Debarre/Moreno - song, what language ?

opus20000

Pardon the ignorance, but what language is this:

crookedpinky

Looks like one of the gypsy dialects.

Jazzaferri

If I recall correctly it is Romany

crookedpinky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_language

PapsPier

Yes it is a Romani song written by Schnuckenack Reinhardt. Actually the melody is a polish tango initially (during he WWII Schnuckenack was in Poland) and he adapted the lyrics in Romani.
The title is The last Sunday and of course, it is a sad love song.
It says approximatively The last sunday when I sang for you, when I played for you, it was our last time, our last night. When we will leave this country with our wagon and horse, you won't be with us. Why would we need gold or silver, our horse and wagon is all our wealth, but you are not here..

Here is the polish version

Here is a version by Schnuckenack


Denis may give you more information, he really knows the gypsy language and he wrote some articles in the blog of Djangobooks about it. He also recorded Gypsy songs sung by Tcha Limberger for DC music school

dennis

I don't have more information to give, Pierre said it all :-)

I think during WWII Schnuckenak's family had to flee to Poland or something like that, that's where he might have heard this melody

DragonPL

Thanks for sharing that. I'm from Poland and of course I know of "Ostatnia Niedziela" (sometimes also called the "Suicide Tango"), I never heard of the Schnuckenack Reinhardt version though, so that's an interesting find.