'Â pittima [English translation]

What can I do

if I do not have the arms to be a sailor

if in the end to the arms I do not have the hands of the mason

and I have a hard punch that looks like a nest

I have a chest off a finger

right to hide behind the suit by a thread

and go around asking for money

to whom takes them and gave them to have provided

and I ask him timidly, but among the people

and those who do not want to give reason

that seems to sneeze thunder

I send him to say that living is expensive, but cheap

I am a respected godwit

and do not go around telling

that when the victim is a beggar I give him mine.

• Artist:Fabrizio De André
• Album:Crêuza de mä (1984)