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PRIMARY CLASSIFICATION Song
SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION Ritual (calendar customs)
THEME Usual
SOCIAL FUNCTION Christmas - Koleda
FORM One-row + refrain
TEXTURE Monophonic
METER 9/8
WAY OF PERFORMANCE Solo singing
ETHNIC DATA Bulgarian
TYPE Authentic
RECORDED BY THE FOLKLORIST Petur Lyondev
DATE OF RECORD 1966
PLACE OF RECORD Laskar
ARCHIVE ITEM - NUMBER 241.4052
RECORDING MEDIA Recording tape
INFORMANT/S Ivanka
INFORMANT - PLACE OF BIRTH Laskar
COUNTY Pleven
FOLK MUSIC AREA Middle North Bulgaria
ARCHIVE ELABORATION Inventory, deciphered
TITLE / LYRICS Zavil mi se siven sokol koledo le

Zavil mi se siven soukol,(koledo le+)
(nad houbava Tsarigrada,koledo le+)

vi se dva dni,vi se tri dni,
nad houbava Tsarigrada,
dva dni,tri dni,tri nedeli,
nad houbava Tsagirgradi,
pa si vikna sam si tsara,
sam si tsara,Koustadina,
pa si vikna se na slougi:
-Ia izleste sichki slougi,
razmitayte nashirokou,
poustilayte nadigelou,
chi shti sedni sam si tsara,
sam si tsara,tsar Koustadin,
Svi sa soukol oud visokou,
pa si katsna na tsaryovo koliano,
pa podfrukna nanagore,
nad houbava Tsarigrada,
che si trepna s desno krilo,
nad houbava Tsarigrada,
pa si pousna belo kniji,
nad houbava Tsarigrada,
bialo kniji,sitno pismo,
nad houbava Tsarigrada,
pa si vikna sam si tsara:
sam si tsaria,tsar Koustadin,
pa si vikna se na slougi:
-Ia idiati ,povikayti,
povikayti pop Nikola,
pop Nikola knijichite,
do touk beshi moyto popstvo,
moyto popstvo,tvoyto tsarstvo.
NOTES OF THE ARCHIVIST PL.100.2.20. /an.-op. RN zv.op. IDK/

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