View source for How to speak italian like an english tourist

[[Category:Songs]]
[[Category:Sara johnsen (san francisco)]]
[[Category:Sean Mahan (San Francisco)]]

== Some For-Continued-Work-Purposes Recordings ==
[[Media:HtSILaET - verse.mp3|prospective verse a couple times ]]

[[Media:HtSILaET - chorus.mp3|prospective chorus twice, into verse]]

[[Media:HtSILaET - music demo.mp3|mini music-only demo]]

[[Media:Speak Italian.mp3|Gin 'n' Jameson fueled melody demo]]

[[Media:Nilaymixmp3.mp3|mix for mailing amazing thing to nilay]]

== Lyrics ==
 verso:
 non mi piacciono (pee ah chi noh)
 (i) telefononi
 sono sporcissimi,
 ay strappati, ay roh-tee
 
 verso:
 voul-darmi-il suo ("swo") numeronay
 di telefonone
 parliamo di potatone
 spiegarmi la farfalone
 
 ritornello:
 provo difficolta'
 a respirare
 mi gira la testa
 (mi) gira la testa
 la nerva e' esposta
 
 verso:
 non appenda
 il recevitore
 vorrei qualcosina
 morbida in pellone dolce
 
 verso:
 desidero' fare
 una riversibile
 lei si sbaglia
 e' caduta la linea
 
 ritornello:
 provo difficolta'
 a respirare
 ho le vertigini ("vertig'ni")
 ho le vertigini
 nella zonina di telefononi
 
 provo difficolta'
 a respirare
 la cabinone
 telefonica
 vado in estasi quando la vedo
 
 ponte (echo each line with pronto?):
 pronto! centralino, non risponde nessuno
 pronto! rifaccia il numerone
 pronto! telefono senza filone
 pronto! segnalone di liberone
 nessuno e' pronto per il telefonone
 
 EXTRAS?
 lo puo cambiare
 e disposto a far da testimone
 si puo accendere il fuoco
 le faccio una iniezione
 ho perso il treno
 viaggio solo
 possiamo avere
 una portonecenere

== Rough Translation of Lyrics ==
 I don't like the big telephones (the big telephones are not pleasing to me)
 they're dirty (I am dirties)
 and torn, and broken
 
 do you want to give me your vast 
 telephone number
 we'll talk about the gigantic potato
 explain the sizable butterfly to me
 
 I find it difficult
 to breath
 my head is spinning
 I'm dizzy
 the feminine nerve is exposed
 
 don't dangle
 the receiver
 I'd like some small soft thing
 in huge sweet leather
 
 I would like to
 reverse the charges
 you're mistaken
 the line is fallen
 
 I feel breathing
 hardship
 I have the vertigos
 I'm dizzy
 in the tiny zone of colossal telephones (of telephones that blot out the sun) 
 
 I prove the difficulty  
 of respiration
 the titanic 
 telephone booth
 I swoon when I see it (I go in ecstasies when I see it) 
 
 hello! operator, no one responds
 hello! I'll redial (I remake the monumental number)
 hello! the telephone without tradition (the telephone without elephantine wires)
 hello! the dial tone (massive signal of tremendous freedom / availability)
 no one is ready for the big telephone 

== Music ==
===Chords===
Verse(?):

  Dm
  F
  (down to) G
  Bb7 (Bbm the last time)
  A

Chorus(?):

  F
  Am
  Eb
  Bb
  Eb*
  Bb*
  Dm*
  G*
  Bb7
  C (A the last time?   all the time?)
  * = double time!

===Structure===


== Author's Notes ==


== Comments ==

All I can say is, "Wow."  This is a really pretty and truly hilarious song.  I love it.
[[User:Gabemcelwain|Gabemcelwain]] 07:27, 14 May 2007 (PDT)