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Dago Red

from Songs of Mesabi by Greg Tiburzi

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Perhaps a story like this played out at a mining location settled by Italians. A day laborer and his family, their garden and tarpaper shack, a new baby boy and homemade wine.

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Dago Red

America, she is no paradise to me
I cried and cried for my home in sunny Italy
I work like a dog all week and then I hit the bed
Sunday come we pass around a jug of Dago Red

(chorus)
Dago Red, Dago Red, Dago Red, Dago Red
Dago Red, Dago Red, Dago Red, Dago Red

My house she is what you call a tarpaper shack
A big garden in the front, an outie in the back
My wife she makes the pasta and the sugo and the bread
We buy and stomp the grapes to make our own Dago Red

(chorus)

It's vino when you baptize, and when you make the vow
Salute with the vino when when we kill the pig and cow
My wife she make a bambino, another curly head
The doctor want no money but he take a da Dago Red

(chorus)

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from Songs of Mesabi, released June 14, 2022

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Greg Tiburzi Duluth, Minnesota

Inspired by pop radio, the American songbook, folk and world music, and rock from Chuck Berry on, Greg Tiburzi blends guitar and harmonica to back his compositions of loss, redemption, and fragility of the human condition. He reveres the healing quality of music, the ability to lift and better connect us to each other, our surroundings, and ourselves. ... more

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