"This song, about the love between a young man and an ass whose attempt to marry one another is frustrated owing to their turning out to be consanguinous, is in a dialect of Sardinia, where de André lived for a number of years. "The Mountains of Mola" is, he notes, the ancient name for the costa smeralda (the Emerald Coast), a region of Sardinia. The translation is made from the Italian version of the text given in the liner notes of Le Nuvole (presumably made by de Andrè himself)."