It’s one of my favorite movies. The type when I catch it on TV, I watch it if I can. One of my favorite scenes during the movie is at the wedding when the old man is singing in Italian. I’ll assume he’s the grandfather of the groom or bride or an older uncle.
Anyway, in his short 30 seconds or so of screen time, I think he’s singing about life and the bedroom part of marriage. But what exactly is he saying?!
It’s called La Luna Mezza O’Mare
And the moon is in the middle of the sea:
oh my mother I must get married –
oh my daughter who will we get?
My mother I leave it up to you.
(i)
If I get you the butcher
he will come and he will go,
but he’ll always hold the sausage in his hands…
If he gets a bright idea
he’ll sausage you oh my daughter.
(ii)
If I get you the fisherman
he will come and he will go,
but he’ll always hold the fish in his hands…
If he gets a bright idea
he’ll fish you oh my daughter.
(iii)
If I get you the shoemaker
he will come and he will go,
but he’ll always hold the shoe in his hands…
If he gets a bright idea
he’ll shoe you oh my daughter.
(iv)
If I get you the garden man
he will come and he will go,
but he’ll always hold the cucumber in his hands…
If he gets a bright idea
he’ll cucumber you oh my daughter.
Thanks!
In the novel it is suppose to be a young drunken man named Nino Valenti, singing coarse songs that the men and women love (save Vito Corleone, who is strait lace in sex. But his stout wife is singing happily). Nino is one of Vito’s godsons and a truck driver. In one of the subplots of the novel (along with big vagina Lucy) thankfully left out of the movie Johnny Fontane (who initially tells Vito that Nino isn’t good enough to be a star, which Vito waves off as unimportant) decides to please Vito by bringing Nino to Hollywood. Nino becomes a recording and movie star but dies young because of alcoholism.
Now that I know what the song is, you tube helped me out.
I noticed the lyrics are a bit different in the movie. Check it out.
