''Bevilo tutto'' ("Drink it all", "Drink it up") is an Italian
drinking song
A drinking song is a song sung while drinking Alcoholic beverage, alcohol. Most drinking songs are Folk music, folk songs or commercium songs, and may be varied from person to person and region to region, in both the lyrics and in the music.
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. A version is documented in ''I Nuovi Goliardi - Periodico mensuale di storia''
Trieste
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, in the 1880s. The song was also featured in the movie
The Hitman's Bodyguard
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with
Samuel L Jackson singing with some nuns in a bus.
Versions
Apart from the line "Se l'è bevuto tutto, E non gli ha fatto male" (with variant spellings in dialect) the rest of the text has various versions. The version as written in I Nuovi Goliardi Trieste 1881:
Con questo calcione
si carica la balestra
e chi ha un bicchier in mano
al suo compagno il presta
e mentre che ei berà
noi farem bom, ba, ba, ba
bom ba ba ba bom ba ba ba ba.
E l'ha beuto tutto
e non gì' ha fatto male
chi lo beve allo boccale
bevilo tutto, bevilo tutto
che buon prò ti possa fare.
Different versions of the song and different associated drinking games exist. In some versions when the song is sung the drink must be drunk during the first 3 lines since the fourth line is 'he has drunk it!'.
[Francesca Di Meglio]
How Italians Love Their Wine
, www.italiansrus.com.
Bevilo tutto,
Bevilo tutto,
Bevilo tutto!
Se l'e' bevuto tutto,
E non gli ha fatto male,
L'acqua gli fa male,
Il vino lo fa cantare!
Recordings
A version of Bevilo tutto was recorded by the
organetto
The modern organetto is a small diatonic button accordion used in Italian folk music. It is often used to play the saltarello
The ''saltarello'' is a musical dance originally from Italy. The first mention of it is in Add MS 29987, a late-f ...
players Andrea and Riccardo, I Ragazzi della Quadriglia on the Album of
Teramo
Teramo (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Tèreme ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo.
The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines (Gran Sasso d'Italia) ...
region folk songs Il giro del mondo.
References
Drinking songs
Italian culture
Italian songs
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