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To: Grateful2God
Whenever they show the wedding scene in “The Godfather” and Mama and that little old man sing, I can’t help it, I sing and clap to the music, and laugh! Best part of the whole movie!

I have to agree. The old guy singing it, the hand gestures—priceless! And the song has innuendo, but not so bad that the little kids would understand. I can read Italian but those lyrics are written in Neapolitan dialect, which I can't make out, except for the part where he switches from English to Neapolitan to say the racy part:

“You better marry a fireman he’ll come and go,
Go and come sempr’s la pompa a mano tiene...
"Go and come, he's always got the hose in his hand" — LOL!
179 posted on 05/17/2015 5:43:21 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The "legacy of slavery" is not an excuse for inexcusable behavior. --Thomas Sowell)
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To: Albion Wilde
Lol, when we we kids, we didn't get the double-entendres, or they'd sing them in Italian- way back in the days kids were invited to weddings! I remember the butcher boy:

Oh, Ma-ma, oh get that man for me!
Oh, Ma-ma, how happy I would be;
Tra, la, la, and cheery-beery be
If I ever marry it's the butcher boy for me!

I wonder what he had in his hand?! Lol...

Remember, Eh, Cumpari? That one was really hard to follow! 🎶🎹🎷🎸🎺🎻🎤 bee dee-dee-dee, dee-dee-dee!😀

180 posted on 05/18/2015 5:21:05 AM PDT by Grateful2God (Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
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