Italy - Mediterraneamente

Every day our students watch TV and see pictures of shipwrecked people arriving on our Island Sicily. They ask questions, they ask why, and we, adults, must answer honestly.

Pupils of the 4th grades C-D-E of 3° Circolo Luigi Pirandello di Bagheria Italy, discussed poverty, hunger, war but also they discussed how important it is to welcome and protect those fleeing from fear. 

Singing this song, they want to pass to you their feelings.

Enjoy our performance and good luck to everyone

MEDITERRANEAMENTE

Music and lyrics: Giuliano Ciabatta

Take a sheet of paper, build a boat

Then you put it in the sea and sail it

And plowing the waves towards distant dreams

Think of how many children are coming,

Think of how many adventures between hope and fear!

Chour 1

Mediterraneanly look how many people

Like little fish in the current

In this roundabout

They look like dolphins 

Among the bubbles and the tides that always go up,

Further up, then down,

Further down, this way

Over there

Without borders on,

More up then down,

Further down. This way

Beyond without borders.

Take a sheet of paper, let's build a box

We set up desks and a schoolteacher

Many different faces and somewhat strange languages

Now close enough to understand them,

Think of this adventure, no more fear.

Chorus 2

Mediterraneanly look how many people

Like birds in the current

In this circle They look like seagulls

Even against the wind They already know how to fly and go up

More up then down,

Further down. Here

Over there

Without borders on,

More up then down,

Further down. Here

Over there

Mediterraneanly think how many people

Like little fish

Mediterraneanly look at those people

Like little birds

Mediterraneanly think how many people,

Mediterraneanly look at those people

Without Borders,

Without borders, 

without borders.