Bella ciao

Bella ciao

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"Bella ciao" is an Italian partisan song of World War II.

History

The song Bella Ciao was sung by the left anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy comprised of anarchists, communists, socialists and other anti-fascist partisans. The author of the lyrics is unknown, and the music seems to come from an earlier folk song sung by riceweeders in the Po Valley. Another interpretation has been given following the discovery in 2006 by Fausto Giovannardi of the CD "Klezmer - Yiddish swing music" including the melody "Koilen" played in 1919 by Mishka Ziganoff. [cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/2008/04/sezioni/spettacoli_e_cultura/ballata-bella/ballata-bella/ballata-bella.html|title=Da ballata yiddish a inno partigiano il lungo viaggio di Bella ciao]

Lyrics

Note: rhymes could not be rendered in English, and several short Italian words ("bella", "ciao") translate into long English words ("beautiful", "goodbye"), so that the result is rather "heavier" than the original version.Also, there are several verses which differ in the Italian version, i.e. different ways to sing those verses. Those are written in brackets.

Alternate translation

Alternate, less literal and more "singable" translation - which also makes explicit some aspects that are left implicit in the Italian text:

:SWEETHEART GOODBYE

:One morning when I awakened:Sweetheart goodbye, oh goodbye, oh goodbye-bye-bye!:One morning when I awakened:I found invaders all around

:Oh partisan, come take me with you:Sweetheart goodbye, oh goodbye, oh goodbye-bye-bye!:Oh partisan, come take me with you:Because I feel ready to die

:If I die fighting as a partisan:Sweetheart goodbye, oh goodbye, oh goodbye-bye-bye!:If I die fighting as a partisan:You must come and bury me

:Bury me there, up in the mountains :Sweetheart goodbye, oh goodbye, oh goodbye-bye-bye!:Bury me there, up in the mountains :Shade my grave with a lovely flower

:So all the people who pass that way:Sweetheart goodbye, oh goodbye, oh goodbye-bye-bye!:So all the people who pass that way:Will say "Oh see that lovely flower! - "

:"Ah that's the flower of the partisan fighter - ":Sweetheart goodbye, oh goodbye, oh goodbye-bye-bye!:"Ah that's the flower of the partisan fighter :who died for freedom's sake!"

International versions

The song has been recorded by various artists in many different languages including Italian, Russian, Bosnian, Kurdish, Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, English, Spanish, Finnish, Kabyle, German, Turkish, Japanese, Tagalog, Breton and Chinese.

The song is sung in a slightly different manner by Norwegian socialists. This Norwegian version describes the oppression of workers on the rice fields, and speaks of the freedom to come.

Bella Ciao is the end theme song for the Yugoslav WWII movie "Most" ("The Bridge", "The Savage Bridge").

A rewritten version of the song can be heard on Chumbawamba's acoustic album "A Singsong and a Scrap".

Another version of the song was recorded by the punk rock band Dog Faced Hermans [http://www.pyduc.com/dfh/] on the album "Every Day Time Bomb."

Former Yugoslav punk rock bands KUD Idijoti and later Goblini recorded their versions of the track.

The German hip-hop group Chaoze One has recorded an electronic version of the song with opera singing on their album "Neue Kreise."

ee also

* "Fischia il vento" - the other song associated with the Italian partisans
* The Red Army Choir - one of the performers of this song

References

External links

* [http://www.anpi.it/canzoniere/bellaciao.htm A slightly different Italian version] from the website of the Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia
* [http://www.anpi.rimini.it/audio.php www.anpi.rimini.it] Bella Ciao and other partisans songs from the website of the Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia section of Rimini


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