Nuvolari [English translation]

Nuvolari1 is short

Nuvolari is below normal

Nuvolari has 50 kg of bones

Nuvolari has an exceptional body.

Nuvolari has hands like claws

Nuvolari has a talisman against evil.

His gaze is a hawk's gaze for his children

his muscles are exceptional.

Birds in the skies lose their wings when Nuvolari drives by

Nuvolari is terrifying when he drives by

because the engine is savage as it cuts roaring through the plain.

The trees along the road crawl on the grass

on the walls, glass shards turn into slush

all dust is blown away.

When Nuvolari races, when Nuvolari drives by

people come in droves and lie down on meadows.

When Nuvolari drives by, when Nuvolari races

people wait for him for hours on end

and finally when they hear a noise

they jump to their feet and wave at him

they shout words of love to him

and watch him disappear

as they would watch a mounted soldier

a mounted soldier in the April sky.

Nuvolari is swarthy

Nuvolari has a sharp face

Nuvolari always keeps his mouth shut

he doesn't care about death.

He runs when it rains, he runs under the sun,

for him, three and three is always seven.

He does what he wants with his red Alfa Romeo2

in the flames of a hundred thunderbolts.

Fate always has an extra number when Nuvolari races.

When Nuvolari drives, everyone feel his heart close.

In the race in Verona he is ahead of Bordino3

under hellish weather, rain, hail and wind,

high danger of running off the road, every lap is hell.

But he swerves, slides, he is crushed,

they pick him up as good as dead.

But Nuvolari is born again like a lizard

he beats Varzi4 and Campari

Borzacchini and Fagioli

Brilli-Peri and Ascari.

1. Tazio Nuvolari, an Italian racing driver active during the first half of the 20th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazio_Nuvolari2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_in_motorsport3. Pietro Bordino, another racing driver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Bordino 4. More Italian racing drivers:

Achille Varzi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Varzi

Giuseppe Campari: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Campari

Baconin Borzacchini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baconin_Borzacchini

Luigi Fagioli: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Fagioli

Gastone Brilli-Peri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastone_Brilli-Peri

Antonio Ascari: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Ascari

• Artist:Lucio Dalla
• Album:Automobili