Lyrics to “Madonna Mia,” written by Al Capone while he was at Alcatraz:

In a quaint Italian garden

While the stars were all aglow

Once I heard a lover singing

To the one that he loved so

In that quaint Italian garden

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Neath the starry sky above

Every night he’d serenade her

With his tender song of love

Madonna mia

You’re the bloom of the roses

You’re the charm that reposes

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In the heart of a song

Madonna mia

With your true love to guide me

Let whatever betide me

I will never go wrong

There’s only one moon above

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One golden sun

There’s only one that I love

You are the one

Madonna mia

This I vow here before you

Till the end I’ll adore you

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Madonna mia

Once again I see that garden

Many years have hurried by

I can see that sweet Madonna

There’s a teardrop in her eye

For her soldier has departed

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Left his loved one with a sigh

She said “I will wait forever”

As he sang this last goodbye.

Madonna mia …


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