Allan Sherman - Americas A Nice Italian Name Lyrics
+America's A Nice Italian NameI live in Italy, the sky is sunny.'T'sa nice-a place. 't'sa nice-a place.And if you think the way I talk is funny,Shaddup-a you face. Shaddup-a you face.America to me is not so foreign.It's just the same. She's just the same.Of course you have-a no got Sophia Loren.Don't be ashamed, don't be ashamed.Bella, bella, atsa means-a cute.Vesta, Vesta, atsa motor scoot.And if you in a nice-a mood for some-a nice Italian food,Veal with cheese-a on it is Veal Parmigiana.The opera house in Rome is called La Scala.Is very strange. Is very strange.Ten thousand lira makes a half-a-dolla.You getta some change. You getta some change.In Venice if you do a lotta driving,Then don't-a forget, please don't forget,Before you drive, go study scuba diving.The streets is-a wet. The streets is-a wet.Vino, vino, atsa glass-a wine.You drink Yousef, I'll-a drink-a mine.Vittorio DeSica makes a picture twice-a week-a.Soup with macaroni is called-a minnestrone.I wrote to Anna Maria Alberghetti.She sings-a high. Up very high.I typed the letter on my Olivetti,I don't know why. I took a try.Dean Martin, he's a nice Italian fella.A friend of Frank's. A friend of Frank's.If you give them a piece of mozzarella,They tell you thanks. A thousand thanks.Dolce, dolce, dolce means-a sweet.Grapes is-a things-a you stamp with you feet.The Tower of Pisa, she's-a lean. A Necchi is a sewin' machine.Eat-a some lasagna, but-a don't get any on ya.A nice-a painter was Botticelli.He's very old, he's very old.He's-a paint a lady with a ***** belly,She caught a cold. She caught a cold.I know a man who wrote a song, "Volare"He gotta cash. A lotta cash.He took-a da cash and bought a new Ferrari.He made a crash. His fender smash.Gina, Gina Lollobrigida.I love her, but que sera sera.And if you see Anna Magnani with Marcello Mastroianni,Ask if you could borra some spaghetti marinara.Columbus was a nice Italian fella.He had no boats. He needed some boats.So he's fool around with Queen Isabella.She hadda three boats. She give him the boats.The queen, she said, "Columbus, pootchy-wootchy,If you should land in some new land,Please name it for Americus Vespucci,'Cause he's a nice Italian man.Nina, Pinta, and-a Saint Marie,Fourteen-a ninety-two they sailed the sea,They found the land and it was grand, and then Columbus he's proclaim:"I call this land America, a nice Italian name."(And that's-a why America's a nice Italian name.)
