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Donna Lombarda

Woman of Lombardy

"Woman of Lombardy, why don't you love me ?"
"Woman of Lombardy, why don't you love me ?"
"Because I have a husband, because I have a husband."

"If you have a husaband, then make to kill him,
I'll teach you, I'll teach you.
Go down in the garden of your father.
There is a serpent, there is a serpent.
Take the head of this serpent,
and chop it well, chop it well.
When you have chopped it up well,
put it in a glass, put it in a glass.
Returning your husband, tired and thirsty,
he asks you for a drink, he asks you for a drink."
"My husband, which do you like,
the white or the black, the white or the black ?"
"Give me of the black, it is the better,
give me of the black, give me of the black."
When a baby of nine months:
"Papa, don't drink it, because there is poison !"