Would you like those two sweet eyes (Buvoli, set by (Giuseppe Verdi)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by E. Buvoli

Translation © by Mario Giuseppe Genesi

Voleu che que' dò oceti

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Voleu che que' dò oceti
I sbrisega d'amore?
Doneghe 'sti fioreti
E gavarì'l sò cor!
Voleu che un bel basetto
Ve daga 'il vostro ben?
Doneghe 'sto fioreto
Metighelo nel sen.
In mezo de 'sti fiori
Natura mostra el viso
Le grazie e'l Paradiso
Nel mio giardin gh'è s'è!

Note: the text is in Veneto-region dialect.

Authorship

by E. Buvoli [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901), "Voleu che que' dò oceti" [high voice and piano] [
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ITA Italian (Italiano) (Mario Giuseppe Genesi) , title unknown, copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Mario Giuseppe Genesi) , title 1: "Would you like those two sweet eyes", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Mario Giuseppe Genesi

This text was added to the website: 2012-12-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 49

Would you like those two sweet eyes

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Would you like those two sweet eyes
to melt with love for you?
Bring them this little bunch of flowers 
and you'll open her heart!
Do you want your lover 
to give you a big kiss?
Insert the flowers 
into her bosom!" --
-- "Through these two flowers 
Nature shows her face and her graces;
Within my garden 
Paradise now flourishes!"

Translator's note: a dialogue between a florist and a passer-by.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by E. Buvoli

This text was added to the website: 2012-12-20
Line count: 12
Word count: 59