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Yak harnenʹko sontse skhodytʹ

Zalav'ya (Rivnens'ka oblast)


Lyrics

Yak harnen'ko sontse skhodyt' –
V nashoy kameri tyemno,
/ Den' i nochchyu vartovyye
Sterezhut' moye vikno. / 2

Sterezhyte, berezhyte,
A ya ’dsyuda ne vtechu,
/ Oy yak khochet'sya na volyu,
Ya kaydanov ne porvu. / 2

Oy vy, tyurmy zalyeznyye,
Vi, stalevy storozha,
/ Ne mozhu ya vas porvaty
Bez dolota, bez nozha. / 2

Odnu bramu prolomali,
A v druhuyu uvoyshly,
/ Vzyaly mene pyd ruchen'ky –
Da y na volyu vyvely. / 2

Oy yak vyyshov ya na volyu,
Yak harnen'ko vse tsvite,
/ Svoyi lita molodyye
Zmarnuvav ya y u tyurme. / 2

Ukrayino, Ukrayino,
Shcho z toboyu diyet'sya?
/ Sydyt' voroh v tvoyoy khati,
Da shche z tebe smiyet'sya. / 2

Khay smiyet'sya, raduyet'sya,
Skoro yoho ne bude,
/ Bo vzhe zh nasha y Ukrayina
Samostiynoyu vzhe ye. / 2





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Birthplace of the Performers



Performers

Krepetsʹ Ivan Denysovych (1955)
Krepetsʹ Ustyma Andriyivna (1931)
Kulakevych Fedora Fedorivna (1947)
Torhonsʹka Mariya Hnativna (1951)
Torhonsʹka Nina Ivanivna (1964)
Torhonsʹka Rayisa Dmytrivna (1947)
Zhukovsʹka Antonina Ovdiyivna (1942)




Information

Genre:

Social and everyday life songs
   Prison songs




Participants

Collectors:

Alla Kovalʹchuk
Both Miklos
Myroslava Vertiuk
Yuriy Kovalʹchuk


Descriptors:

Susanna Karpenko


Date of collecting:

2018-05-31



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