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These Cobblestone Steets

from House on Swallow Street by Kristina Jacobsen

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lyrics

2.“These Cobblestone Streets”

Kristina Jacobsen, copyright 2019

~Place written: Santu Lussurgiu, Sardinia~
These cobblestone streets
Confound me
And I lose myself each time
I walk from A to B

Shins aching
Back slick with sweat
And learning to open my own door
With this medieval key
Triumphant victory

‘buongiorno’
e ‘dove vai’?
When you’re a full grown woman
With the language of a child

And the bureaucracy here
Drives me crazy
“non saprei” and go away
The boss is on another coffee break
cycle of appeasement with no end in sight

Buonasera
Ma lei, é Americana?
Fresca, fresca
Come mai sei venuta in Sardegna?

But there’s a map on my heart
That slowly etching
And it’ll wear its way
Into the grooves

And many years from now
I’ll look back
With the patina of nostalgia
And home is where my dog is
And that’s here

Buonasera
Ma lei, é Americana?
Fresca, fresca
Ma lei é sicura che vuole fare la residenza qua a Santu Lussurgiu?

And these cobblestone streets
Still confound me
But now I can slowly navigate from A to B

And the bureaucracy here
Still drives me crazy
But if my vicino di casa
Can navigate with grace this Bureaucratese
Then then I’ll just have to learn that language, too

Gratzias mera, Santu Lussurgiu
Gratzias mera, sa Sardigna

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from House on Swallow Street, released February 15, 2021
featuring Sebastiano Dessanay (upright bass) and Ignazio Cadeddu (guitar).

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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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