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PRIMARY CLASSIFICATION Song
SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION Work outdoors
THEME Human fate
SOCIAL FUNCTION At harvest-time
FORM Three-row
TEXTURE Monophonic
METER Non-measured
WAY OF PERFORMANCE Solo singing
ETHNIC DATA Bulgarian
TYPE Authentic
RECORDED BY THE FOLKLORIST Todor Todorov
DATE OF RECORD 1964
PLACE OF RECORD Dyulino
ARCHIVE ITEM - NUMBER 217.3437
RECORDING MEDIA Recording tape
INFORMANT/S Neyka
INFORMANT - PLACE OF BIRTH Dyulino
COUNTY Varna
FOLK MUSIC AREA North-eastern Bulgaria
ARCHIVE ELABORATION Inventory, deciphered
TITLE / LYRICS Houbava Rada houbava

Houbava Rada houbava,
za kuko bila houbava,
katou ye bila zlouchestna?

Kutou sa Rada oujeni,
houbavou ni ye vidiala,
devety bolnavi zavari:
dyve zulyvi i dva dyevera,
i dve po-stari iturvi,
eturvini drebni dechitsa.
Gleda gi Rada, gleda gi,
pravi im Rada chorbitsa,
dava im Rada voditsa,
sama sa Rada razboulia,
nema koy da ia pougledni.
Rada na Nikola doumashi:
- Ia ma, Nikola, gledayti,
ia ma pri mama zuv'deti.
Vpregna Nikola kolata,
che touril Rada v koulata.
Vureli, shtou sa vureli,
Nikola douma na Rada:
- Ia stuni, Rado, da vidish
bashtinite ti kousachi
kak kousiat, Rado, i sviriat.
Rada sa nikak ni oubadi.
Nikola pak y pouvika:
- Ia stuni, Rado, da vidish
bashtinite ti vrukchii
kak jenat, Rado, i peiat.
Kato sa v selou otishli,
Nikola douma na Rada:
- Ia stani, Rado, da vidish.
Kuto si Rada otkrili,
Rada v koulata oumriala.
NOTES OF THE ARCHIVIST TT.247.2.10./43/. /an.-op. MGP zv.op. IDK/
Neyka Stoianova Ivanova 1904

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