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Song Parodies -> "Are We Vedendte Roma?"
Original Song Title:
"Arriverderci, Roma"
Original Performer:
Dean Martin
Parody Song Title:
"Are We Vedendte Roma?"
Parody Written by:
John A. Barry
The Lyrics
Arriverderci, Roma:
Goodbye, grandeur of Rome—
Borders too large, barbarian-wasted,
Too late by the time everyone faced it:
Tiny Cosa-run country replaced it.
And our home?
Are we vedente* Roma?
The decay’s got its start.
U.S. glory days are not returning,
Much as nativist sons might be yearning,
Pol dimwits fiddle while empire’s burning. . .
Surging upstarts
Like the empire of Roma,
The decay starts.
Through our treasure, too fast we are burning,
Borders stretched too far, colonized churning,
No heed to Santayana,** no learning.
All empires part.
*seeing
**George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (1863-1952): “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Goodbye, grandeur of Rome—
Borders too large, barbarian-wasted,
Too late by the time everyone faced it:
Tiny Cosa-run country replaced it.
And our home?
Are we vedente* Roma?
The decay’s got its start.
U.S. glory days are not returning,
Much as nativist sons might be yearning,
Pol dimwits fiddle while empire’s burning. . .
Surging upstarts
Like the empire of Roma,
The decay starts.
Through our treasure, too fast we are burning,
Borders stretched too far, colonized churning,
No heed to Santayana,** no learning.
All empires part.
*seeing
**George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (1863-1952): “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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The Cosa Nostra or Mafia must be Nero's descendants.
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