🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: L'italiano (L Asciatemi Cantare) - Toto Cutugno

 Lasciatemi cantare
 con la  in mano
 lasciatemi cantare
 una canzone  piano
 lasciatemi cantare
 perché  sono fiero
 sono l’italiano
 l’italiano vero
 
 Buongiorno  gli spaghetti al dente
 e  partigiano come Presidente
 con l’autoradio sempre nella mano 
 un canarino sopra  finestra
 Buongiorno Italia con  suoi artisti
 con  America sui manifesti
 con le canzoni,  amore,
 con il 
 con più donne sempre meno 
 Buongiorno Italia
 buongiorno Maria
 con  occhi pieni di malinconia
 buongiorno Dio
 lo sai  ci sono anch’io
 
 Lasciatemi cantare
  la chitarra in mano
 lasciatemi cantare
 una canzone  piano
 Lasciatemi cantare
  ne sono fiero
 sono l’italiano
 l’italiano vero
 
 Buongiorno Italia che non si 
 con la  da barba da menta
 con un vestito gessato sul 
 e la  la domenica in TV
 Buongiorno Italia col  ristretto
  calze nuove nel primo cassetto
 con la  in tintoria
 e una  giù di carrozzeria
 Buongiorno Italia
 buongiorno Maria
  gli occhi pieni di malinconia
 buongiorno Dio
 lo sai che  sono anch’io
 
 Lasciatemi cantare
 con la chitarra in 
 lasciatemi cantare
 una canzone piano 
 Lasciatemi cantare
  ne sono fiero
 sono l’italiano
 l’italiano vero.
 
 Lasciatemi cantare
  la chitarra in mano
 lasciatemi cantare
 una  piano piano
 Lasciatemi cantare
 perché  sono fiero
 sono l’italiano
 l’italiano vero.
 
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 English translation:
 
 Let me 
  the guitar in my hands
 Let  sing
 I’m an 
 
 Good morning Italy, the spaghetti al  [1]
 And  partisan for president [2]
 With  car radio always in the right hand [3]
 And  canary over the window
 
 Good morning Italy with your  [4]
 Too much America on the  [5]
  songs, with love, with heart
 With more women less and less  [6]
 
 Good morning Italy, good morning Maria 
  eyes full of melancholy
 Good morning my 
 You know that I’m here  [8]
 
 Let me sing  the guitar in my hand
 Let me sing a  softly softly
 Let me sing  I’m proud of that
 I’m  Italian, a real Italian
 
 Good  Italy that is not afraid at all
 With  mint shaving foam
 With a gessato dress  blue [9]
 And the moviola  Sunday on the TV [10]
 
 Good morning  with espresso coffee
  socks in the first drawer
 With the flag in  laundry
  a Seicento with an old bodywork [11]
 
 Good  Italy, good morning Maria
 With sweet eyes of 
  morning my God
 You know  I’m here too
 
 Let me sing with  guitar in my hand
 Let  sing a song softly softly
 Let me sing because  proud of that
  an Italian, a real Italian
 
 Pa ra ra ra ra ra  Pa ra ra ra ra ra ra
 Pa ra ra ra ra ra ra  ra ra ra ra ra ra
 Pa ra pa ra ra pa ra pa Pa  pa ra ra pa ra pa
 Pa ra pa, pa ra pa Pa  pa, pa ra pa [12]
 
 Let me sing with the guitar  my hand
 Let me  a song softly softly
 Let me sing because  proud of that
 I’m an Italian, a real 
 
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 [1] Spaghetti al dente means Spaghetti not very cooked; in Italy it is  long standing issue the problem of how long to cook spaghetti. In the south it is preferred to boil them not very much, while in the north they are boiled for a lot of time (spaghetti scotti).
 [2] In the 80’s the president of the Italian Republic was Sandro Pertini; he was a partisan against the  during the Second World War.
 [3] In  nouveau riche Italy of the 80’s the car radio was a status symbol.
 [4] It is  known that Italy is the country of saints, poets, and sailormans…
 [5] The first of a series of verses full of political criticism: after  Second World War the Italian culture was invaded by the American myth, il mito Americano.
 [6] There are two different meanings of this verse. The first one is related to a social analysis: in the modern Italy the number of nuns decreased due to secularization of the society. The second one is moral: women of our times forgot the holy principles of the ancient society; note that in Italy is usual to call suora, nun, a girl that doesn’t go with a man if he doesn’t have serious  (marriage).
 [7] Maria is la Madonna,  mother of Christ.
 [8] This is the key of the interpretation of the text. The Author, with  full of melancholy for seeing Italy in so bad conditions, is frightened of God having forgot him.
 [9] Gessato is an  suit.
 [10]  is the replay of the relevant moments of the football matches of the day, on Sunday evening. Football matches were played on Sunday but it was not possible to see them live on television, so Moviola was very popular.
 [11] Seicento (600) was a very popular small car produced by FIAT Auto, the symbol of Italian industry (now in deep crisis). The fact the auto has an old bodywork is another symbol of  moral decandence of Italy in the 80’s.
 [12] Full of desperation, Toto didn’t find  to express his thoughts.