Dear Juha, I don't like to delete pages from the website, any poem can be set to music and especially the ones of L.H., that are always considered Jazz poetry in the sense that it "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation"

I found a version of this poem set to music and sung. You can find it in the videos.

Un ricordo commosso anche da parte mia, che a suo tempo gli avevo risposto su questa pagina. Un ricordo lontanissimo dei beceri rumori "social", dalla volgarità chiassosa di questi tempi, e vicino alla semplicità e alla sincerità che ci ostiniamo a perseguire.

Mi sono permesso, Krzysiek, di sostituire "obiecują" con "obiecuję" alla 1a persona singolare (la 3a plurale secondo me non ha senso). Però, come disse il 16 ottobre 1978 un tuo famoso connazionale che in quel momento si trovava a Roma, "se sbalio mi currigerete"... :-)

ŻYCIE SEKSUALNE PRZEDMIOTÓW
La vita sessuale degli oggetti
The Sexual Life of Objects
La vie sexuelle des objets

Boh! Chissà come ci s'era infilato dentro! Ad ogni modo lo ho rimosso....

Ha ragione Krzysiek, qui non è certo Milly ad interpretare la canzone, bensì Leoncarlo Settimelli...

@ Juha Rämö

According to a handful of site sources, the Finnish song (from Arja Saijonmaa's 1972 album Laula kanssani toveri) appears to be translated from a song originally written in French ("Cité n'entend" or something like this, see here) and set to music by Mikis Theodorakis. According to other sources, the Finnish lyrics were written by Tapio Lipponen. It has proven impossible to find any French song called "Cité n'entend" (by the way, this is uncorrect French; I have tried with "La cité n'entend pas", a French rendering of Finnish "Ei kuule kaupunki", but in vain). I have also tried to translate the title into Greek ("Η πόλη δεν ακούει"), with no result. In my opinion, the music has something to do with that of Δραπετσώνα, but this is really vague. The complete Finnish lyrics of the song are unavailable: could you please transcribe them, so that further researches can be made? By the way, with my extremely poor Finnish, I think this song could be included in the site as an original Finnish song.

Thank you for your effort, Riccardo. Over the years, I've done exactly the same you did, time and again, but without success. I wouldn't dare to submit "Ei kuule kaupunki" as an original Finnish song as long as archive records show that it's a Mikis Theodorakis song. Anyway, here are the Finnish lyrics:

EI KUULE KAUPUNKI

Ei kuule kaupunki, ei näe kaupunki
Ei kuulla ihmisääntäkään voi
Vangittiin soittoni, kahlittiin soittoni
Ei näissä kahleissa sitra soi

Ei enää surra, kreikkalaiset
Siis barrikadiin miehet, naiset
Tartu aseisiin, yhdy musiikkiin
Sarat syvät iskemme kahleisiin

Ei kuule kaupunki, ei näe kaupunki
Ei kuulla ihmisääntäkään voi
Vangittiin soittoni, kahlittiin soittoni
Ei näissä kahleissa sitra soi

Ei enää surra, kreikkalaiset
Siis barrikadiin miehet, naiset
Tartu aseisiin, yhdy musiikkiin
Sarat syvät iskemme kahleisiin

Ei enää surra, kreikkalaiset
Siis barrikadiin miehet, naiset
Tartu aseisiin, yhdy musiikkiin
Sarat syvät iskemme kahleisiin

I seize the occasion for expressing my best wishes to Mikis Theodorakis, who is currently in hospital (since 26 February) due to a heart attack. Mikis Theodorakis is 93 years old (he was born on 29 July 1925). As for the Finnish song, I thank you for transcribing it so promptly. I hoped it would light sort of a candle in my mind, but I really remain in the darkness. Sadly enough, the only person who could have helped us with his deep knowledge of anything Greek (I mean Gian Piero Testa, of course), is no longer in this world. As far as I remember, he was acquainted with Mikis Theodorakis' daughter. The alleged author of the Finnish lyrics, Tapio Lipponen, passed away in 2017. Just one question: would it be possible to conctact Arja Saijonmaa to ask her if she remembers something about this song and its French or Greek original? This site includes a number of "mysterious" songs that have been elucidated after long years of research, and I think this is another.

Bellissima!
Grazie ancora Francesco Mazzocchi per la tua traduzione.
Un testo commovente...
Saluti

Del resto, fola non è altro che il latino fabula nella sua autentica evoluzione popolare (fabula --> *faula --> fola, con normale monottongazione del dittongo). Il termine è tradizionale della Garfagnana (dove, pur essendo attualmente in provincia di Lucca, si parlano dialetti emiliani).

Faula, in sardo, bugia. Faularzu, bugiardo.