La Wanda

Riccardo Marasco

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Il porcellino

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Italian (Central dialects)

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La Wanda

Te la 'ntoppai con una minnigonna

Vertiginosa, gambe da cenzura

Capelli biondi, occhi di Madonna

Un panorama da villeggiatura

Che l'era tutta un'avventura

Io sono un fusto, ne ho conquistate tante

D'ogni sapore, coscia magra o forte

Ma qui' mattino e gl'ero un po' esitante

Un fo per di': c'avéo le mani morte

Ad abbordarla sentivo un po' timore

Le mi venivano frasi troppo accese

E in gola mi batteva forte i' core

Temevo di finire a qui' paese

"Gummoninghe" alla fine dissi piano

E lei la mi squadrò dall'alto in basso

"Do you speak inglisce?" le urlai di lontano

Perché l'avéa di già affettato i' passo

"Bonjour", gridai, "vous parlez-vous français?"

Si voltò appena, mi scivolò un'occhiata

Io mi rimescolai da capo a piè

Tremavo come un vecchio canapè

Io sono un fusto, ne ho conquistate tante

Conosco il kamasutra e ho letto Sade

Basta un'occhiata, languida e filtrante

Le cadon giù, trafitte dalle spade

"Sprechen Sie Doicce?", provai con i' tedesco

Ma lei più sorda, ancora la un intese

L'era foresta, pareva un fior di pesco

Venuto da chissà quale Paese

Che minnigonna, che fianchi, che ancheggiare

Che viso, che capelli, che pupilla

Tutti pe' strada la facéa saltare

Ne' pantaloni paréa d'ave' 'n anguilla

Te la raggiunsi laggiù sui' Ponte Vecchio

E piano piano le dissi in un orrecchio:

"Ik libe disce, je t'eme, ai lov yu"

Eh, la va o la spacca, e un resistevo più

Io sono un fusto e lei la mi sorrise

La bella bocca splendeva contro i' Sole

Con quelle labbra - rosse - la m'uccise

E la 'nvestii co' un fiume di parole

"Ma dove l'è alloggiata, dica il nome

Vengo a trovarla stasera, già allenato

Le canterò d'amore una canzone

Io sono un latin lover raffinato"

"Simpaticone, mi chiaman tutti Wanda

Ma il vero nome mio gl'è Piero Tito

Mi vengono a cercare dall'Olanda

Soddisfo tutti, e sono un travestito"

E via s'incamminò, stendendo l'anca

Mentre io rimuginavo tutto cionco:

"S'oggi le Wande e' son tutte così

È meglio limitassi a fa' pippì."

Wanda

When I bumped into her, she was wearing a miniskirt

A stratospheric one, with outrageus legs

Blonde hair, eyes like the Virgin Mary

The view of a holiday resort

Promising adventures

I'm a macho, I've seduced many women

Of every flavour, skinny and curvy

But that morning I was a bit hesitant

My hands were trembling, if you know what I mean 1

I wanted to approach her, but I was worried

Everything I could came up with was too obscene

And I could feel my heart beating in my throat

I was worried she could buzz me off

"Goommonninghay" 2 I softly said at last

And she sized me up

"Do you speak Englishay?" I shouted at her

Because she had already hastened

"Bonjour", I shouted, "vous parlez-vous français?"

She slightly turned around, and I could take a better look at her

I could feel my blood boil, head to bottom

I was trembling like an old camp bed

I'm a macho, I've seduced many women

I know the kamasutra and I've read Sade

It only takes a glance, promising and keen

And the ladies fall down, as striken down by a sword

"Sprechen Sie Doytschay?", I tried with German

But she didn't understand, as if she was deaf

She was a foreigner, she looked like a peach flower

Came from who knows where

That miniskirt, those hips, she was shaking it

That face, that hair, those eyes

Walking down the street, everybody jumped [to turn around and see]

I felt like I had an eel in my pants

I reached her over there, on the Ponte Vecchio 3

And softly whispered to her ears:

"Ik leebe dischay, je t'aymeh, I lov yoo"

It's sink or swim, I couldn't resist any longer

I'm a macho and she smiled at me

Her beautiful mouth gleamed in the sunshine

With those lips - so red! - she killed me

And I flooded her with a river of words

"Please, where is your hotel, tell me

I'll come to visit this evening, already on fire

I'll sing a love song to you

I am a refined latin lover"

"You funny guy, everybody call me Wanda

But my actual name is Peter Titus

They come for me all the way from Holland

I satisfy everybody, and I'm a transvestite"

And there she went, wiggling her hips

And I was left sad, mulling over

"If today all the Wandas are like this

It's better if I use it just for peeing."

1. lit. "I had dead hands, if you know what I mean". "Dead hand" ("mano morta") is used to refer to a sexual abuse, i.e. when somebody is in a crowded place and takes advantage of it touching a woman (especially on the butt). What the singer is saying here is that he was nervous and his hands were cold, as a dead man's.
2. the singer here pronounces some words in English, French and German, with the typical Florentine accent.
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Vecchio