+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.)
