OH MY BELOVED FATHER

(based on "O Mio Babbino Caro" 1918 by Puccini & Forzano) 
(Giacamo Puccini (m) Giovacchio Forzano (orig l) Archie Pitt (Eng l added 1949) 

as recorded by Gracie Fields
with The Wardour Singers
& Robert Farnon & his Concert Orchestra
1949


OH my beloved father,
I love him, I love him!
I'll go to Porta Rossa
To buy our wedding ring.

Oh yes, I really love him
And if you still say no,
I'll go to Ponte Vecchio
And throw myself below!

My love for which I suffer,
At last I want to die!
Father, I pray, I pray!
Father, I pray, I pray!




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - February 2018)