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"Bella ciao" is an Italian partisan song of World War II.
The song Bella Ciao was sung by the left anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy comprised of anarchists, communists, socialists and other anti-fascist partisans. The author of the lyrics is unknown, and the music seems to come from an earlier folk song sung by riceweeders in the Po Valley.
International versions:
The song has been recorded by various artists in many different languages including Italian, Russian, Bosnian, Kurdish, Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, English, Spanish, Finnish, Kabyle, German, Turkish, Japanese, Tagalog, Breton and Chinese.
The song is sung in a slightly different manner by Norwegian socialists. This Norwegian version describes the oppression of workers on the rice fields, and speaks of the freedom to come.
Bella Ciao is the end theme song for the Yugoslav WWII movie Most (The Bridge, The Savage Bridge).
A rewritten version of the song can be heard on Chumbawamba's acoustic album "A Singsong and a Scrap".
Another version of the song was recorded by the punk rock band Dog Faced Hermans on the album "Every Day Time Bomb."
Former Yugoslav punk rock bands KUD Idijoti and later Goblini recorded their versions of the track.
The German hip-hop group Chaoze One has recorded an electronic version of the song with opera singing on their album "Neue Kreise."
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