On Monday | On Monday you appear beautiful to me

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , as Folk songs

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Il lunedì voi mi parete bella

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

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

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• B. Fairchild

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]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-03-04
Line count: 10
Word count: 72

On Monday

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

On Monday you appear beautiful to me,
And Tuesday you [look like] a flower to me;
And Wednesday you are a fresh flower,
On Thursday a beautiful bunch of violets;
And Friday you are the most lovely,
On Saturday you are a flower in bloom:
And then comes Sunday morning,
It seems you are a rose [with a] thorn.
If one returns to Monday [once more]:
You are a rose [with a] thorn plucked.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , as Folk songs, no title
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This text was added to the website: 2019-03-04
Line count: 10
Word count: 74