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Torna a Sorrento (Come back to Sorrento)
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September 07, 2007 10:47 AM PDT

This song was inspired by a man. In September 1902 the president Giuseppe Zanardelli went to an official visit to Sorrento. He took up lodgings in to hotel in which worked Giambattista De Curtis as a decorator. In those days Sorrento town was a failure, The roads were terrible and the local services did not work and houses were not done well. To get president Zanardelli to do something as soon as possible he wrote him this song. . The words of this song invited the president to return to Sorrento to look at all its beauty. From then on this Neapolitan song is one of its most famous in the world.
The song was written in a very
short time and yet it will stay
with us forever...
as will the Pavarotti renditions.
God Bless Luciano.

Sunlight dances on the sea
Tender thoughts occur to me
I have often seen your eyes
In the nighttime when I dream

When I pass a garden fair
And the scent is in the air
In my mind a dream awakes
And my heart begins to break

But you said goodbye to me
Now all I can do is grieve
Can it be that you forgot?
Darling forget me not!

Please don't say farewell
And leave this heart that's broken
Come back to Sorrento
So I can mend