Amici Miei Che Allegro Giorno

[Tonio]
My friends,
What a joyful day!
I’ll follow your banners
My friends,
What a joyful day!
I’ll follow your banners
I’ll follow your banners
I’ll follow them
I’ll follow your banners
I’ll follow your banners

[Military Chorus]
But what the hell! Have you lost your mind?

[Tonio]
I love, and in you alone my heart trusts

[Military Chorus]
Are you perhaps smitten with Maria?

[Tonio]
And to you I turn
And to you I turn, her father
I love, and I’m loved in return
I give you my faith
Well then?

[A Corporal]
If the truth doesn’t lie, we are human
And we promise you Maria as your bride

[Tonio]
What a fate! What a blessing!
Her hand,
Her hand and her heart!

Ah! It’s over
My suffering is over
I’m a husband,
A husband and a soldier,
Soldier, soldier, oh
What a fate! What a blessing!
That’s her hand and her heart!

What a fate! What a blessing!
And her hand and her heart!
Ah! My suffering is over
I’m a husband and a soldier, soldier
Ah! It’s over, it’s over, my suffering is over
I’m a husband, a husband and a soldier

[Military Chorus]
If that’s the case, he must marry her
He must marry her

[Tonio]
He must marry her