Once again the Teatro dei Differenti was the centre point for cultural life in Barga this evening as part of the Saggi Finali 2014 of the Scuola Musica Barga saw Maurizio Biagoni and his Theatre Laboratorio put on an emotionally charged production based on the song, Bocca di Rosa by Fabrizio de Andrè.
Fabrizio de Andrè (1940-99) is often described as an Italian Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen.
La chiamavano bocca di rosa
metteva l’amore, metteva l’amore,
la chiamavano bocca di rosa
metteva l’amore sopra ogni cosa.
Appena scese alla stazione
nel paesino di Sant’Ilario
tutti si accorsero con uno sguardo
che non si trattava di un missionario.
C’è chi l’amore lo fa per noia
chi se lo sceglie per professione
bocca di rosa né l’uno né l’altro
lei lo faceva per passione.
Ma la passione spesso conduce
a soddisfare le proprie voglie
senza indagare se il concupito
ha il cuore libero oppure ha moglie.
E fu così che da un giorno all’altro
bocca di rosa si tirò addosso
l’ira funesta delle cagnette
a cui aveva sottratto l’osso.
Ma le comari di un paesino
non brillano certo in iniziativa
le contromisure fino a quel punto
si limitavano all’invettiva.
Her name was Bocca di Rosa
and she thought that nothing, she thought that nothing,
Her name was Bocca di Rosa
and she thought that nothing was better than love.
When her train pulled into Sant’Ilario
by the time she had stepped to the ground,
the welcoming crowd, at a glance, saw it wasn’t
the Church that had sent her to town.
There are some who make love for a living,
others have nothing better to do.
Bocca di Rosa, she wasn’t like either:
love was her passion through and through.
But a life in the service of passion
often will lead you from bed to bed
without first finding out of your lover
whether his heart’s free or whether he’s wed.
And so, from one day to another,
Bocca di Rosa found herself prey
to the menacing wrath of those bitches
whose bones she had taken away.
But a village’s meddling gossips
great initiative hardly display,
so up to this point their revenge had been merely
to hurl a few insults her way.