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Inno Dei Sommergibilisti

The submarine song (later known as Inno dei sommergibilisti or Anthem of the submariners) is an Italian song dedicated to Italian submariners, composed during the Fascist regime to music by Mario Ruccione, a prolific composer, also author of Black Face and numerous other classics fascist songs. The text is by the playwright and journalist Guglielmo Giannini - credited with the pseudonym Zorro - who after the war will become known as the creator of the Front of Everyman.[1]

Index 1 History 2 The parodies 3 After the war

History In 1941, shortly after Italy's entry into the war (June 10, 1940), the National After-Work Opera announced a nationwide competition for patriotic music and songs: among them "The submarine song", expressly dedicated to submariners Italians, ranked second[2]. The chorus of the song went like this:

«To go / across the vast sea / laughing in the face of Mona Death and Destiny! I will strike / and bury / every enemy that meets on the path! This is how the sailor lives / in the deep heart / of the sounding sea! He doesn't care about the enemy and adversity / because he knows / he will win."

The song, released the following year, quickly became popular.

The parodies The success of the song made it the subject of a parody that inserted very different verses on the same melody, which denounced the conditions of misery during the war: It's so that Italian lives:

«This is how the Italian lives / he buys polenta and bread on the spot.

He doesn't care about laws and adversity because he knows / he'll eat![3]"

This popularity did not cease even after the fall of the regime and, after the armistice of Cassibile, the song was adopted by the Italian Resistance which circulated different parodies entitled It is so that the partisan lives, in which a young partisan ideally addressed the mother to accept the reasons of her son who decided to go into hiding and fight for freedom[4]:

«This is how the partisan lives / with hand grenades / inside his pocket! He doesn't care about the Germans and the Republicans because he knows / that he will win!»

In the postwar period After the war, the original version came back into vogue, although it was in fact representative of the typical fascist war songbook, changing the name over time to Inno dei submarine [5].

It is currently part of the official musical repertoire of the Italian Navy band.