| Lyrics: | America's A Nice Italian Name
I live in Italy, the sky is sunny.
'T'sa nice-a place.
't'sa nice-a place.
And if you think the way I talk is funny,
Shaddup-a you face.
Shaddup-a you face.
America to me is not so foreign.
It's just the same. She's just the
same.
Of course you have-a no got Sophia Loren.
Don't be ashamed, don't be
ashamed.
Bella, bella, atsa means-a cute.
Vesta, Vesta, atsa motor scoot.
And
if you in a nice-a mood for some-a nice Italian food,
Veal with cheese-a on it is Veal
Parmigiana.
The opera house in Rome is called La Scala.
Is very strange. Is very
strange.
Ten thousand lira makes a half-a-dolla.
You getta some change. You getta some
change.
In Venice if you do a lotta driving,
Then don't-a forget, please don't
forget,
Before you drive, go study scuba diving.
The streets is-a wet. The streets is-a
wet.
Vino, vino, atsa glass-a wine.
You drink Yousef, I'll-a drink-a
mine.
Vittorio DeSica makes a picture twice-a week-a.
Soup with macaroni is called-a
minnestrone.
I wrote to Anna Maria Alberghetti.
She sings-a high. Up very
high.
I typed the letter on my Olivetti,
I don't know why. I took a try.
Dean
Martin, he's a nice Italian fella.
A friend of Frank's. A friend of Frank's.
If you give
them a piece of mozzarella,
They tell you thanks. A thousand thanks.
Dolce, dolce,
dolce means-a sweet.
Grapes is-a things-a you stamp with you feet.
The Tower of Pisa,
she's-a lean. A Necchi is a sewin' machine.
Eat-a some lasagna, but-a don't get any on
ya.
A nice-a painter was Botticelli.
He's very old, he's very old.
He's-a paint
a lady with a naked belly,
She caught a cold. She caught a cold.
I know a man who wrote a
song, "Volare"
He gotta cash. A lotta cash.
He took-a da cash and bought a new
Ferrari.
He made a crash. His fender smash.
Gina, Gina Lollobrigida.
I love
her, but que sera sera.
And if you see Anna Magnani with Marcello Mastroianni,
Ask if you
could borra some spaghetti marinara.
Columbus was a nice Italian fella.
He had no
boats. He needed some boats.
So he's fool around with Queen Isabella.
She hadda three
boats. She give him the boats.
The queen, she said, "Columbus, pootchy-wootchy,
If you
should land in some new land,
Please name it for Americus Vespucci,
'Cause he's a nice
Italian man.
Nina, Pinta, and-a Saint Marie,
Fourteen-a ninety-two they sailed the
sea,
They found the land and it was grand, and then Columbus he's proclaim:
"I call this
land America, a nice Italian name."
(And that's-a why America's a nice Italian name |
