Andrew Roussak - Alberto Da Bologna

This song is a part of an international project by Colossus Magazine Finland in collaboration with MUSEA Rec. France. The song was released in 2011 on a 4CD-Box called "Decameron - 10 Days In 100 Novellas"; the lyrics of the song are based on a novel "Alberto Da Bologna" from Decameron of Giovanni Bocaccio. Musicians: Hagen Bleeck - lead vocals Matthias Richter - guitars Andrew Roussak - keyboards, backing vocals Alan Graham - acoustic guitars Wolfgang Fetzer - bass Jochen Blum - drums Music und lyrics : Andrew Roussak Alberto Da Bologna 1 There lived not many years ago Lives maybe now as well One sir Alberto of Bologna, A wise and noble man. Still vigorous and full of life Though he was old and grey, Due to a lucky circumstance Young widow he had met by chance, And captured by her tender charms He fell in love that day. 2 So Margaret had asked him then, With wit on her young mind, What seeks an old and bearded man In pleasures of such kind? He answered, yes indeed, madam, You`re wise to ask the old. Experience is what youth may miss, Good wine is not like candy sweets, For some decades is what it needs To get as good as gold! Refrain: Velvet and lace - Colours fade as ages pass Wisdom and grace - Scenes from long forgotten times, Saved for us in poets' rhymes Wondrous tales of courteous past... There lived not many years ago Lives maybe now as well One sir Alberto of Bologna, A wise and noble man......