The real story about Pinocchio, not the doll that wanted to be a boy but a dangerous maffioso!
LQR is a folk rock band with influences of Gypsy ska, bluegrass, punk and rock'n roll. A bit of Flogging Molly meets Gogol Bordello.
LQR - Keeping the folk alive !!!
Story behind the song
The music was written on piano by Arjan Bogaerts. A few years later LQR was asked to play at a small festival in the Netherlands, called the Pinocchio Festival. To surprise the audience LQR wrote a song called...Pinocchio. They used the music Arjan wrote years before, spiced it up and added the lyrics that Karin wrote about Pinocchio being a big maffioso.
Lyrics
PINOCCHIO
In Italy there lived a man
He sang “O sole mio”
He made a toy, a little boy
and he called him: Pinocchio
Pinocchio grew up to be
a big old maffioso
A tailored suit, a girl so cute
cannone grandioso
CHORUS:
Cappuccino, macaroni
Oh Gepetto, Berlusconi
Cappuccino, macaroni
Oh Gepetto, Berlusconi
He got shot a hundred times
but bullets could not harm him
He crashed his Lamborghini
and he still looked very charming
His heavy drinking, and constant fights
His tendency of going AWOL
made old Gepetto realise
that he’d rather have a table
CHORUS:
Cappuccino, macaroni
Oh Gepetto, Berlusconi
Cappuccino, macaroni
Oh Gepetto, Berlusconi
He chopped him up and cut him down
He was a craftsman, oh so able
but the nose of Pinocchio
made the table quite unstable
CHORUS:
Cappuccino, macaroni
Oh Gepetto, Berlusconi
Cappuccino, macaroni
Oh Gepetto, Berlusconi
Cappuccino, macaroni
Oh Gepetto, Berlusconi
