Franco Battiato - Oh sweet were the hours

Colamos eiquí unha colaboración boloñesa que me manda Mourelle dende Italia, onde o último disco de Battiato -xenial compositor pop, alumno de Stockhausen; un dos poucos que sabe mesturar touziño e velocidade- "Come un camello in una grondaia" está a causar furor entre o grupo comparatista.
A música pona o sempre contemporáneo Ludwig van (¿qué peza?), e a letra debe de ser do santón italiano de túnicas anchas. Recende a poesía báquica, anacreóntica -Omar Khayyám zuga nos pousos da derradeira copa de viño e Ibn Quzman esixe que o enterren cunha viña entre os párpados, pámpanos por turbante e follas de mortalla).
Como dato curioso, en breve poderei contemplar o lúdico-cómico 'live in Baghdad' de Battiato na Guerra do Golfo (a primeira), onde a nosa estrela mediática (tamén percorredora do 'Luar' nalgunhas ocasións) abrázase entusiasta a Tareq Aziz e a neniños ao tempo que pide nons á guerra. Cortesía de Panero.

Oh sweet were the hours, when in mirth's frolic throng
I led up the reeds with dance and with song;
When brisk from the fountain, and bright as the day,
my spirits o'erflow'd, and ran sparkling away!
Wine! Come bring me wine to cheer me,
Friend of my heart! Come pledge me high!
Wine! Till the dreams of youth again are near me,
Why must they leave me, tell me, why?
Retourn, ye sweet hours! Once again let me see
Your airly light forms of enchantment and glee.
Come, give an old friend, while he crowns his gay glass,
A nod as you part and a smile as you pass.
Wine! Come bring me wine... I cannot forget you, I would not resign
There's health in my pulse, and a spell in my wine!
And sunshine in autumn, tho' passing too soon
Is sweeter and dearer than sunshine in June.
Wine! Come bring me wine...