Rimini [English translation]

Teresa has dry eyes

She is staring at the sea

For her, daughter of pirates,

I think it's quite normal.

Teresa says little

Her lips are chapped

She tells me of a love, lost

in Rimini in summer.

She says he was burnt in the piazza

By the Saint Inquisition

Maybe he was lost in Cuba

During the Revolution

Or in the Arbor of New York

In a witch hunt

Or maybe he was lost nowhere

But no one believes her.

Chorus: Rimini, Rimini

And Columbus called her

From his sedan

She removes his handcuffs

She tucks his sheets

“For a sad Catholic King” Says he

“I invented a reign

And he has butchered it

Upon a wooden cross”

“And two mistakes I’ve made

Two errors of wisdom

To abort the America

And then looking at it with sweetness”

“But you men

Underneath the wind and the sailings

Don’t give promised lands

To those who don’t keep them”.

Chorus: Rimini, Rimini

Now Teresa is in the Harrys’ Bar

She is staring at the sea

For her, the grocer's daughter,

I think it's quite normal.

She’s wearing a blade on the neck

It’s a hundred years old

I haven’t heard much of her

But she doesn’t seem a liar.

“And a mistake I’ve made

An error of wisdom

To abort the son of the lifeguard

And then to look at him with sweetness”

But you, in Rimini

Among ice creams and flags

Don’t bet any more

On the grocer’s daughter.

Chorus: Rimini, Rimini

• Artist:Fabrizio De André
• Album:Rimini (1978)