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by Giovanni Meli (1740 - 1815)

Lu labbru
Language: Italian - Sicilian 
Dimmi, dimmi, apuzza nica,
unni vai cussì matinu?
Nun c'è cima, chi arrussica,
di lu munti a nui vicinu;
 
trema ancora, ancora luci
la ruggiada 'ntra li prati;
dun'accura nun ti arruci
l'ali d'oru delicati.
 
Li ciuriddi, durmigghiusi
'ntra li virdi soi buttuni,
stannu ancora stritti e chiusi
cu li testi a pinnuluni.
 
Ma l'aluzza s'affatica!
Ma tu voli e fai caminu.
Dimmi, dimmi, apuzza nica,
unni vai cussì matinu?
 
Cerchi meli? e s'iddu è chissu,
chiudi l'ali e 'un ti straccari;
ti lu 'nzignu un locu fissu,
unni ài sempri chi sucari:
 
lu canusci lu miu amuri,
Nici mia di l'occhi beddi?
'Ntra ddi labbri c'è un sapuri
na ducizza chi mai speddi;
 
'ntra lu labbru culuritu
di lu caru amatu beni
c'è lu meli chiù squisitu:
suca, sucalu, ca veni.

Text Authorship:

  • by Giovanni Meli (1740 - 1815), "Lu labbru" [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 Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Lu labbru", 1989/90, first performed 1990 [ SATB quartet and SATB chorus a cappella ], from Vier Chorstücke, no. 2, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) , "Ein sicilianisches Liedchen", subtitle: "(Aus den Poesie Siciliane dell' Abbate Giovanni Meli, T. I., p. 159.) ", appears in Stimmen der Völker in Liedern, in 2. Das zweite Buch. Lieder aus dem Süd ; composed by Ferdinand von Hiller, Bernhard Ernst Scholz.
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Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2012-04-30
Line count: 28
Word count: 132

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