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PRIMARY CLASSIFICATION Song
SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION Ritual (calendar customs)
THEME Usual
SOCIAL FUNCTION Christmas - Koleda
FORM Two-row
TEXTURE Monophonic
METER 5/8
WAY OF PERFORMANCE Solo singing
ETHNIC DATA Bulgarian
TYPE Authentic
RECORDED BY THE FOLKLORIST Petur Lyondev
DATE OF RECORD 1966
PLACE OF RECORD Brestovets
ARCHIVE ITEM - NUMBER 241.4050
RECORDING MEDIA Recording tape
INFORMANT/S Atanaska
INFORMANT - PLACE OF BIRTH Brestovets
COUNTY Pleven
FOLK MUSIC AREA Middle North Bulgaria
ARCHIVE ELABORATION Inventory, deciphered
TITLE / LYRICS Ne sum rekla

Ne sum rekla,
fchoulou ti se,
hey koledo,
moy koledo!

Koy moy napravi pou mour lozi,
pou mour lozi, briag ot douli,
toy shte vzemi malka moma,
malka moma s devet rizi,
s devet rizi koprineni,
desetata chisto zlato?
Ne nayol sa nikoy,
naelo sa malko momche,
malko momche, bash latinche,
to shta vzeme malka moma
s devet rizi koprineni
i desetata chisto zlato.
NOTES OF THE ARCHIVIST PL.99.2.9. /an.-op. RN i MGP zv.op. IDK/

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