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Zabilily snihy, zabilily bili

Lyubartsi (Kyivs'ka oblast)


Lyrics

Zabilily snihy, zabilily bili na shyrokim poli,
Oy shche y dibrovochka.

Oy shche y dibrovushka,
Zabolilo tilo kozats'keye, bile, oy shche y holovushka.

Oy shche y holovushka.
Nikhto ne zaplache po kozats'komu tilu, oy ne brat, ne oy sestra.

Oy ne brat, ne sestra.
Khiba to y zaplache, oy zapechalyt'sya oy tovarysh, oy rodnoy.

Oy tovarysh rodnoy.
– Tovaryshu, brate, virnyy tovaryshu, oy skoro ya oy pomru.

Oy skoro ya y pomru.
Zroby meni, brate, virnyy tovaryshu, oy z klen-dereva y trunu.

Oy z klen-dereva y trunu.
– Oy de zh tobi, brate, virnyy tovaryshu, oy klen-dereva y uzyat'?

Oy klen-dereva y uzyat'.
Budesh ty, miy brate, virnyy tovaryshu, u sosnoviy oy lezhat'.

U sosnoviy lezhat'.
Sosnovaya trunka, hlybokaya yamka – oy to zh ridnaya mat'.





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Location

Variations

Birthplace of the Performers



Performers

Chereslenko Mariya Vasylivna (1938)
Hopkalo Nadiya Ivanivna (1945)
Hopkalo Ol'ha Ivanivna (1942)
Shevchenko Vira Zotivna (1951)
Til'na Lidiya Mykolayivna (1952)
Zhuk Mariya Andriyivna (1938)




Information

Themes and Motifs:

Brotherhood
Death


Genre:

Social and everyday life songs
   Cossak song




Participants

Collectors:

Both Miklos
Myroslava Vertiuk


Descriptors:

Natalka Khomenko


Date of collecting:

2018-09-17



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