Ragazzo da Napoli
During my recent hiking experience, my friend, Marek, brought a guitar and a songbook with the most popular songs of our youth. One of these songs - Ragazzo da Napoli - (I know, I know, it should be "di" Napoli, but gotta respect the original title) stayed with me. It constantly plays on my mind. It is a fine tune (the music is by the popular in 1970s Italian singer, Drupi ), but nothing too special. No particular reason why my mind should pick this tune over so many others. The lyrics to the song were written by Jacek Zwoźniak , a popular at that time student bard. The song tells the story of a young Polish woman who fell to the charms of "Ragazzo da Napoli," a rather shallow visitor from Italy, who impressed her with his Fiat Mirafiori, when he brought it to the sidewalk ("na sam trotuar wjechał kołami"). As the song goes, the woman allows herself to be taken advantage of, and then feels bad coming back to her Polish boy-friend who, in machismo impu...