La rosa senza spine non può stare
Language: Italian (Italiano)
La rosa senza spine non può stare, Tu senza innamorar non sai guardare. La rosa senza spine non può stare, Tu senz'amore non puoi star, carina. Senza le spine non può star la rosa, Tu senz'amare non puoi farti sposa.
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Authorship:
- by Raffaele Petrosemolo , free translation from the dialect.  [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "La rosa senza spine non può stare", published 1879 [voice and piano], from Canti popolari abruzzesi, no. 6. [text verified 1 time]
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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