Il lunedì voi mi parete bella,
E martedì che mi parete un fiore;
E mercodì che siete un fior novello,
Il giovedì un bel mazzo di viole;
E venerdì che siete la più bella,
Il sabato, che siete un fior fiorito:
E poi vien la domenica mattina,
[Par]1 che siete una rosa in su la spina.
[Si torna al lunedì dell’ altra volta:
Siete una rosa in sulla spina colta.]2

B. Fairchild sets lines 1-8

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Confirmed with Canti Poplari Toscani, raccolti e annotati da Giuseppe Tigri, Firenze: Barbèra, Bianchi, e Comp., 1856, page 184.

¹ Fairchild: "Pare"
² omitted by Fairchild

Text Authorship:

• from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , as Folk songs, no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Il lunedì", lines 1-8 [voice and piano], confirmed with a 1989 edition, Recital Publications, Huntsville, TX [ sung text checked 1 time]

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• ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "On Monday", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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