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Ping Tung

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2. i accidentally stumbled on it while on Youtube looking for something else.

Reply to dweller (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 8, 2025, 12:36 AM

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I just found it to be stirring like the songs we shouted at demonstrations in the 60s.

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A stirring Italian feminist/socialist song in the early 1900s. [View all] Ping Tung Saturday OP

I give it a 10 for harmonies dweller Saturday #1

i accidentally stumbled on it while on Youtube looking for something else. Ping Tung Saturday #2

Originally, Bella Ciao was a protest song of the mondine (female workers in the rice fields of Italy's Po Valley). pat_k Saturday #3

Thank you! I looked but didn't find other versions. Ping Tung Saturday #4

Looks more like the 1940s, rather than the early 1900s. MineralMan Saturday #5

Could be early 40s. But they'd ave to be in hiding or refugees by that them. Ping Tung Saturday #7

Kicking for the swing shift. Ping Tung Saturday #6