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PRIMARY CLASSIFICATION Song
SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION Work outdoors
THEME Family relations
SOCIAL FUNCTION Digging, hoe
FORM Two-row
TEXTURE Monophonic
METER Non-measured
WAY OF PERFORMANCE Solo singing
ETHNIC DATA Bulgarian
TYPE Authentic
RECORDED BY THE FOLKLORIST Nikolay Kaoufman
DATE OF RECORD 1955
PLACE OF RECORD Sofiia
ARCHIVE ITEM - NUMBER 148.1794
RECORDING MEDIA Recording tape
INFORMANT/S Tana
INFORMANT - PLACE OF BIRTH Ochousha
COUNTY Ihtiman
FOLK MUSIC AREA Middle Western Bulgaria
ARCHIVE ELABORATION No data at this stage
TITLE / LYRICS Imala mayka imala

Imala mayka, imala
dor devet sina levena,

dor devet sina levena,
deseti Gyorgi Grozniia.
Mayka na Gyorgi doumashe:
- Sinko Gyorgi le, Gyorgi le,
mahni se, sinko, ottouka,
dvorove da mi ne grozish,
sinove da mi ne sramish!
Gyorgi na mayka doumashe:
- Male le, stara male le,
kude shte, male, da ida,
kato sum tolko munichek,
munichek i gloupavichek,
kato droumite ne znaia?
Mayka na Gyorgi doumashe:
- Otidi v gori zeleni,
zverove da te iziadat.
Subra si Gyorgi drehite,
pranite i nepranite,
che si niz dvori izliza,
lyuto si mayka proklinia:
- Male le, stara male le,
iaze niz dvori izlizam,
po mene chouma da vlezne,
sinove da ti izmori,
dvorove da ti ougrozi!
NOTES OF THE ARCHIVIST NK.205.1.8. /an.-op. RN i MGP zv.op. IDK/
Bo: NK obiaviava nomer 33 vj Bo: pesen 203.
Vseki stih se povtaria: 2.mel.reditsa pri ednoto i 1.mel. re-
ditsa v sledvashtoto izpiavane.

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