Canzoni di Natale: testi tra Ottocento e Novecento

 

Tra Ottocento e Novecento, ecco due canzoni di Natale che conoscerete di certo. Noi vi riportiamo i testi e ci prepariamo al meglio alla prossima festa, con un pò di anticipo:

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

 

James Pierpont. publ.1857

 

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

 

Ev’rywhere you go;

 

Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again

 

With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

 

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas,

 

Toys in ev’ry store,

 

But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be

 

On your own front door.

A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots

Is the wish of Barney and Ben;

Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk

 

Is the hope of Janice and Jen;

 

And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.

 

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

 

Ev’rywhere you go;

 

There’s a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well,

 

The sturdy kind that doesn’t mind the snow.

 

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas;

 

Soon the bells will start,

 

And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing

 

Right within your heart.

Nuttin’ For Christmas

 

S. Tepper, R. Bennett (c) 1955

 

I broke my bat on Johnny’s head;

Somebody snitched on me.

I hid a frog in sister’s bed;

Somebody snitched on me.

I spilled some ink on Mommy’s rug;

I made Tommy eat a bug;

Bought some gum with a penny slug;

Somebody snitched on me.

 

Oh, I’m gettin’ nuttin’ for Christmas

Mommy and Daddy are mad.

I’m getting nuttin’ for Christmas

‘Cause I ain’t been nuttin’ but bad.

 

I put a tack on teacher’s chair

somebody snitched on me.

I tied a knot in Susie’s hair

somebody snitched on me.

I did a dance on Mommy’s plants

climbed a tree and tore my pants

Filled the sugar bowl with ants

somebody snitched on me.

 

So, I’m gettin’ nuttin’ for Christmas

Mommy and Daddy are mad.

I’m gettin’ nuttin’ for Christmas

‘Cause I ain’t been nuttin’ but bad.

 

I won’t be seeing Santa Claus;

Somebody snitched on me.

He won’t come visit me because

Somebody snitched on me.

Next year I’ll be going straight;

Next year I’ll be good, just wait

I’d start now, but it’s too late;

Somebody snitched on me.

 

So you better be good whatever you do

‘Cause if you’re bad, I’m warning you,

You’ll get nuttin’ for Christmas.