La donna è mobile [English translation]

Women are changeable1

Like a feather in the wind,

Their speech2 changes, as do their minds.3

Always an endearing,

elegant face,

whether in tears or laughter: It's deceitful

[Refrain:]

Women are changeable

Like a feather in the wind

Their speech changes...as do their minds!

As do their minds!

As do their minds!

He's always miserable,

the one who puts his trust in them

who confides in them his unwary heart!

Yet he would never feel

completely happy

He who from this breast, does not imbibe love.

[Refrain]

1. "la donna" is being used as a general term for all women, not for a specific woman, so I decided to translate it in the plural, as that is how the general of a noun is often expressed in English.2. Literally "accent."3. Literally "thought."

• Artist:Giuseppe Verdi
• Album:Rigoletto (1851)