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O Sleep My Little Kozak

Bohemian Ražnjići

• 1. are a kind of Slavic skewers, beloved by Triestine people.
• 2. schedina {little sheet} is the card used to bet in the Italian game of (and the game itself is usually called schedina), similar to football pools.
  The player bets his money trying to guess the results of football matches, usually from the Italian premier division (Serie A).
  For each match, the player must choose between '1' (win by the home team), '2' (win by the away team), and 'X' (draw).
  In the song, the Totocalcio results become the exam results: in Italian schools (especially secondary schools), marks are from 1 (or 2) to 10 (the maximum, possibly 'cum laude'), with 1/2 point increments; sufficient marks are those no less than 6.
  Usually, a mark of 1 or 2 is only given to students refusing to take an exam, or not answering anything during the exam.
  'X' is not mark, and in the song it probably indicates the exams that the student skipped by playing truant.
• 3. is a district in Trieste.
  In Italian schools, all marks received by (underage) students, as well as every disciplinary action or absence from school or school report, must be acknowledged by a parent or legal ward of the student by signing a written note (usually tailored to the specific circumstance, not standardized) which the student must give back to the school.
• 4. is a US shoe manufacturer, famous for their foam clogs.
  is a videogame console.
• 5. It’s often said that was not good at math, despite being a genius in physics. In fact, he was very skilled at math, while he didn’t fancy the educational system at all, and he was also rejected at the admission tests to enter the University of Zurich, despite his excellent results in technical subjects.
• 6. Gildo is a Triestine drunk homeless who insults people.
  See .
• 7. is a very famous US comic book writer; he was the lead editor at Marvel Comics.
  Among the many characters he created, are the .
  In the song, '4' refers to the (bad) marks that he got.
• 8. is a Italian singer-songwriter.
  His stage name comes from his early detractors who called him 'a zero'.
  His fans are called zerofolli {zero-madmen} or sorcini {little rats}.
  {the best years of our life} is one of his most famous songs.
  Another song by him is {the sky}.
  Renato Zero is from Rome; that’s why these lines are in Italian mixed with Rome dialect.
• 9. is an Italian writer from the 1300s, who is studied in all Italian high schools.
  {hodgepodge} is a collection of writings by the 1800s Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. This too is (almost) always studied in high schools.
• 10. , who lived in the 1500s-1600s, is the creator of modern science.
  He’s studied in Italian schools also because of the literary value of his works about popularization of science.
  was a hero in Greek mythology.
  Perseus is featured in the childish wordplay 'Sei Perseo? Trentaseo' {Are you Perseus? Thirty-seus}, because of its assonance with 'sei per sei, trentasei' (6×6=36) {six by six - thirty-six}.
  Romeo might refer to the main character of Shakespeare’s tragedy , even though non-Italian writers - including Shakespeare - are studied little in Italian schools.
  is a character from the Bible. He would never be featured in a school test. Most probably, he’s featured in the song to rhyme with the other names, and because zebedeo is also a slang word for 'testicle'.
  Anyway, the names make up a list which is completely extraneous to the shallow culture of the student in this song.
• 11. giustificazione (or giustifica, or nota di giustificazione) is a written note by a parent or legal ward that a student has to present to the school when they come back to school after one or more days off, to check that that absence was justified (by illness, extra-scholastic commitments, etc.).
• 12. When parents go to school (every few months) to talk to the teachers about how their children are doing, a typical description of the student is 'suo figlio è intelligente, ma non si applica' {your son is smart, but he doesn’t apply himself}.
• 13. is a Catalan painter from the 1900s.
  , in the province of Udine.
• 14. is a former Italian rower; he then became a TV sport commentator, and he’s famous for his frenzy while commenting (besides being famous for his size).
  See for instance .
• 15. is an Italian art critic, who is mostly known for his TV appearances in which he yells and swears to anybody - and he keeps perpetuating this persona of his.
  His most famous curse is 'Capra! Capra! Capra! Capra!… Sei una capra ignorante!' {goat! goat! goat! goat!… you’re an ignorant goat!}.
  See for example .
• 16. People gambling on lottery games like Bingo usually bet on numbers that have some significance to them, like the numbers in a special date, or numbers that were 'revealed' to them in a dream.
• 17. is an Italian singer-songwriter.
  Among his most famous songs is @1:42.

Little dokney Noonoo

• 1. This song is about : some people find it hard to read or write words correctly. They swap letters, skip some of them, mix up those that have a similar shape, like 'p' and 'b'; or, they can’t read or write quickly. People with this problem have a normal intelligence, and want to learn things like everybody else.

You're a Hunk

My Favourite Marija

The Boats Are On Their Way

Ilenia

Lost happiness

I think you're strikingly charming

• 1. lit. 'I find a crazy charm (in) you'
• 2. a pun on 'fou'(crazy) and 'flou'(blurry). The feminine of 'fou'(foo) would be 'folle'(foll), but 'floue'(floo) sounds just like the masculine 'flou'

The Man I Love

Gammapolis

I Will find you (Cha la la la)