Talk:Saturday in the Park (song)
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[edit] Singing Italian Songs…
This may not be the right place to ask this, but I would like to know exactly what is being sung by the Italian man selling ice-cream. I have tried syllabifying standard Italian into a feasible sentence and, zero. I am also cognizant of the fact that there are around 30+ (basic) dialects of Italian and am too overflooded with the phonetic possibilities of them all to try to apply this phrase. Here's basically what the phrase sounds like (in IPA):
- /ˈɛ.ku̹ ˈʋa.re i se ˈn̪a.d̪e/
which in Italian could (perhaps) be spelt:
- Eccu varre hi se nade.
Again, I am uncertain of the actual written syllabic division. I have looked at lyric websites and they pretty much all say the same thing: (improvised Italian). I did see one attempt to transcribe the phrase which looked something like ekoo varee ee say nardee which, to me, seems worse than my own guess of the phrase. It is possible that he (Lamm) did use improvised Italian, but I suspect that the phrase means something in some Italian dialect. Can anyone help me here? —or— ♬Does anybody really know what phrase it is?♬ Does anybody really care? I do. Please help! Mille grazie!—Strabismus 20:50, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
