《America’s a Nice Italian Name》歌词

[00:05:06] America's A Nice Italian Name - Allan Sherman

[00:05:06] I live in Italy, the sky is sunny.

[00:05:06] 'T'sa nice-a place. 't'sa nice-a place.

[00:05:06] And if you think the way I talk is funny,

[00:05:06] Shaddup-a you face. Shaddup-a you face.

[00:05:06] America to me is not so foreign.

[00:05:06] It's just the same. She's just the same.

[00:05:06] Of course you have-a no got Sophia Loren.

[00:05:06] Don't be ashamed, don't be ashamed.

[00:05:06] Bella, bella, atsa means-a cute.

[00:05:06] Vespa, Vespa, atsa motor scoot.

[00:05:06] And if you in a nice-a mood for some-a nice Italian food,

[00:05:06] Veal with cheese-a on it is Veal Parmigiana.

[00:05:06] The opera house in Rome is called La Scala.

[00:05:06] Is very strange. Is very strange.

[00:05:06] Ten thousand lira makes a half-a-dolla.

[00:05:06] You getta some change. You getta some change.

[00:05:06] In Venice if you do a lotta driving,

[00:05:06] Then don't-a forget, please don't forget,

[00:05:06] Before you drive, go study scuba diving.

[00:05:06] The streets is-a wet. The streets is-a wet.

[00:05:06] Vino, vino, atsa glass-a wine.

[00:05:06] You drink Yousef, I'll-a drink-a mine.

[00:05:06] Vittorio DeSica makes a picture twice-a week-a.

[00:05:06] Soup with macaroni is called-a minnestrone.

[00:05:06] I wrote to Anna Maria Alberghetti.

[00:05:06] She sings-a high. Up very high.

[00:05:06] I typed the letter on my Olivetti,

[00:05:06] I don't know why. I took a try.

[00:05:06] Dean Martin, he's a nice Italian fella.

[00:05:06] A friend of Frank's. A friend of Frank's.

[00:05:06] If you give them a piece of mozzarella,

[00:05:06] They tell you thanks. A thousand thanks.

[00:05:06] Dolce, dolce, dolce means-a sweet.

[00:05:06] Grapes is-a things-a you stamp with you feet.

[00:05:06] The Tower of Pisa, she's-a lean. A Necchi is a sewin' machine.

[00:05:06] Eat-a some lasagna, but-a don't get any on ya.

[00:05:06] A nice-a painter was Botticelli.

[00:05:06] He's very old, he's very old.

[00:05:06] He's-a paint a lady with a naked belly,

[00:05:06] She caught a cold. She caught a cold.

[00:05:06] I know a man who wrote a song, "Volare"

[00:05:06] He gotta cash. A lotta cash.

[00:05:06] He took-a da cash and bought a new Ferrari.

[00:05:06] He made a crash. His fender smash.

[00:05:06] Gina, Gina Lollobrigida.

[00:05:06] I love her, but que sera sera.

[00:05:06] And if you see Anna Magnani with Marcello Mastroianni,

[00:05:06] Ask if you could borra some spaghetti marinara.

[00:05:06] Columbus was a nice Italian fella.

[00:05:06] He had no boats. He needed some boats.

[00:05:06] So he's fool around with Queen Isabella.

[00:05:06] She hadda three boats. She give him the boats.

[00:05:06] The queen, she said, "Columbus, pootchy-wootchy,

[00:05:06] If you should land in some new land,

[00:05:06] Please name it for Americus Vespucci,

[00:05:06] 'Cause he's a nice Italian man.

[00:05:06] Nina, Pinta, and-a Saint Marie,

[00:05:06] Fourteen-a ninety-two they sailed the sea,

[00:05:06] They found the land and it was grand, and then Columbus he's proclaim:

[00:05:06] "I call this land America, a nice Italian name."

[00:05:06] (And that's-a why America's a nice Italian name.)