I noticed people were looking for this on my site, so I discovered a cute new song. Singer/songwriter Roby Santini “the Country Boy” is obviously writing about his parents – they play themselves in the video. And apparently the family is from Pollutri, Provincia di Chieti, Abruzzo.
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Aggiungi un Posto a Tavola: Quando l’Arca si Fermera’
When the Ark Lands
The townspeople complete the ark and are prepared to sail away when the flood comes.
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The Ballad of San Crispino
The mayor, who is named for the village’s patron saint, Crispino, has hidden from everyone to escape the pressure to donate his stock of lumber to the ark-building effort. The whole village searches for him.
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I Want You
Consolazione the traveling prostitute weds Toto, the former idiot of the village (who has apparently been cured by divine intervention and/or sex).
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