Cervo a primavera

"Cervo a primavera" ('Deer in the spring') is a 1980 Italian song by Riccardo Cocciante (music) and Mogol (lyrics) and performed by Riccardo Cocciante.

"Cervo a primavera"
Single by Riccardo Cocciante
from the album Cervo a primavera
B-side	"Il sufflé con le banane"
Released	1980
Length	4:10
Label	RCA Italiana
Songwriters	Riccardo Cocciante Mogol
Riccardo Cocciante singles chronology
"Io canto" (1979) "Cervo a primavera" (1980) "Tu sei il mio amico carissimo" (1980)
Audio
"Cervo a primavera" on YouTube

Overview

The leading single of the 1980 eponymous album Cervo a primavera, the song marked the beginning of the long professional association of Cocciante, who was coming off a long collaboration with Marco Luberti, and Mogol, who had just interrupted a successful partnership with Lucio Battisti.^[1] The lyrics are a hymn to the springtime meant as a season of rebirth and change and represent a sort of manifesto of the two authors' artistic status at the time.^[1] The song has been described as "a full-fledged kraut-pop [...], a hymn to reincarnation in the secular sense of the term".^[2] It has often been used as opening song during Cocciante's tours.^[1]

Cocciante recorded the song in Spanish as "Yo Renacerè".^[1] Artists who covered the song include Marco Borsato and José Luis Rodríguez.^[1][3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cervo a primavera"	Cocciante, Mogol	4:10
2.	"Il sufflé con le banane"	Cocciante, Mogol	3:18

Charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Italy (Musica e dischi)[4]	4