Katina Ranieri — Aveva un bavero song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Aveva un bavero" by Katina Ranieri.

Lyrics

Nella sera fredda e scura
Presso il fuoco del camino
Quante storie quante fiabe
Raccontava il mio nonnino;
La più bella che ricordo
È la storia di un amore
Di un amore appassionato
Che felice non finì
Ed il cuore di un poeta
A tal punto intenerì
Che la storia di quei tempi
Mise in musica così:
Aveva un bavero color zafferano
E la marsina color ciclamino
Veniva a piedi da Lodi a Milano
Per incontrare la bella Gigogin
Passeggiando per la via
Le cantava mio dolce amor
Gigogin speranza mia
Coi tuoi baci mi rubi il cuor
Ma con altri del paese
In Piemonte fu mandato
E per essere vicino
Col suo cuore innamorato
Sopra l’acqua di una roggia
Che passava per Milano
Perché lei lo raccogliesse
Ogni dì posava un fior
Lei con ansia lo aspettava
Sospirando attorno amor
E bagnandolo di pianto
Lo stringeva forte al cuor
Lui saputo che il suo ritorno
Finalmente era vicino
Sopra l’acqua un fior d’arancio
Deponeva un bel mattino;
Lei, vedendo e indovinando
La ragione di quel fiore
Per raccoglierlo si spinse
Tanto tanto che cascò;
Sopra l’acqua, con quel fiore
Verso il mare se ne andò …
E anche lui, per il dolore
Dal Piemonte non tornò…
Lei lo attese fra le stelle
Su nel cielo stringendo un fior
E in un sogno di poesia
Si trovarono uniti ancor

Lyrics translation

In the cold and dark evening
By the fire of the fireplace
How many stories how many fairy tales
Told my grandfather;
The most beautiful I remember
It's the story of a love
Of a passionate love
How happy it didn't end
And the heart of a poet
So tender
That the history of those times
Set to music like this:
He had a saffron lapel.
And the cyclamen-colored marsina
He was walking from Lodi to Milan
To meet the beautiful Gigogin
Walking down the street
My Sweet Love sang to her
Gigogin hope my
With your kisses you steal my heart
But with others of the country
In Piedmont he was sent
And to be close
With her heart in love
Over the water of a brood
Passing through Milan
For her to pick it up
Every day laid a flower
She eagerly awaited him
Sighing around love
And wetting him with tears
He held his heart tight
He knew that his return
Finally it was close
Over the water an orange blossom
Lay a fine morning;
She, seeing and guessing
The reason for that flower
To collect it he pushed
So much so that it fell;
Over the water, with that flower
He went to the sea …
And he, too, for the pain
From Piedmont he did not return…
She waited for him among the stars
Up in the sky clutching a flower
And in a dream of poetry
They found themselves united again