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Tykhi vody, tykhi vody

Vil'shana (Sums'ka oblast)


Lyrics

Tykhi vody, tykhi vody, berehy krutiyi,
A v tyurmakh sydyat' zhul'many, khloptsi molodiyi.

– Oy nachal'nyk, ty, nachal'nyk, odpusty dodomu.
Bo vzhe skuchylas', bo vzhe zmuchyla divchyna za mnoyu.

– Odpustyv by ya dodomu – voruvaty budesh,
Ty napyysya vody kholodnoyi – pro lyubov zabudesh.

Pyv ya vodu, pyv kholodnu – ta y ne napyvavsya.
Lyubyv zhul'man divchynon'ku – ta y ne navtishavsya.

Umer zhul'man, umer zhul'man – ta y ne vmerla slava.
Tay zostavsya kin' voronyy, zbruya zolotaya.

Zbruyu moyu, zolotuyu, zhul'manam viddayte,
Konya moho, voronoho, v poli rozstrilyayte.

Divka ide, konya vede, kin' holovku klone,
Molodaya divchynon'ka zhul'mana khorone.





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Location

Birthplace of the Performers



Performers

Kanivets' Ol'ha Kuz'mivna (1941)
Kuz'menko Pasha Petrivna (1942)
Pyshchyk Hanna Mykolayivna (1958)
Repa Valentyna Ivanivna (1945)
Shchichka Kateryna Dmytrivna (1950)
Shevchenko Yakiv Mykolayovych (1900)
Verhun Kateryna Mykhaylivna (1950)




Information

Genre:

   Prison songs




Participants

Collectors:

Both Miklos
Myroslava Vertiuk
Olena Goncharenko


Descriptors:

Olga Karapata


Date of collecting:

2018-10-02



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