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"'Core 'ngrato'" (; "Ungrateful Heart"), also known by the first words "'Catar, Catar'" (short and dialectal form for 'Caterina', a female first name), is a 1911 Neapolitan song by emigrant American composer Salvatore Cardillo with lyrics by Riccardo Cordiferro (real name Alessandro Sisca).Joseph Sciorra, Diasporic Musings on Veracity and Uncertainties of Core ngrato, Neapolitan Postcards: The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject, Ed. Goffredo Plastino and Joseph Sciorra. (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2016), 115-150.

It was adopted by Enrico Caruso but it is not known whether he commissioned Cardillo and Sisca to write it.Kati's Story: Recollections of Two Worlds - Page 84 Catherine Veres - 2009 "Core 'ngrato, a Neapolitan song written in 1911 for Enrico Caruso by Salvatore Cardillo (1874 - 1947)" It is the only well-known standard Neapolitan song to have been written in America.Mary J. Phillips-Matz Rosa Ponselle: American diva 1997 - Page 54 "Marziale's brother wrote the lyrics to the classic Neapolitan song Core 'ngrato with its passionate plea to Catar, Catar".

In the song, Catar's lover reproaches the girl for thoughtlessly and heartlessly rejecting his abiding love for her; he implores her not to forget that he has given her his heart and that his soul is in torment; and he says he has confessed his feelings to a priest, who advised him to let her go.

The song's title comes from the heartfelt passage, 'Core, core 'ngrato, te haie pigliato 'a vita mia! Tutt' passato, e nun nce pienze cchi!', which approximates in English to "Ungrateful heart, you have stolen my life! It's all over and you don't think about it anymore!".

The song was sung in the season three finale of 'The Sopranos' by Dominic Chianese in character as Corrado "Junior" Soprano Jr.

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