La ballata dell'ex - Sergio Endrigo

Andava per i boschi con due mitra e tre bombe a mano

La notte solo il vento gli faceva compagnia

Laggi?

nella vallata?

gi?

pronta l’imboscata

Nell’alba senza sole eccoci qua

Qualcuno il conto oggi pagher?

Andava per i boschi con due mitra e tre bombe a mano

Il mondo?

un mondo cane ma stavolta cambier?

Tra poco finiranno i giorni neri di paura

Un mondo tutto nuovo sorger?

Per tutti l’uguaglianza e la libert?

In soli cinque anni questa guerra?

gi?

finita

?

libera l’Italia l’oppressore non c'?

pi?

Si canta per i campi dove il grano ride al sole

La gente?

ritornata gi?

in citt?

Ci son nell’aria grandi novit?

E scese dai suoi monti per i boschi fino al piano

Passava tra la gente che applaudiva gli alleati

Andava a consegnare mitra barba e bombe a mano

Ormai l’artiglieria non serve pi?

Un mondo tutto nuovo sorger?

Per tutti l’uguaglianza e la libert?

E torna al suo paese che?

rimasto sempre quello

Con qualche casa in meno ed un campanile in pi?

C'?

il vecchio maresciallo che lo vuole interrogare

Cos?

per niente per formalit?

Mi chiamano Danilo e sono qua

E vogliono sapere perch?

come quando e dove

Soltanto per vedere se ha diritto alla pensione

Gli chiedono per caso come?

andata quella sera

Che son partiti il conte e il podest?

E chi li ha fatto fuori non si sa

E chi li ha fatto fuori non si sa

Se il tempo?

galantuomo io son figlio di nessuno

Vent’anni son passati e il nemico?

sempre l?

Ma i tuoi compagni ormai non ci son pi?

Son tutti al ministero o all’aldil?

Ci fosse un cane a ricordare che

Andavi per i boschi con due mitra e tre bombe a mano…

Un mondo tutto nuovo sorger?

Per tutti l’uguaglianza e la libert?

He went into the woods with two machine guns and three hand grenades

At night only the wind kept him company

Over there?

in the valley?

already

the ambush is ready

In the sunless dawn, here we are

Will anyone pay the bill today?

He went into the woods with two machine guns and three hand grenades

The world?

a dog world but this time it will change?

Soon the black days of fear will end

A whole new world will arise?

For all equality and freedom?

In just five years this war?

already

over

?

free Italy, isn't the oppressor there?

pi?

It is sung in the fields where the wheat laughs in the sun

People?

returned already?

in the city?

Are there great news in the air?

And he went down from his mountains through the woods to the plain

He passed among the people cheering the allies

He went to deliver beard machine guns and hand grenades

Is artillery no longer needed now?

A whole new world will arise?

For all equality and freedom?

And back to his country what?

always remained that

With a few less houses and an extra bell tower?

There?

the old marshal who wants to question him

What?

not at all for formality?

They call me Danilo and I'm here

And they want to know why?

like when and where

Just to see if he's entitled to a pension

They ask him by chance how?

gone that evening

What are the count and the podest gone?

And who killed them is unknown

And who killed them is unknown

If the time?

gentleman I am nobody's son

Twenty years have passed and the enemy?

always there

But are your companions no longer there?

Are they all in the ministry or in the afterlife?

There was a dog to remember that

You went through the woods with two machine guns and three hand grenades ...

A whole new world will arise?

For all equality and freedom?