Sherman Allan - Americas A Nice Italian Name lyrics

I live in Italy, the sky is sunny This is a nice place, this is a nice place And if you think the way I talk is funny, Shut up you face Shut up you face America to me is not so foreign It's just the same She's just the same Of course you have no got Sophia Loren Don't be ashamed, don't be ashamed Bella, bella, atsa means cute Vespa, Vespa, atsa motor scoot And if you in a nice mood for some nice Italian food, Veal with cheese on it is veal parmigiana The opera house in Rome is called La Scala Is very strange Is very strange Ten thousand lira makes a half doller You get some change You get some change In Venice if you do a lotta driving, Then don't forget, please don't forget, Before you drive, go study scuba diving The streets is wet The streets is wet Vino, vino, atsa gla** wine You drink yourself, I'll drink mine Vittorio DeSica makes a picture twice a week Soup with macaroni is called minnestrone I wrote to Anna Maria Alberghetti She sings high up very high I typed the letter on my Olivetti, I don't know why I took a try Dean Martin, he's a nice Italian fella A friend of Frank's a friend of Frank's If you give them a piece of mozzarella, They tell you thanks a thousand thanks Dolce, dolce, dolce means sweet Grapes is things you stamp with you feet The Tower of Pisa, she's lean a Necchi is a sewin' machine Eat some lasagna, but don't get any on you A nice painter was Botticelli He's very old, he's very old He's paint a lady with a naked belly, She caught a cold She caught a cold I know a man who wrote a song, "Volare" He gotta cash a lotta cash He took da cash and bought a new Ferrari He made a crash his fender smash Gina, Gina Lollobrigida I love her, but que sera sera And if you see Anna Magnani with Marcello Mastroianni, Ask if you could borrow some spaghetti marinara Columbus was a nice Italian fella He had no boats he needed some boats So he's fool around with Queen Isabella She had three boats she give him the boats The queen, she said, "Columbus, pootchy-wootchy, If you should land in some new land, Please name it for Americus Vespucci, 'Cause he's a nice Italian man Nina, Pinta, and Saint Marie, Fourteen ninety-two they sailed the sea, They found the land and it was grand, and then Columbus he's proclaim "I call this land America, a nice Italian name" (And that's why America's a nice Italian name)