Texts of the Neapolitan songs

Ohé… core, nun parlà!
Nun darme cunziglie, no!
Tu 'o ssaje ca può sbaglià.
No… ma, pe' ccarità,
Nun dicere: "Chest'è 'a vota…"
Sicuro 'e 'nduvinà.
Nun è cosa…
Tu chesto nun 'o vuò capì.
Nun voglio credere
E tu dice Sì.

Quanta vvote
Aggio ditto, oje core:
"Statte cujeto!"
Sì sincero,
Tu vuò suffrì
Ma chi t' 'o ffa fà?
Tu vuò bbene
Cu tutt' 'o bbene,
Chest'è overo!
Nun 'o ssaje,
Nun vence maje 'a sincerità.

No! Nun sbattere cchiù accussì!
Proprio è inutile a suffrì!
Siente a mme:
Meglio evità
O tarde sarrà!

Doce doce
Isso me risponne:
"Chest'è ammore!
E p'ammore
Io sò cuntento
Pure 'e murì".

Pe' 'stu pecché
Nun saccio c'aggi' 'a fà.
Io dico No!
Ma 'o core spera Sì.

Zitto, oje core!
Zitto, oje core!
Statte cujeto!

Oh… heart, be silent!
Don't give me advice, don't do it!
'Cause you know you can be mistaken.
No... but, for goodness' sake,
Don't tell me: "It's the time…"
Confident of your guess.
It's not love…
You don't want to understand it.
I don't want to believe it
But you convince me otherwise.

How many times
I told you, oh, heart:
"Calm down!"
You are sincere,
You want to suffer
But who makes you do it?
You can love
With all your passion,
It's true!
But you don't know it,
Your sincerity will never be mutual.

No! Don't beat so hard!
It's useless to suffer this way!
Listen to me:
It's better to avoid it
Or it will be late!

Tenderly
My heart answers to me:
"It's love!
And of love
I'm glad
Even to die."

For this reason
I don't know what to do.
I say No!
But my heart hopes for love.

Be silent, oh, heart!
Be silent, oh, heart!
Calm down!