Mi votu e mi rivotu [English translation]

I turn and turn again sighing

I spend whole nights awake

I admire your beauty

and see the whole night pass until dawn

Because of you now I no longer sleep

My aching heart has no more peace

Do you know when I'll leave you?

When my life ends and I'll die

O dove, walking along the seashore,

stop that I must ask you a couple words

stop so I can take a plume off your wings

to write letters to my love.

I write you letters, two, three

But never a reply from you I receive

Have you not paper to write

or you cannot write?

I turn and turn again sighing

I spend whole nights without sleeping ...

• Artist:Rosa Balistreri