Chiamate Napoli 081 [English translation]

1)

Hello -- can you hear me?

It's Salvatore

I had to call

I've been thinking

I want to know about the children

Are the children OK?

I'm tormented

and having bad thoughts

2)

How it is bitter to be far away

when you have a family.

When Napoli only appears on a post card.

I am miserable every hour of the day

and the only way I feel better

is when I amj moved by a song.

3)

Tell me -- is Gennarino near you?

Assuntelella,

how is she? - she's not sleeping?

Give them both a big hug

tell them that their papa' loves them very much.

4)

Repeat #2

5)

I can't stand being away freom you any longer

Tomorrow, I'll take the train

and return to Napoli

and I'll stay with you forever

and not roam any more.

Napoli is calling her son

like a mother

extending her arms Napolitano come back - come back

I don't want to die -- I cannot die.

• Artist:Mario Merola