'O surdato 'nnammurato [English translation]

You're far away from this heart,

I’m flying to you in my thought,

I don’t want and don’t hope anything more

than having you always sheltered in me!

Are you sure about this love

as sure as I am about yours?

Oh yes life, oh yes life of mine

oh yes heart of my heart,

you were the first love,

and you’ll be for me the first and last!

How many nights I didn’t see you,

I didn’t feel you in these arms,

I didn’t kiss you with this kisser,

I didn’t squeeze you tight in my bossom?

But, as I wake up from these dreams,

it makes me cry over you!

Oh yes life, oh yes life of mine

oh yes heart of my heart,

you were the first love,

and you’ll be for me the first and last!

Always write to me you are content,

I can not think none other than you alone,

just one thought consoles me,

that you think solely of me!

The most beautiful of all beauties,

isn’t by any chance more beautiful than you!

Oh yes life, oh yes life of mine

oh yes heart of my heart,

you were the first love,

and you’ll be for me the first and last!