Il gorilla [English translation]

On the square of a city

people looked with admiration

a gorilla brought there

by gypsies in a shed

with little sense of decency

the women of that district

contemplating the animal

I do not say where I will not say how

beware the gorilla!

Suddenly the big cage

where the animal lived

opens with a crash do not know why

perhaps they had inproperly closed

the beast coming out of there

said, "today I'll take it off"

spoke of his virginity

of which he still lived in slavery

beware the gorilla!

The owner started screaming

"My gorilla, beware"

has never seen a monkey

could be confused

all presents at this point

fled in all directions

also women showed

the difference between idea and action

beware the gorilla!

All the people running in a hurry

here and there with great enthusiasm

linger just a little old lady

and a youth judge in his robes

as the other they had melted

the accelerated Quadrumana

and the old and the magistrate

he went with four jumps

beware the gorilla!

"Bah, sighed thinking of the old lady,

I'd still be wanted

would be very strange thing

and for nothing more than hoped"

"I will be taken for a monkey

thought the judge with shortness of breath,

is not possible, that's for sure "

Following is the evidence that he was wrong

beware the gorilla!

If any of you were

forced up against the wall,

violating a judge or an old lady

I would be sure of your choice

but it turns out that the gorilla

considered a great drum

by those who have tried but does not shine

for neither the spirit nor the taste

beware the gorilla!

In fact, he, disdaining the old lady

goes to the judge

strong to catch him by the ear

and drags him into the middle of a meadow

what happened in the tall grass

I can not tell the full

but the show was exciting

and the "suspense" there was really

beware the gorilla!

I will only say that on the more beautiful moment

of the unpleasant and gloomy drama

the judge cried like a calf

cried "mom" in the intervals

"Mom" he screamed as the guy

which the day before as a chicken

with a sentence a little original

had cut the neck.

beware the gorilla!

• Artist:Fabrizio De André
• Album:Volume III (1968)