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Deu No Bollu Arriri (transl. Angulu Conju)

from House on Swallow Street by Kristina Jacobsen

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written by Kristina Jacobsen, translated by Anjulu Conju.

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Kristina Jacobsen, transl. Anjulu Conju

~places written: Albuquerque, New Mexico and Cagliari, Sardinia

Sardinian (Campidanese):

Fustis* postus a filera
Po sa petza chi fiant coendi
Totu pigada
De pensamentus furia* deu

E unu bèciu nd’est bessiu
Fiat stantàrgiu apalas mia
At nau:
“E arrii pagu pagu, ajò! La’ chi ses bia!”

Ma ita càuli bolit custu?
E chini dd’at biu mai?
E chini dd’at donau su permissu de mi nai
Coment’e bivi o incingiai sa faci mia?

E forsis…
Deu no bollu arrii
Nimancu essi amodada o setiosa
E ita chi deu gana no ndi tengu
De abarrai a innoi chistionendi

E ita chi imoi deu no bollu arrii?

Ascu’, nara-mì una cosa:
seu una femina
Ia a depi essi donosa po fortza
Acanta de un’òmini e in totu sighiri su connotu?

E ita chi custa dii scrabionada m’as a biri
Mancai amaciocada e impurpia
Poni-mì in sa pesa de sa sociedadi
Cali est su pesu cosa mia?

E ita chi no bollu arrii?
Chi no bollu essi bellixedda o bistia beni
E ita chi deu gana no ndi tengu
De abarrai a innoi chistionendi cun tui?

Seu forsis imbusticada
bessendi-ndi gaddinosa
Seu forsis frida, siddada
O mancai s’ègua de is seti pratzas?

Giai chi seus paris, a su mancu custa borta
Podit essi puru chi pighi custa gherra
chi parit una ciaciarrada
e fatza totu su chi potzu

E insandus…
deu no depu arrii
No depu essi bellixedda o bistia beni
E insandus deu gana no ndi tengu
De abarrai a innoi chistionendi

Ca imoi deu no depu arrii
Ca imoi deu no depu arrii

English Translation:

I was standing in line
At a Carolina barbecue joint
Lost in thought
Some heavy things on my mind

When an older man
Standing behind me says
“Smile sweetheart,
it can’t be that bad”

But how can he be so sure?
He wouldn’t know me from Adam
And what gives him the right
To tell me how to live my life or wear my face?

(and maybe…)
I don’t wanna smile
don’t wanna make nice and sit pretty
And if I feel no sense of obligation
To offer you an explanation?
Or if right now, i don’t wanna smile

What is my worth,
as a woman?
Is it to look pretty first,
And ‘stand by my man’ as Tammy said
in her famous anthem?

But what if I’ve had a bad hair day
what if I’ve gained a few pounds
Does the weight of my societal value
go accordingly down?

And what if I don’t wanna smile
What if i don’t wanna make nice and sit pretty
And if i feel no sense of obligation
To offer you an explanation?

Does that make me difficult? Am i being hysterical? Or does it make me frigid, or stuck-up, or a female dog of some colorful variation?

Well (sigh), all things being equal (which they’re not),
Maybe I’ll take this catch-22 that poses as a conversation
and do everything i can
just so…

I don’t have to smile
I don’t have to make nice and sit pretty
And so i feel no sense of obligation
To offer you an explanation
why right now I don’t wanna smile

yeah right now, i don’t wanna smile (“cheese” :)

credits

from House on Swallow Street, released February 15, 2021
Ignazio Cadeddu (lead guitars)
Alex T. McMahon (baritone guitar and pedal steel)

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Kristina Jacobsen Albuquerque, New Mexico

Kristina Jacobsen’s first album, Three Roses, proves that she is a certified country singer/songwriter who couldn’t be more authentic if she had been born backstage at the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, aprogram that she celebrates in a song of the same name. She sings in a yodeling alto that can warm your heart, bite off a searing denunciation, or celebrate good times with equal fervor. ... more

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