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Canzoni contro la guerra - La Brigata Lolli

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con <strong>la</strong> schiuma al<strong>la</strong> bocca<br />

cacciatori di agnelli<br />

a inseguire <strong>la</strong> gente come selvaggina<br />

finché il sangue selvatico<br />

non gli ha spento <strong>la</strong> voglia<br />

e dopo il ferro in go<strong>la</strong> i ferri del<strong>la</strong> prigione<br />

e nelle ferite il seme velenoso del<strong>la</strong> deportazione<br />

perché di nostro dal<strong>la</strong> pianura al molo<br />

non possa più crescere albero né spiga né figlio<br />

ciao bambino mio l'eredità<br />

è nascosta<br />

in questa città<br />

che brucia che brucia<br />

nel<strong>la</strong> sera che scende<br />

e in questa grande luce di fuoco<br />

per <strong>la</strong> tua picco<strong>la</strong> morte.<br />

*<br />

SIDON<br />

Versione inglese di Riccardo Venturi<br />

My baby, oh my baby, my baby,<br />

My own baby<br />

His fleshy ruby lips<br />

in the honey sun<br />

Sweet benign tumour<br />

of your mom<br />

Squeezed in this wet,<br />

sultry, sultry summer<br />

And now, a clot of blood, ears<br />

and milk teeth<br />

And the eyes of soldiers, like mad dogs,<br />

who hunted the <strong>la</strong>mbs<br />

with foam at the mouth<br />

and chased people like game<br />

until they quenched<br />

their wild bloodthirst<br />

And after the bars into the throat, the bars of jail,<br />

And in the wounds, the poisonous seed of deportation<br />

So that nothing of us, trees, spikes or children,<br />

May grow any more from the p<strong>la</strong>in to the seashore.<br />

Goodbye, my baby, our heritage<br />

is hidden<br />

in this city that<br />

is burning, is burning<br />

in the evening drawing near<br />

and in this great fire light<br />

for your little death.

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