
Miserabiles cainos,
morzedas in agon�a !
Poberitos innozentes,miserina cussa sorte
ohi, ite cudrele morte
sos cudreles bos han dadu,
in piantu hana lassadu
isposas, mamas e fizos,
a pagare sos fastizos
de cussa zega man�a.
De su rimorsu in su lettunon potana reposare,
e in cella a frazigare,
los lassene a abba e pane,
arrabbiados chei su cane
chi sian de su dolore,
infines unu puntore
chi nd'isperdat sa zen�a.
Sardigna, terra brusiada,terra 'e fogu e de afannos,
non permitas custos dannos,
lassa istare su sufrire,
impresse faghe fu�redisonestos e foghistas,
chi t'an semper, egoistas,
ispulpadu sende b�a.
Tonino Cau -luglio 83
The
fire dance
They have burnt my country mountains, leaving only scorching coals. Winter�s
freezing cold has ruined everything dried our pastures and destroyed are sowing,
that severe northerner caused a bad year and cries of famine came from
everywhere. Then with summer the desert draught arrived and even the mountain
air was unbreathable, people were truly amazed to see such a drought, with that
heat it seemed like being in Algeria. And yet for worthless people it gets worse:
Sardinia is burning with criminal rage, a wicked, malicious breed, they planted
the ashes in Barbagia, Barigadu, Nurra, Sulcis, Baronia. Unpunished, hooligans
are killing nature, turning many forests into desert, those stinking crows want
to poison everything, like stray dogs we will have to isolate them. We should
sentence them to burn slowly over burning coals, until putting them out, so that
leave piromancy in the fire. They have burnt my country�s mountains, leaving
only burning coals. Now you have burnt everything, and destroyed many lives, now
that you have turned the surviving green to ashes, what have you earnt?
Miserable murderers, I hope you die in agony. Poor innocent ones, our destiny is
miserable, what a cruel death those cruel ones gave you, you have left fathers
mothers and children crying, to pay for the troubles caused by that blind
madness. I hope that remorse doesn�t let you rest, and that you are left to
rot in a cell, on water and bread, that you are as angry as dogs, suffering, and
final that an incurable illness exterminates your breed. Sardinia, burnt and
sorrowed land, don�t allow this damage any more, and stop suffering, let the
dishonest and the pyromans who have egoistically burnt you alive flee quickly.
UNU
SONNU
Mans�
dream of peace: peace the songs tells of the years of Gorbaciov and Reagan. In
the dream the two world leaders of their time sip some good Cannonau
wine in the shade of a nuraghe, and
talk of peace and a future without weapons. Rhythms:
pastorella.
Irisero
apo sonnau
su capu russu cun s'americanu,
e nan ca anta chistionau
de faer su bene a su genere umanu.
A SU MANCU CHI SIAT GAI:GHERRA DE NON DE BIER MAI.
DAE SA TERRA DE SU NURAGHE,
UNA FORTE OGHE DE PAGHE.
Bufando una tassa 'e inude gherra mancu nd'anta lumenau,
e naianta continu:
su mundu depet esser disarmau.
Est a cumbatter unioscontra sa gana e donzi maladia,
chi pozzanta sos pipios
biver e crescher in bona armonia.
Custu sonnu no est beruma realtade podet diventae,
mancu un'omine sinceru
prus cosa bella podet disigiae.
In totu su mundu intreusonnanta totus custu sonnu meu:
de s'istringhere sa manu
su capu russu cun s'americanu.
A SU MANCU CHI SIAT GAI...
Tonino Cau
A
dream
Yesterday
I dreamt about the leaders of America and Russia and in my dream they spoke of
the good of mankind.
At least if it was like that: never seeing war from the land of nuraghes a
strong voice of peace.
Drinking a glass of wine, they continued to say that the world should be unarmed.
We need to fight together against hunger and disease, so that our children can
grow in harmony. This dream isn�t real but it can become reality, even a
sincere man couldn�t wish for more. Everyone all over the world has this
dream: that the Russian leader shakes hands with the American leader.
Bella mia...
One of the few songs from traditional test, orally interhed. Rhythms: to passu torrau.
Bella mia non bandes a messare,
ca su sole ti leat sa bellesa,
abba� si podest tenner finitesa,
finitesa �e ti porrer coiuare.
Bella mia non bandes a messare.
Popolare
My
beauty
My beauty don�t go to reap, because the sun could take away your beauty, try
to get married promptly. My beauty don�t go to reap.
Nanneddu
meu
A
letter to Nanni Sulis by Peppino Mereu, the grand poet of Tonara who died young.
Only a few strophes are brought back.
Nanneddu meu, su mundu est
gai
a sicut erat non torrat mai.
Semus in tempus de tirannia
infamidade e carestia,
como sos populos cascant che cane
gridande forte: cherimus pane.
Famidos nois semus papande,
pane e castanza e terra cun lande,
terra chi a fangu torrat su poberu
sena alimentu, sena ricoveru......
....Adiosu Nanni, tenedi a contufaghe su surdu, ghetadi a tontu
tanti lu ides: su mundu est gai,
a sicut erat non torrat mai.
A
letter to Nanni Sulis
My little Johnny, the world is as it is, and it will never be like it was before.
We live in times of tyranny, infamy and starvation, people lie like dogs,
shouting at the top of their voices: we wnat bread. We are hungry and we eat
bread and chestnuts, earth and acorns, earth that turns every poor man lacking
food and shelter to mud .... God-bye, little Johnny, take care of yourself,
pretend to be deaf and stupid, as it is you can see, the world is like that, and
it will never be like it was before.
MA
COMENTE?
A
song, rhythm to sa seria, about the
carelessness with which often we reject our past and our processor�s lessons.
Ma comente si
faet
a imentigae totu
finas a oe su chi ch'est istau ?
Forzis non nosi praghet
de su chi aus connotu
nudda chi pozzat esser amentau,
in peruna materia?
Solu gana e miseria,
tristura e male in su tempus passau?
Epuru du at cosas
chi depeus chistie, valorosas.
Prus unios
fiaus
e prontos a agiudae
chie in apretu fiat, bisongiosu,
allirgos andaiaus
a monte a triballae
e de su pagu teniaus gosu,
sas festas s'intendiant
e totus ballaiant
dies intreas e sena reposu,
e in notes isteddadas
si faiant bellas serenadas.
Sa limba
sarda fiat
de tottus foeddada
e rispetadas sas tradissiones,
sa campagna pariat
cun talentu pintada,
prena de cassighedda e de sirbones.
Oe a totu custu
non di leaus gustu,
sunti cambiaos tempos e persones,
e ainnanti andaus
imentigando comente fiaus.
Tonino Cau
But
how?
How can we forget everything that has happened up until now? May be we don�t
like anything we�ve sees, of any kind, that is worth remembering? Only misery
and hunger, sadness and evil in the past? And yet there are valuable things
which we should preserve. We were more united, and more willing to help the
needy, we went to work happily in the fields and we were satisfied with very
little, everybody enjoyed so much the festivals and danced, whole days without
resting, and we held beautiful serenades under a clear, stary skies.
Everybody spoke the Sardinian language and everbody respected traditions, the
countryside seemed painted with artistic skill and it was populated with
wildlife. Today we don�t appreciate all that time and people have changed, and
we go on forgetting how we once were.
DEUS
TI SALVET MARIA
One
of the most beautiful and truly renowned traditional sardinian folk songs on
behalf of poor Maria Carta. The author is father Bonaventura Licheri, of Neoneli,
author, as mentioned in other parts of this brochure, of innumerous
prayers and hymns of praise dedicated to many saints.
Deus ti salvet, Maria
chi ses de grascias plena,
de grascias ses sa vena
e sa currente.
Su Deus onnipotentecun tegus est istadu,
pro chi t'at riservadu
immaculada.
Beneita e laudada,subr'a totus gloriosa,
mama, fiza e isposa
de su Segnore.
Beneitu su fiorechi est frutu de su sinu,
Gesus, fiore divinu,
Segnore nostru.
Pregade a fizu ostruchi totus sos errores,
a nois pecadores
nos perdonet.
E sa grascia nos donetin vida e in sa morte,
e sa diciosa sorte,
in paradisu.
Bonaventura Licheri di Neoneli.
God
will save you Maria.
God will save you Maria, you are full of thanks you are the inspiration and
courant of thanks, Almighty God, has made you immaculate and kept you that way:
Blessed and praised, above all glorious mother, daughter and bride of the Lord
blessed the flower, fruit of your breast, Jesus divine flower, our Lord. Pray to
your son so that he forgives all our mistakes and sins. And you give us thanks,
in life and in death, and a lucky destiny in heaven.
ANNINNIA
A
sweet lullaby, which contains the best wishes and auspices that, every parent
makes for the child that they cradle. Rhythm: folk sing-song.
Dromidi
in paghe, pipiu meu,paghe e fortuna tenzas de Deus,
paghe e fortuna, sa prenda mia,
bene e salude tenzas ebbia.
Chi non connoscas ite est affannu,
n� a minore e n� a mannu,su chi disizas tenzas a gosu,
sias onestu e virtudosu.
Bellu e istruidu chi sias puru,
e unu tribagliu tenzas seguru,
e sa natura in donzi logu,
rispetta semper, non ponzas fogu.
De zente ona faghedi amigu,
de sas intragnas sias inimigu,
ite est no iscas a emigrae
e una bella pozas amae.
E chi ti formes una famiglia
e bivas semper a meraviglia,
e de s'amore tenzas cunsolu,
e mai passes un'ora 'e dolu.
Tonino Cau
Lullaby
Sleep in peace, my baby, so god can give you luck and peace. Luck and peace my
pearl, so that you will know only health and all the best. So that you don�t
know anxiety, neither when your young nor old, that you can ejoy yourself as
much as you wish, be honest and virtuous. So that you can be beautiful and
educated and so that you can find a good job, and respectd nature, wherever,
don�t ever cause a fire. Become a friend of good people and an enemy of deceit,
so that you won�t know emigration and so that you can love a beautiful woman.
So that you can have a family and so you can always live marvellously, and that
you can have comfort from love, and that you never know an hour mourning.
MAMA
NON CHERET
A
song to passu torrau, played with launeddas
and accordion, triangle and sa trunfa,
in which they revive the chorus of a folk strophe, they stigmatise some of town
life�s out place and unspeakable behaviour.
Mama non cheret a m�imbriagareproite ca noghet meda a
sa salude,
mi narat: faghe a bonu in zoventude,
si sanu e forte cheres imbetzare.
Mama non cheret chi passe sa dieche vagabundu, con sos bituleris,
o ibba�tu, per-i sos tzilleris,ca noghet a sa buscia e a mie.
Mama non cheret mancu chi saludesas femmineddas de pagu cap�a,mi narat: menzus
sena cumpanzia,
che una muzere chi no at virtude.
Mama non cheret su inare meua che gastare cun feminas malas,
ca si nd�intendet in totus sas alas,
de zente morta �e cussu male feu.
Issa cheriat, cun d�una galanazovana �e idda a mi coiuare,
ca non suportat de m�ider umpare,
cun d�una vissiosa e pagu sana.
Mama non cheret, a s�iscapav�achi m�abbandone cun zente metzana,
mi narat: menzus a passare gana,
che in galera pro una balent�a.
Tonino Cau
Mum
doesn�t want
Mum doesn�t want me to get drunk, because it damages my health. She advice me
to behave well when I�m young. If I want to grow old and healthy. Mum doesn�t
want me spend my days like a vagabond, or dispersed in pubs, it�s bad for your
health and pocket. Mum doesn�t even want me to greet little women of little
importance, she says it�s better to be alone than with someone lacking virtue.
Mum doesn�t want me to spend money on whores, because she can�t bear the
thought of seeing me with someone unhealthy and full of vices. Mum doesn�t
want me to take to roaming with middle-class and she says to me: hunger is
better than going to prison for a hot-headed action.
A SOS PIZZINNOS
A
song written in tandem by Peppeloisu Piras and Ivo Marras, on child hood and
it�s innocent world, on the wealth which children represent. Rhythm: first to sa
seria and then to passu
torrau.
Bella sa gioventude totu frore,paret
caddu currinde sena briglia,
in sa mente si sognat sa famiglia
aspirende profumos de amore,
cun sa cumpagna sua, a meraviglia,
bella richesa de altu valore,
dinare non bi nd'at de la pagare
ca bona mama devet diventare.
Est che ogni mama chi at su cuntentucando in su sinu at unu pipiu,
felice de l'aer sanu e biu,
li dat afetu in dogni momentu,
in piantu li faghet su lamentu,
paret che rusignolu in su riu,
pianghinde, in su coro li dat pena,
tanto lu ninnat cun sa cantilena.
Cussu est donu de s'umana naturaacumpagnadu dae su criau,
dae minoreddu mannu est diventau,
andende a iscola pro una cultura,
finalmente chi s'est laureau
a su malaidu devet dare cura,
degnu trabagliu, de imbidiare,
e a mama e a babbu no at a abbandonare.
Peppeloisu Piras
Sunt sos pizzinnos opera istupenda,de s'omine su menzus tribagliare,
babbos e mamas prontos a pagare
pro su riscatu d'una tale prenda,
e s'insoro bellesa e siendanon b'at oju bastante a las mirare,
nemancu sa barbarie pius tremenda
cuss'innocenzia podent cancellare.
Si solu essent ischidu chi in su munduesistini ricone e poberitu,
e su primu cumandat su segundu,
certu aian chircadu ateru litu,
menzus e menzus meda, pius giucundu
de custu logu nostru tantu aflitu.
Ivo Marras
To
the children
Youth is beautiful, all roses, it seems like a horse with no brakes, dreams of a
family and inhales lovers scents with her wonderful friend, it�s a wealth of
high value, and money can�t buy it if she becomes a good mother. Like every
mother she is happy to have a child in her womb, happy to have it alive and
healthy she gives it affection every moment, if it cries she makes a noise like
a nightingale in a river, and when it cries she has pain in her heart a she
sings it a lullaby. This is a gift of nature and of creation, it has grown up
and goes to school to be educated, and finally when it graduates it will cure
the ill with it�s worthy and enviable job. But it will never abandon it�s
mum and dad. Babies are splendid works, mans best fruit, the parents are
prepared to pay the ransom for such a pearl, there are no eyes to ascertain a
child�s beauty and value, and not even the most tremendous barbarity can
obliterate their innocence. If only they knew that rich and poor exists in the
world, and the first rule the later, of course they could choose to be born in
another place, much better than our so distressed.
UNU CONSIZU
Advice
to reckless youths who don�t see the dangers of racing in their cars. Rhythm:
to sa seria.
A
tie, giovanu de sa prima essida, si mi permitis un'avvertimentu:
cando chi ses in su postu 'e guida,
mesu muscadu, e t'intendes cuntentu
Ma si bi pensas bene, custa vidanon che l'imbolas in d'unu momentu,
cando t'agatas cun sa mente ischida
t' intendes forte ca dannu no has tentu.
Mira ca custa vida tantu bellamedas giovanos macos at firmadu,
o reduidos in sedia a rotellas,
de sas machinas medas nd'an bogadu
fatos a peta subra una barella,
ma tue a totu custu no as pensadu.
Nicola Loi
Advice
You are still a novice, youngster and, if you allow me to give you some advice,
I�m warning you: for when your driving your car, a bit typsy and happy. But if
you think about it, you don�t throw your life away in an instance, when you
are wide awake. You feel strong because you haven�t been injured. Watch out,
this very beautiful life has stopped many reckless youths and confined them to a
whellchair, many have been pulled out of the cars in pieces, on a stretcher,
haven�t you thought of this.
MUTOS
We
usually end our evening with some mottetti (short choruses).
Ite
bellu cantare,chi faghet su tenore,
cun boghe armoniosa.
A mannos e minores,
bajanos cun isposas
bos cherzo saludare.
Sardigna isolana,tue ses un amore
bista de sa cost�ra.In terra istraniera
trabagliat cun su�resa zente tua lontana.
Si bi ando a Caprerabisito a s'eroe
chi inie est reposende.
Sa zoventude 'e oe
la suni destruende
ca de sa droga est s'era.
In chelu 'e Palestinaest falada un'istella,
mai ida una uguale.
Unu bonu Nadale,
ca est sa die pius bella
a ogn'omine e fem�na.
In sa Pala 'e su niebi at una contonera,
villeta provinciale.
Bellesa universale,
nara si ses fiera
de amare a mie.
A sa cresia magioreeris so andadu,
mi so postu a pregare.
Devo ringraziare
a custu comitadu
pro s'invitu a su tenore.
Orisetzo e Pranu,notos in bidda mia,
sos montes de altura.
Fin'a sa sepoltura
narrer giai ti cher�ade mi dare sa manu.
In sa zona 'e Pul�uamus a monumentu
sas domos de agianas.
Rosa mia galana,
unidos in sacramentu,
coro tuo e meu.
Su campu 'e Nocurrelilu cherzo laor�resi permitit s'annada.
Finida est sa cantada,
bos cheret saludare
su Coro 'e Neoneli.
Peppeloisu Piras
Mottetti
How
beautifully the tenor sings with his harmonious voice. I wish to greet the young
and their brides the young and the old. Island of Sardinia, seen from the coast
you are a beauty your people work hard, in lands far away. If I go to Caprera I
will visit Garibaldi who lies there. The young of today are destroying it
because it�s the drug era. A star has risen in the Palestine sky, such a star
has never been seen. I want to wish every man and woman a happy Christmas, since
it is the most beautiful day of all.
In
�Pala �e su nie� (Neoneli rural place name) there is a provincial signal
man�s house. Universal beauty, tell me if you�re proud to love me. Yesterday
I went to pray in the main church. I must thank the committee for having invited
the choir. Orisetzo and Pranu (Neoneli highest mountains), are the highest
mountains known in Neoneli. I want to ask you to shake my hand until I die. In
the Pul�u area (Neoneli rural place name) we have the domus de janas monument.
My beautiful rose, unite our hearts in oath. The Noccurreli field (Neoneli rural
place name), if it allows me crops, I want to sew it. The song has ended and
Neoneli Choir want to say good bye, good wishes to you.
