La Mia Famiglia

La mia famiglia

How I adore you

Though I could show it in our native tongue

My love would still come through

 

For all the joy you

 have brought to me

For all the tears of loss

 and happiness that came to be

Together we are

 However near or far

 

For now and forever more

 let's remember Mama's abundant store

Abudanza!  Sounded so sweet

I can still hear it when I eat

And Papa and his Pinot

 went well together with Paul Sebastian and Dino

 

Everyday I loved being a boy

Running throughout the streets and

 excalaiming joy

Times of prosperity

 and of days to come

when our minds would call attention

 to the things we've done

 

A girl was a girl

 but my sisters were my world

We talked about everything

 even shared the size of your wedding ring

Bells were heard by all of us

 though we pretended and made a fuss

 

We children were hard

 Many said we were headed for trouble

There for Mama and Papa

 always there on the double

Oh, how i miss the pop upside the head

 and how we were forced to listen to

them before storming off to bed

 

No time for a pet

no dog, bird or such

The feel of being in each other's company

Able to reach out and touch

 

La famiglia mia

 we stand tall

Never will we allow each other to fall

I thank you for sustaining my life

 and enabling me to have children and a wife

 

There is nothing I wouldn't do

That wouldn't ring true

To express my love to my beauties

I pray that some day

 Our children will play

as if it's not a part of their duties

 

Should Mama and Papa

 see us from above

may they rest and smile

pleased

because of their love

 

Adoro la mia famiglia