Track 10 & 11 - Mi Me Ne Fon (LIVE VERSION)
The original field recording that inspired the arrangement:
Mi Me Ne Fon is a crowd favorite! It’s an 11 verse song that, on the field recording, was seemingly being sung in a bar by a group of men that may have already been a few drinks into their evening. In the song the man is relentlessly trying to pursue a lady that he fancies. The woman continually denies the pursuer and comes up with different excuses such as “I would rather turn into a nun than marry you!” to which the pursuer always has a response such as: “Then I will turn into a priest so that I can listen to your confession.” Throughout the piece the couples goes back and forth until the woman threatens that she would rather die than marry him, he responds by saying, “then I will become an undertaker so that I can burry you!” and she concludes by saying, “Then let’s get a ring and get married!”
This was the last song of the evening and the audience WENT FOR IT!
LYRICS:
Mi me ne fon ina sciura Per mete'n ti 'n rusà
mi me ne fon ina sciura per mete'n ti 'n rusà
Se ti fai'n sciura Per mete'n ti 'n rusà
mi me faró in' ape te vegniròn a'udurà
Se ti te farai'n ape per metime a'u durà
mi me faró in'ucèllo me meterron a vurà
Se ti te fai'n'ucèllo per metite a vurà
mi me faròn cacciatore te vegniròn a sparà
Se ti te fai cacciatore per vegnime a sparà
mi me faró munega per non volèrti sposar
Se ti te farai munega per non volèrmi sposar
mi me faro'un capucino te vegnirò'a cunfestà
la la la la la……
Se ti te fai capucino per vegnime'a cunfesà
mi me faròn marota per non volèrti sposar
Se ti te fai marota per non volèrmi sposar
mi me faròn dotore te vegnirò'a vijità
la la la la la……
Se ti te fai dotore per vegnime'a vijità
mi me faròn morta per non volèrti sposar
Se ti te farai morta per non volèrmi sposar
mi me faròn becalino te vegnirò'a suterà
Se ti te fai becalino per vegnime'a suterà
a presto un' anellino che ce ne'andremo sposar
la la la la la……
TRANSLATION:
I will turn into a flower for planting in a rose garden.
If you turn into a flower for planting in a rose garden, I’ll turn into a bee, I will come and smell you.
If you turn into a bee to smell me, I’ll turn into a bird, I will start to fly.
If you turn into a bird and start to fly, I’ll become a hunter, I’ll come and shoot you.
If you turn into a hunter to come and shoot me, I’ll become a nun so as not to marry you.
If you become a nun so as not to marry me, I’ll become a Capucin [friar] and I will come to hear your confession
If you become a Capucin to come hear my confession, I will become ill so as not to marry you.
If you become ill so as not to marry me, I’ll turn into a doctor, I will make a house call.
If you turn into a doctor to make a house call, I’ll give up and die so as not to marry you.
If you give up and die so as not to marry me, I’ll become an undertaker and come to bury you.
If you become an undertaker to come and bury me, quick a wedding ring, let us go get married.