Pecché?
Pecché? (pronounced [pəkˈke]; literally "Why?") is a 1913 Neapolitan song composed by Gaetano Enrico Pennino with lyrics by Carlo De Flavis. It was a standard song for Enrico Caruso and Luciano Pavarotti, and is even known in a Soviet version.[1]
The first verse reads:
- Canta l'auciello dint' 'â casa antica
- Addó primma cantave pure tu.
- E sento pur' 'a voce 'e 'n'ata amica
- Ca mme cunziglia 'e nun te penzà cchiù!
(In the old house the bird sings, where you once used to sing, too. And I hear as well another female friend's voice, advising me not to stop thinking about you!)
Then follows the refrain which gives the name to song: "Carmela, if I have left my mother for you, if you have taken my early youth, why don't you come back to me?"
References
[edit]- ^ "Pennino, Gaetano Errico (18??-19??) Why? (Pecche) (Pochemu?) (G. De Flavis, translated by B. Abramovich) instrumental ensemble directed by Anatoly Tsadikovsky. rec. 1976-80 (All-Union Radio) LP: Melodiya 10-15017-18 (1981) (stereo) ...". The Record Collector: A Magazine for Collectors of Recorded Vocal Art. 2004.
