Le Lac Majeur [English translation]

It's snowing on Lake Maggiore

The lyre-birds are in tears

And the poor Italian wine

Has been dressed in straw for nothing

The children shout with happiness

And they spread terror

With sliding and bombardments*

It's from their age and time

I have forgotten everything of happiness

It's snowing on Lake Maggiore

I've forgotten everything of happiness

It's snowing on Lake Maggiore

Here are the new gladiators

And they say that the circus dies

And the poor Italian blood

Flows greatly, and for nothing

It's snowing on Lake Maggiore

The lyre-birds are in tears

I hear something like a motor

It's the five o' clock boat

I have forgotten everything of happiness

It's snowing on Lake Maggiore

I've forgotten everything of happiness

It's snowing on Lake Maggiore