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Narrative songs

Lady Lombard, The Sleeping Drink, and The False Pilgrim.
These are three of the most significant dance or you sing epic-lyric or romances which were widely distributed along the Istrian coast, as well as in much of northern Italy.
Lombard Woman, one of the most famous Italian folk narrative songs, has found wide diffusion in Dignano Gallesano, Buie and Cittanova. The Istrian version, however, is much more sparse than the versions of the same name that circulate in other Italian regions because the attention was paid more to the vocal scansion of the word, almost like a storyteller who is more careful to tell the story well rather than developing the vocal potential of the melody. The absence of the child who warns his father of the presence of the poison is curious in the text of the Istrian version.
Characteristic of these ballads popular is the mixed linguistic form (Italian + dialect) on a cadenced but substantially free rhythm.

Lombard Woman

Love my Lombard lady
love me love me.

How do you want me to love you?
if I already have a husband if I already have a husband.

That rascal of a husband of yours
let him die let him die.

How do you want me to kill him?
if I don't know if I don't know.

Go to your good father's garden
there is a snake there there is a snake.

Cut off that snake's head
methylate it in the wine methylate it in the wine.

When your husband comes home
with a big self with a big self.

Give me a drink, Lombard lady
give me a drink give me a drink.

What wine do you want me to give you?
if I don't know if I don't know.

Black Ladies or Lombard Lady
give me some black give me some black.

What does so disturbed mean?
whoever disturbed it whoever disturbed it.

The lightning and thunder of the other night
he will have disturbed him he will have disturbed him.

Drink it yourself, Lombard lady
you drink it, you drink it.

How do you want me to drink?
if I don't have myself if I don't have myself.

With my sword that I carry at my side
you will drink it you will drink it.

The first drop that Lombard drinks
the colors changed the colors changed.

The second drop that Lombard drinks
the head bowed the head bowed.

The third drop that Lombard drinks
he fell to the ground and never got up again.

This is what the Lombard women do
with her husband with her husband.

The sleeping drink

And my mom is so old
He makes me go to the fountain.

And finally arrived at the middle road
and she meets a handsome knight.

And where are you going my beautiful brunette?
so usual but for the city.

I'm going to the fountain
to get water for dinner.

Wait a little my beautiful brunette
that the water will get so dirty.

No I can't I can't wait
that my mommy gave me in a hurry.


The false pilgrim

If you dress, if you hurry
she washes her white hands
she dresses she dresses beautiful Viola
she washes her white hands.

It goes to the bottom in the stable
he's going to get the most beautiful horse.

Aim one, aim the other
he never knew which one to choose.

He took a Turkish horse
that there was never a horse.

Come to your wife's side
my husband where are you going.

I'm going to war
to the war of the beautiful soldiers.

If I don't come back in seven years
my wife, don't wait for me.

And seven years have passed
that the beauty goes to the balcony.

And a ship saw it
a ship of fine soldiers.

And in the meantime these soldiers
there was a poor pilgrim.

Charity charity lady
that I am a poor pilgrim.

I have nothing to give you
just bread and wine.

I don't want bread or wine
I'll sleep with you one night.

To your monster of a pilgrim
this was charity.

I'll have you kicked out
of these walls of this city.

Show off that white hand
that ring that I married you.