Tanto pe’ cantà (Just to sing) - Nino Manfredi, with English subtitles

I wanted to share this very popular Roman song adding the subtitles, I consider the first half minute a true Manifesto of the Italian philosophy. Hope you enjoy. Tanto pe’ cantà (Just to sing) is a song of Ettore Petrolini (music) and Alberto Simeoni (lyrics) of the 1932. Here is interpreted by Nino Manfredi, one of the most prominent Italian actors in the “Commedia all’italiana“ genre. The video is of the 1970, nowadays in the Italian live TV broadcasts smoking is not anymore permitted.