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PRIMARY CLASSIFICATION Song
SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION Work outdoors
THEME Mythology
SOCIAL FUNCTION At harvest-time
FORM Two-row
TEXTURE Monophonic
METER 2/4
WAY OF PERFORMANCE Solo singing
ETHNIC DATA Bulgarian
TYPE Authentic
RECORDED BY THE FOLKLORIST Nikolay Kaoufman
DATE OF RECORD 1955
PLACE OF RECORD Gorni Okol
ARCHIVE ITEM - NUMBER 142.1559
RECORDING MEDIA Recording tape
INFORMANT/S Edna jena
INFORMANT - PLACE OF BIRTH Gorni Okol
COUNTY Samokov
FOLK MUSIC AREA Middle Western Bulgaria
ARCHIVE ELABORATION No data at this stage
TITLE / LYRICS Jenala e moma na goliama niva
/:
Jenale e mome na goleme niva :/

na goleme nive na shiroka posta.
Yozdol ide zmeyo, mome mou se mole:
- Pousni mene, zmeyo, doma da si oyda,
doma da si oyda, mayka da si vida,
devet godin stana, doma ne sum bila,
moyta stara mayka cherna kurpa nose,
cherna kurpa nose, men me jiva jali!
Kopala e moma na golema niva,
na golema niva, na shiroka posta.
Yozdol ide zmeyo, moma mou se moli:
- Pousni mene, zmeyo, doma da si hoda,
/doma da si hoda/, libe da si vida,
devet godin stana libe ne sum vishla!
NOTES OF THE ARCHIVIST NK.205.1.10. /an.-op. RN i MGP zv.op. IDK/
s. Gorni Okol Samokovsko Sf SrZB
Bo: Niama danni za jenata-informator nito v tetradkata , nito
na lentata.

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