Baby Bea likes music and she particularly likes being sung to. Lucky then that in Mummy and Nonna (though thankfully not Daddy) I have two people who are more than happy to accede to my every whim on this account. And pretty much every other account actually.
The best thing is that they sing me songs which have been passed down the old fashioned way, from mother to daughter for generations.
This is one of my favorite songs, it is called 'Sul Cappello Che Noi Portiamo', which means 'The Hat That We Wear' and strangely for a song that you sing a baby was actually a marching song by the Alpini, the Italian mountain soliders, celebrating the black feather that they wore in their caps!
Sul cappello, sul cappello che noi portiamo,
c’è una lunga, c’è una lunga penna nera,
che a noi serve, che a noi serve da bandiera,
su pei monti, su pei monti a guerreggiar. Oi la la.
Evviva evviva il reggimento,
evviva evviva il corpo degli Alpin.
c’è una lunga, c’è una lunga penna nera,
che a noi serve, che a noi serve da bandiera,
su pei monti, su pei monti a guerreggiar. Oi la la.
Evviva evviva il reggimento,
evviva evviva il corpo degli Alpin.
On the hat, on the hat that we wear
there's a long, there's a long black feather
that we use, that we use as our flag
on the mountains, on the mountains on which we fight. Oi la la
Hurrah to the regiment
Hurrah to the corps of the Alpini
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