Italia 21 [English translation]

1 - We aren't certainly wanting for bread and wine

2 - Nor for Sun in this holy Italy

3 - A peninsula shaped like a stiletto

4 - Everybody has something to say, we just lack the cricket

We just lack the cricket 1

5 - Thanks to Saint Gennaro there's no beast that Six us 2

7 - Without You I wouldn't know what numbers to play for lotto

8 - The nation takes a piss upwind

9 - But we all are proud of Risorgimento

We all are proud of Risorgimento

10 - Someone makes through the month as if using a dropper

11 - Someone gets the pulp, someone the peel

12 - Luckily for us the 1st of May will come again

13 - We have Dante, a lot of fava beans, but no cheese

A lot of fava beans, but no cheese

14 - Someone pigs it out and brazens it out

15 - But in the end who cares

16 - Hang on, the football match is about to start

17 - Is bad luck, fingers crossed

Shit, the match is already over

It's already over, it's already over

Add your number

Among all these

Add your number

We'll be all happy with that

Make your choice

Believe me, it's true

Even this time

You'll be prisoner 3

18 - Viva Italy with a microphone in hand

19 - I'll sing, too, as I am an Italian

20 - A good glass of red wine with pennette

21 - Just fucking around at the tavern and a game of tresette 4

Tavern number seven 5

Here they love their salami sliced

Give it 6 to me, blondie

Give it to me, blonde girl

1. Probably an allusion to the Talking Cricket, the know-it-all character of the Adventures of Pinocchio2. The translation tentatively conveys the pun. Literally the text reads 'Saint Gennaro, thanks for existing'3. Probably an allusion to a children's counting-out game4. Italian game of cards5. An allusion to the Taverns Folk Song, an Italian ballad full of obscenity, where each stanza talks about what happens inside a tavern marked by a progressive number. Here the song omits the parts characterized by the spiciest sexual innuendo6. Certainly not a slice of salami: 'it' stands for 'your pussy'

• Artist:Francesco Gabbani