"Pidipi... pe pe... oue oue oue... mulla mulla mulla mulla mulla...
mulla mulla pasta frolla...noi siamo le colone della Piazza del Pieta...pidipidipidipidipeh... pidipidi pompadom "

This was what an old friend of mine and his college buddies sang in the 1930's in Torino...

Then in Tirrenia in 1956 a little red haired freckled vendor with a tray in front of his chest strapped across his back full of peanuts and candy would come down the beach in the summer afternoons singing:

" E arrivato finalmente il mentaio...bambini piangette...mamma te l'ho compra...vado via...mene va...."

You got any for us?

BA