Volare

"Volare", originally "Nel blu, dipinto di blu", is a 1958 Italian song by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci. This page has the Volare chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "Volare"

Domenico Modugno wrote the music and, with Franco Migliacci, the Italian words about a dream of flying in a sky painted blue. It won the Sanremo festival in 1958, and Modugno's record topped the American chart that year; Mitchell Parish wrote the English words.

Recordings that made it a standard

• Domenico Modugno (1958) — the original.
• Dean Martin (Capitol, 1958) — in Italian and English.