"Lu Rusciu te lu Mare" Alla Bua "Italian Tarantella - Music of Italy"

Alla Bua playing this fantastic traditional Italian song "The roar of the Sea" Alla Bua is one of the most important Italian folk groups from Lecce (Pizzica Salentina an Italian Tarantella) for more info about Italy visit: http://www.italianbusinessguide.com/ Alla Bua will be playing this August 21 at Alessano during the Festival NOTTE DELLA TARANTA 2008 an Italian tarantella (Pizzica Salentina) Folk Festival in Lecce Salento, Italy LU RUSCIU TE LU MARE (Gallipoli Lecce) Nu giurnu scei 'ncaccia a li patuli e 'ntisi na cranonchiula cantare. A una a una le sentia cantare ca me pariane lu rusciu te lu mare. Lu rusciu te lu mare è troppu forte la fija te lu re si ta la morte. Iddha si ta la morte e jeu la vita la fija te lu re sta se marita. Iddha sta se marita e jeu me 'nzuru la fija te li re porta nu fiuru. Iddha porta nu fiuru e jeu na parma la fija te lu re sta va 'lla Spagna. Iddha sta va la Spagna e jeu 'n Turchia la fija te lu re è a zita mia. E vola vola vola vola vola e vola vola vola palomba mia ca jeu lu core meu te l'aggiu ddare ca jeu lu core meu te l'aggiu ddare TE ROAR OF THE SEA - LU RUSCIU TE LU MARE (LYRICS) One night I was walking along the marsh And I heard the frogs singing And I heard the frogs singing One by one I heard them singing So that it sounded like the roar of the sea So that it sounded like the roar of the sea The roar of the sea is very loud The king's daughter gives herself to death She gives herself to death and I to life The king's daughter is going to get married She's going to be married and I'll be bridegroom The king's daughter gives me a flower She gives me a flower and I give her a palmtree The king's daughter is going to Spain She's going to Spain and I'm to Turkey The kings's daughter my sweetheart And fly fly fly dove fly And fly fly fly my dove For I have got this heart For I have got this heart to give you The roar of the sea is very loud The king's daughter gives herself to death The king's daughter gives herself to death CONCERTI DELLA NOTTE DELLA TARANTA 2008 Il Festival itinerante La Notte della Taranta - che precede il concertone finale di Melpignano del 23 agosto - si svolgerà dal 7 al 21 agosto (con la consueta pausa la sera del 15) nelle piazze dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina (Calimera, Carpignano Salentino, Castrignano dei Greci, Corigliano d'Otranto, Cutrofiano, Martano, Martignano, Soleto, Zollino), di Alessano, Galatina, Cursi e Marina di Andrano NOTTE DELLA TARANTA 2008 in GRECIA SALENTINA (Salentinian Greece) Is a Griko-speaking area in the peninsula of Salento in southern Italy, near the town of Lecce. It consists of nine towns and belongs to province of Lecce and the administrative area of Apulia (Puglia). Nine towns make part of it: Calimera, Martano, Castrignano dei Greci, Corigliano d'Otranto, Melpignano, Soleto, Sternatia, Zollino and Martignano. In addition to these, there are two more towns represented in the Union of the Towns of Grecìa Salentina (Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina), Carpignano Salentino and Cutrofiano, though the inhabitants of these two towns have not spoken the Greek dialect called griko in two centuries