Credited on the record as Michele L. Straniero accompagnato da Paolo, Alberto e Massimo Ciarchi.
No alla guerra
1967 · I Dischi del Sole DS 207 · Milan, Italy
- Artist
- Michele L. Straniero
- Credited on the record as
- Michele L. Straniero accompagnato da Paolo, Alberto e Massimo Ciarchi
- Title
- No alla guerra
- Release
- No alla guerra / Bella ciao
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- I Dischi del Sole # DS 207
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Milan, Italy
- Songwriter
- Tedo Madonia, Ignazio Buttitta
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Italian Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
Italian
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: There is a mafia in tails / There is a court martial / Gravediggers and the funeral / Of all humanity / The whole world says no / [Chorus] To peace it says yes! / To schools it says yes! / To work it says yes! / To joy it says yes! / To the mafia it says no / To war it says no, no, no! [End Chorus] / They are a hundred associates / A hundred raving madmen / Famous monsters and beasts / With a license of honesty / The whole world says no.... / There is a mafia in uniform / (Generals and colonels) / Preparing slaughterhouses / To save humanity / The whole world says no.... / The hurricane of war / Is in Vietnam, dropping bombs / Dead and graves, dead and graves / Today there, tomorrow here? / The whole world says no.... / In Greece no one sings / Even the people of Homer / Weep under a black sky / For their lost freedom / The whole world says no.... / If a grain of cement / Is laid by everyone on earth / Above the war will rise / The city of peace / The whole world says no / To peace it says yes! / To schools it says yes! / To work it says yes! / To joy it says yes! / To the mafia it says no / To war it says no, no, no! __________ Italian: C'è una mafia con il frack / C'è una corte marziale / Beccamorti e funerale / Dell'intera umanità / Tutto il mondo dice no / [Chorus] Alla pace dice sì! / Alle scuole dice sì! / Al lavoro dice sì! / Alla gioia dice sì! / Alla mafia dice no / Alla guerra dice no, no, no! [End Chorus] / Sono cento associati / Cento pazzi furiosi /…
Notes
I Dischi del Sole DS 207 "Due canzoni per la marcia" (Edizioni del Gallo, November 1967), issued for the Marcia dal Nord e dal Sud per il Vietnam per la Pace, Milan, 4–29 November 1967, and sold on the march for 500 lire; "No alla guerra", verses by Ignazio Buttitta, music by Tedo Madonia, sung by Straniero with Paolo, Alberto and Massimo Ciarchi; B side "Bella ciao" by the Compagnia del Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano; sleeve drawing by E. Treccani, cover by Paolo Ciarchi; full lyric on the back (a mafia in tails, a mafia in uniform, the hurricane of war "in the Viet"). [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 27 September 1936, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. Died 7 December 2000, Torino, Piemonte, Italy.
Themes
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]