LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,109)
  • Text Authors (19,482)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Carlo Alberto Salustri (1871 - 1950), as Trilussa

Er coccodrillo
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Ner mejo che un signore e 'na signora,
Marito e moje, staveno sdrajati
Su la riva der mare, scappò fora
Un Coccodrillo co' la bocca aperta
E l'occhi spaventati.
La moje, ch'era sverta,
S'aggiustò li riccetti e scappò via:
Mentre ch' er Coccodrillo, inviperito,
Se masticava er povero marito
Come magnasse un pollo all'osteria.
Siccome er Coccodrillo, pe' natura,
Magna l'omo eppoi piagne,
Puro quello se mésse a piagne' come 'na cratura,
Ogni cinque minuti
Ciaripensava come li cornuti
E risbottava un antro piantarello.
Tanto ch' er giorno appresso, a l'istess'ora,
Ner rivede' la povera signora
Riprincipiò le lagrime e li lagni;
Sperava forse che s'intenerisse:
Ma inveci, sì! la vedova je disse:
Dio mio, quanto sei scemo! Ancora piagni?

Text Authorship:

  • by Carlo Alberto Salustri (1871 - 1950), as Trilussa [author's text not yet checked 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 Alfredo Casella (1883 - 1947), "Er coccodrillo", op. 38 no. 1, published 1923, from Quattro favole romanesche di Trilussa, no. 1. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 22
Word count: 120

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris