Antonio

[Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I bring children into this world yet none really care for the father [Music] like that such a big family happy they invite me No five daughters two sons many grandchildren make a man proud but after their mother died I no more control them lawyers say to sell mother's property in Italy we all got to sign paper children oppose me I want to sell they don't want to sell but I say I'm still the father in this family I am the controller I know what I'm doing everything I done is well done or criticize me criticize himself but they not listen to father anymore young ones go their own way I tell them let me sell the property this is my business my affair [Music] now they criticize me for my abstinence hmm give them too much they think everything come from nothing [Music] [Music] when I was their tender age I not play at games not time for games not time even for school at five years of age I was a man in Italy I starved for a crust of bread mother and father too poor so they send me far outside town to work on a farm I work for boss in the farm he hit me and I ran home but they bring me back to the farm I stay there all my you would work with the sheep sleep out in the hills with Sheena after they put me with the cows to turn the land but that land that's crazy how can a man farm rock so I come here to this country with nothing no education nothing except my young strength here they work us like slave but it's okay at the end of the week you got something in your hand you feel good and you forget [Music] two rooms in a strange house I am like an old shoe a red it's a tragic it's a tragic [Music] [Applause] they don't want to dis accommodate themselves to come and see me they'd rather I go see them well a visit from them kind of a bother to me anyway maybe my son for me today maybe I don't go even if he invites me for Sunday [Music] [Music] just a little whiskey good for the stamina [Music] I don't like to read foolish things anymore a man needs just two books Divine Comedy by Dante and the Bible I love the Bible I rely on it [Music] little children yet a little while I am with you where I go you cannot come yes my children a little while I am with you a little while [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I can wait inside all day a man must talk to his friends [Music] [Applause] if I am with strangers well and just with strangers the finally with daughters I be dependent not independent I've got to carry my own life the way I find it [Music] [Music] [Music] everybody got push me I'm free if I'm alone I hurt snobbery most of the time I'm alone with God my Jesus I remember first time I really alone with you that was in the house I built for Elisabetta doctor say wife's sick needs fresh air needs quite so I built with my hands house in the country big house maybe too big after she passed away children grown up gone to the city I stay there I stayed there three long years try to sell but nobody wants big house in the country a painful worry [Music] then I'm alone in the house first time alone with God [Music] sometime up there I work I go see neighbors I passed my time in winter I keep warm in the basement I build things I read my Bible often I fall asleep over my Bible in summer I turned the land there was fun of it to keep the land clean to plant doing the best I can I make wine up there too I buy a ton of grapes every year lots of wine it is good I stay till I get the price or the house then I free to leave go back to the city be with the children again get family together again [Music] those three years my father I'm glad I found you there and now I never be alone anymore that's when you first talk to me in my dreams I want children to know you I tell them about you but they will not listen they say I talk too much about my Bible and my god about my dreams when you talk to me since I was always a stranger to my children [Music] [Applause] [Music] my Elisabetta you know I work hard for family maybe too hard after new sale I must spend more time with children or they'd be strangers but I don't listen when you with us family stay together now I know when we raise family together that is the best time of my life [Music] [Music] [Music] my good friend Mateus asana every day I come we talk we work many jobs together we make wine such a good wine such a good years I tell my old friend I say we all got to die Jesus Christ died and we all got to die it is God's will and when he wans you it takes you just the same [Music] - all I say the same the women don't like it my children tell me not to say such a thing to a sick person but I think isn't it better to be ready [Music] I just can see why people are afraid of dying I tell them god knows what is in us what we are worth God knows us before we are created in our mother's womb the destiny was there [Music] to be dead this nothing to be dead is just a little bit of a dream no more no less [Music] we all got the screechers in his hands [Music] [Music] I like birds [Music] two basic [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] for sure my son will call tomorrow [Music] maybe I take them a bottle for dinner next Sunday salute [Music] I still make good wine [Music] I read Divine Comedy in English now after I lockup hard words try to remember [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that's not fair [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hmm good stuff [Music] my one meal a day is my invention my creation [Music] I go the old way children go the new oh well maybe next Sunday be different we don't talk about fight [Music] I'll tell you on the phone I knew my boy would call me angry words must never separate a man from his son iris a good family [Music] so it is not this Sunday there are other Sandy's I have lots of things to do anyway lots of things [Music] I go see matterr again tomorrow talk about the new why you like that [Music] [Applause] [Music]