All the Way from Italy (Maria Lucia)
To the tune of All the Way from Italy by The Greencards, lyrics adapted by Brenda Sinclair Sutton
Em Am
I’ll take a ship across the sea
F C
to start a brand new life.
Em Am
He wrote my father asking me
F C
to come and be his second wife.
F G
I knelt down to kiss the sand;
F G
Knew I could never go back again.
C
I sailed all the way from Italy,
C
All the way from Italy.
G
A little town in the Lombardy.
F
Said goodbye to my family.
C
I’ll miss the Alps and the sweet red wine
C
And walk the ‘Po’ for the very last time.
F
Leaving to be some man’s bride
F G C
All the way from Italy.
Em Am
They pin my ticket to my coat
F C
And put me on that west-bound train
Em Am
I hold the letter that he wrote
F C
And the picture of that man
F G
With four small children in a line
F G
Looking to me to make things fine.
C
I sailed all the way from Italy,
C
All the way from Italy.
G
A little town in the Lombardy.
F
Said goodbye to my family.
C
I’ll miss the Alps and the sweet red wine
C
And walk the ‘Po’ for the very last time.
F
Leaving to be some man’s bride
F G C
All the way from Italy.
BRIDGE:
F G
Some folks don’t understand
F G
How I could up and move away
F G
It takes a certain kind of man
C G
And a woman to be this brave…
C
To sail all the way from Italy,
C
All the way from Italy.
G
A little town in the Lombardy.
F
Said goodbye to my family.
C
I’ll miss the Alps and the sweet red wine
C
And walk the ‘Po’ for the very last time.
F
Leaving to be some man’s bride
F G C
All the way from Italy.
C
I sailed all the way from Italy,
C
All the way from Italy.
G
A little town in the Lombardy.
F
Said goodbye to my family.
C
I’ll miss the Alps and the sweet red wine
C
And walk the ‘Po’ for the very last time.
F
Leaving to be some man’s bride
F G C
All the way from Italy.