Lonely Gondolier (Il-Gondoliere)
Written for: Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Performer: Dick Powell
English lyric: Al Dubin
Italian lyric: Manuel Emanuel
Music: Harry Warren
Year: 1935
Original publisher: M. Witmark & Sons
English lyric:
Verse:
I'm dreaming of hours I've never known,
I'm dreaming of someone to call my own.
I sing you a love song, but all in vain,
For nobody answers my love refrain;
Chorus:
A lonely gondolier is singing of romance underneath the stars,
While voices in the shadows hum to the strum of guitars.
He puts his heart into the love song, so many lovers come to hear,
And then into the waters blue, there falls a tear,
To tell the story of the lonely gondolier.
Italian lyric:
Verse:
Su l'onda d'orata un gondoliere,
Afflitto e mesto remando va;
Nostalgicamente la sua canzon,
I cuori inebria di voluttą.
Chorus:
Il gondoliere va cantando sotto il bel ciel' turchino,
Del suo divino_amor lontano il lamento mattutino.
Il gondoliere va cantando la dolce sua canzon d'amore,
Sull' onda giubila il sole del l'amor.
L'amore giubila nel cor del gondoliere.
