Lyrics
DE VULCANI CONFLAGRATIONE
Lalla lalla, lalla lalla:
aut dormi aut lacte;
nisi lactes, dormi, dormi...
Lalla lalla, lalla lalla....
.............
Repente tonitrus caelum perrupit
et nigra nubes apparuit
magnitudine ac specie inusitata.
Paulo post flammae et ignei lapilli
orbem terrarum lustrabant.
Caelum cunctum obscuratum,
oculos caligo operuit:
alibi iam dies erat,
illic nox gravior nigrior densior omnibus.
Primum in urbe et in omnibus agris
homines adficiebantur miri,
insoliti spectaculi stupore. Deinde
imminentis periculi vicit metus...
Alii fugiebant, spectabant immoti
alii imagines vanas,
alii iuvare alios iustum reputabant.
Cum cinis gravior decidere coepit,
latius incendium diruptum.
Caelum cunctum obscuratum,
oculos caligo operuit:
alibi iam dies erat,
illic nox gravior nigrior densior omnibus.
Domus, viae cinere pumicibusque
deletae sunt, vitae humanae.
Et horribile silentium imperavit,
maxima conflagratione confecta,
in mundo depopulato.
Music by M. De Rosa
Lyrics by E. Fusco
THE VOLCANO'S ERUPTION (English language)
Lullaby, lullaby,
sleep or have your milk;
if you donít suck... sleep!
Lullaby, lullaby...
............
Suddenly a thunder dispelled the sky
and a black cloud appeared:
it was extremely great and strange.
Not long later flames and burning lapillus
illuminated the earth.
All the sky darkened,
fog covered the eyes:
somewhere else it was already day,
there a darkest, blackest, densest night of all...
At first in town and in every field
men were amazed of that
extraordinary and unusual show.
Then the fear of the imminent danger prevailed.
Some people fled, others still looked
at the fantastic images, others
thought it right help one another.
When heavier ash started to fall
a greater fire spread on.
All the sky darkened,
fog covered the eyes:
somewhere else it was already day,
there a darkest, blackest, densest night of all.
Homes, streets, human lives
where destroyed by ash and burning rocks.
And a terrible silence ruled,
when the enormous explosion ended
in the emptied world.
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