The last post made me too depressed, so here's an entirely more lighthearted one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvAM1rk8SI&feature=relatedHere is an approximate translation:
Vincenzella was weaving her dowry
Night and day at the loom
Making the spool fly:
Tu-tu-tu, Tu-tu-tu, Tu-tu-tu
As she toiled, the good lady,
She sang a song of love
in a voice that went straight to the heart.
And it went something like this:
Turì-turì-turò; Turì-turì-turò
No good trying to say no
No good trying to resist,
When a woman wants something,
with her eyes she makes you do it.
Finally the lady got married
To a dumb rich man in the village,
after a year, they made him baron
Tu-tu-tu, Tu-tu-tu, Tu-tu-tu
This dumb baron had to go to the country,
And left his wife to weave.
When he came home that evening
he found her singing like this:
Turì-turì-turò; Turì-turì-turò
No good trying to say no
No good trying to resist,
When a woman wants something,
with her eyes she makes you do it.
Suspicious, one night he returned home
an hour earlier, just to be safe.
But from behind the shutter he heard:
Tu-tu-tu, Tu-tu-tu, Tu-tu-tu
He took a matchbox, lit a match
and lit a candle.
He saw Vincenzella, his wife, with the fabric,
and he saw something else.
And she was singing like this:
Turì-turì-turò; Turì-turì-turò
No good trying to say no
No good trying to resist,
When a woman wants something,
with her eyes she makes you do it.
