A MANIGLIA   ( gioco di carte )

 

De tutt’e jiuoche e carte c’ammaricordo

c’estastugiuoco ca’ o sette e carte piglia

me piace tant’assaie ca’ nun  mo’ scordo

si jioche a quatte e o chiammane a maniglia

 

Tu ammische e carte e miette n’terra o monte

e chille ca’ mo’ aize e carte teguarda fitte

si tiene tutte scartine puofaammonto

e cu’ na maniglia e n’asso testaie zitte

 

L’ultima carta e sotte mo’ se’ avutata

e chistu culore e carta mo’ e’ u patrone

temanca a carta a culore p’ajiucata

firme o jiuoche e miette a triunfo ca e’ a bastone

 

Quanne stugiro e carte po’ e fernute

secontane tutt e punti, e accussi e concluso

chi e’ primme a 35 punte  ha  vinciute

e chi’ po’ nun ci’arrive rimmane deluso.

  

di: Antonio De Girolamo

Due giocatori, opera di P. Cezanne

THE  MANIGLIA  CARD GAME 

 

From all the card games that I remember

there is this game that  seven is the king

I love it so much , and I will never forget it

Its played with four players its called Maniglia

 

You shuffle the cards and place the deck on the table

the person that cuts the card will stare at you

If you have all bad cards you can call a  re-shuffle

and with a seven and an ace you keep quite and play

 

The last card on the bottom of the deck is turned

and now this color of card overrules the other ones

if you play and  don’t have color cards to respond

you stop the play and use a  power card  this time is spade

 

When the proper rotation it has gone to the end

you count all your point cards and the game is over

who is first to  reach 35 point  will win

and if you don’t get there you are left in delusion

 
by: Antonio De Girolamo