Volume 3 is the name of an album released by Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 singer/songwriter Fabrizio De André

Fabrizio De André

Fabrizio De André was an Italian singer-songwriter.Known for his sympathies towards anarchism, libertarianism, and pacifism, he also was a convicted atheist , and his songs often featured marginalized and rebellious people, prostitutes and knaves, and attacked the Catholic Church...

. It was first issued in 1968

1968 in music

-Events:*January 4 – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix is jailed by Stockholm police, after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fist fight with bassist Noel Redding.*January 6 – Gibson Guitar Corporation patents its Gibson Flying V electric guitar design....

 on Bluebell Records. The album was re-released several times by Produttori Associati, Ricordi

Casa Ricordi

Casa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...

 and BMG

BMG

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. The album contains four new tracks ("S'i' fosse foco", "Il Gorilla", "Nell'acqua della chiara fontana", "Il re fa rullare i tamburi"), the others are re-recordings of songs which appeared on previous albums and/or singles.

Track listing

All songs written by Fabrizio De André

Fabrizio De André

Fabrizio De André was an Italian singer-songwriter.Known for his sympathies towards anarchism, libertarianism, and pacifism, he also was a convicted atheist , and his songs often featured marginalized and rebellious people, prostitutes and knaves, and attacked the Catholic Church...

, except where indicated.

1. "La Canzone di Marinella" (3:20)
2. "Il Gorilla" (Georges Brassens
   Georges Brassens
   Georges Brassens , 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981), was a French singer-songwriter and poet.Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier...
   
   , translation by De André) (2:59)
3. "La Ballata dell'Eroe" (2:35)
4. "S'i Fossi Foco" (Cecco Angiolieri
   Cecco Angiolieri
   - Biography :Cecco Angiolieri was born in Siena in 1260, son of Angioliero, who was himself the son of Angioliero Solafìca who was for several years a banker to Pope Gregory IX; his mother was Lisa de' Salimbeni, from a powerful Senese family....
   
   , musical arrangement by De André) (1:14)
5. "Amore che Vieni, Amore che Vai" (2:50)
6. "La Guerra di Piero" (3:04)
7. "Il Testamento" (Georges Brassens
   Georges Brassens
   Georges Brassens , 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981), was a French singer-songwriter and poet.Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier...
   
   , translation by De André)(3:47)
8. "Nell'Acqua della Chiara Fontana" (Georges Brassens
   Georges Brassens
   Georges Brassens , 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981), was a French singer-songwriter and poet.Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier...
   
   , translation by De André) (2:20)
9. "La Ballata del Miché" (2:55)
10. "Il Re Fa Rullare i Tamburi" (traditional, arrangement and translation by De André) (1:55)

The songs

• "Il Gorilla" is a translated version of the Georges Brassens
  Georges Brassens
  Georges Brassens , 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981), was a French singer-songwriter and poet.Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier...
  
  ' song "Le Gorille". It is about a gorilla
  Gorilla
  Gorillas are the largest extant species of primates. They are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies...
  
   which, escaped from its cage, loses his virginity by raping a Judge instead of an old woman.
• "S'i Fossi Foco" is based on the poem of the same name by Italian
  Italy
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   poet Cecco Angiolieri
  Cecco Angiolieri
  - Biography :Cecco Angiolieri was born in Siena in 1260, son of Angioliero, who was himself the son of Angioliero Solafìca who was for several years a banker to Pope Gregory IX; his mother was Lisa de' Salimbeni, from a powerful Senese family....
  
  .
• "Nell'Acqua della Chiara Fontana" is a translated version of the Georges Brassens
  Georges Brassens
  Georges Brassens , 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981), was a French singer-songwriter and poet.Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier...
  
  ' song "Dans l'Eau de la Claire Fontaine".
• "Il Re Fa Rullare i Tamburi" is a translated version of a French
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
  traditional song of the 14th century.