Diana's stuff - Sorry we're Maltese
Diana Caruana who blogs here says Yes Please we're Maltese:
Welcome to Malta
I will be your gwida
Yes we have Niagara falls
Imma ahna nghidulha l-Imsida
If you like swimming
Niehdok Birzebbugia
Jekk titqazzez do not swim
Ghax il-bajja vera mahmuga
Bid-drenagg- it is just too much
Oh yes please - we're maltese
If you like walking
Fuq il-bankina
You have to play the passju
Jekk ma tridx tirfes xi pastina
Mountain climbing fil maghtab
Jekk thobb l-avventura
Drive a car in malta roads
U nispera li tigi lura
Qawwi w'shih - ma titlifx il-qiegh
Oh yes please - we're maltese
We got the sunshine
We got the bahar
From Ewropa gibna l-istielel
So the poplu have biex jiftahar
And we have Kastilja
Biex izzommna ferhana
Hope you had nice holiday
U li terga tigi tarana
Tell your friends kemm hadt pjacir
Fir-repubblika tal-banana
Ciao u bye - sraqnik haj
Oh yes please - we're maltese
Update: these are the original lyrics of a Joe Demicoli song...lyrics at: http://kemmuna.topcities.com . This song was released on Demicoli's 'I Love U' Malta cd targeted mostly for the maltese immigrant community in Australia.
A 13 part documentary was also filmed for the new maltese tv station in australia, site at: http://iloveumalta.com ...another 13 episodes to be filmed summer 2006
posted by Robert Micallef at 4/20/2005 04:03:00 AM
As a matter of sociological interest, I'm curious what the English translation of this poem is. Care to oblige?
hello daniel, funny you should write - my next post is inspired by your blog!
Diana's poem is not written in engish nor in maltese but a funny mixture of both. it's an ironic attempt to poke fun at maltese attitudes to tourism but maybe you could send Diana a note?
anybody else wants to comment?
Came in searching for this.. this is a Joe Demicoli song naħseb.. unless he copied it from somewhere? The original link seems to be dead..
http://kemmuna.topcities.com/
this is the link to this song. just find the Malta cd abd you have all the lyrics there
What in the world is a "blog"? is this some new attempt by malta to be trendy? Sorry we're maltese is a joe demicoli song so why is Diana posting it as her own, or have i got the wrong end of the stick? I'm a maltese living in the uk (have done since 1956), please enlighten me, thanks
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