Ennio Rega — Giovannino song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Giovannino" by Ennio Rega.

Lyrics

Mi portava in sella fiero su una moto corvo sparviero
ma lui aveva unghie di chi il sandalo lo porta poco
spasimava per una polacca nuda come un ombrello
e a lui sembrava un abasciur
Non si viveva di fantasia nel villaggio di Giovannino
così di buona compagnia baffo biondo
Il muratore ridotto a tirare una carretta
unta di grasso e di frizioni volani
salvava cambi e freni e dischi cercava ferro vecchio al mazzo
che ammucchiava su uno spiazzo
Di calce spenta e rena
la sua vita non ne valeva la pena
e fu così che all’alba
nel cielo vide un gancio la corda passò
come il filo nell’ago cadde solo un po' d’acchitto
La sera nel bar si accesero altre sigarette
altre birre si giocarono a tressette
Bevi tu bevo io tra noccioli di mandorle
Si diceva può succedere a chiunque
d’innamorarsi di una puttana
Baffo biondo l’oasi lei il deserto di sale
per esprimere il vuoto avevano bisogno
dello stesso materiale si diceva
Dell’amore nella feccia dietro al faro sulla breccia
sullo spiazzo dietro i ponti dei due cuori inverecondi
di quella fine all’alba non tornavano i conti
non era un uomo tragico Giovannino dei bassifondi
Anche se era migliore del suo dio
e noi non sappiamo se fu un delitto
e non vogliamo giudicare
Cosa sia pio e cosa empio
cosa sia equo e cosa iniquo
del buono del giusto del più o meno perfetto
dio si occupi del reietto
Dell’intera umanità e non del prediletto
Colonne di fumo salivano
all’alba come foreste di torri
roghi e falò lontani lucignoli di lampada
ad olio bella la vita un vizio
l’alba abbacinava come un supplizio
Si diceva può succedere

Lyrics translation

He was riding me proudly on a raven Sparrow motorcycle
but he had nails of whom the sandal wears him little
spasimava for a pole naked as an umbrella
and he looked like an abasciur
There was no fantasy in the village of Giovannino
so good company mustache blonde
The bricklayer reduced to pulling a cart
grease and clutches flywheels
he saved gears and brakes and discs he looked for old iron on the deck
piled up on a clearing
Of slaked lime and rena
his life wasn't worth it
and so it was at dawn
in the sky he saw a hook the rope passed
as the thread in the needle fell only a little bit
In the evening, more cigarettes were lit in the bar
other beers played with tressette
Drink you drink I among almond kernels
It was said it can happen to anyone
falling in love with a whore
Moustache blonde Oasis her salt desert
to express the emptiness they needed
of the same material was said
Of love in the scum behind the lighthouse on the breach
on the clearing behind the bridges of the two inverecond hearts
of that end at Dawn did not return the accounts
he was not a tragic man Giovannino of the slums
Though he was better than his God
and we don't know if it was a crime
and we do not want to judge
What is godly and what is ungodly
what is fair and what is unjust
of the good of the right of the more or less perfect
God take care of the outcast
Of all mankind and not of the beloved
Columns of smoke rose
at dawn like forests of towers
bonfires and bonfires far away lamp lights
oil beautiful life a vice
the dawn abacinated like a torment
It was said can happen