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PRIMARY CLASSIFICATION Song
SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION Work outdoors
THEME Human fate
SOCIAL FUNCTION At harvest-time
FORM Two-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 Ravna gora
ARCHIVE ITEM - NUMBER 217.3438
RECORDING MEDIA Recording tape
INFORMANT/S Giia
INFORMANT - PLACE OF BIRTH Ravna gora
COUNTY Varna
FOLK MUSIC AREA North-eastern Bulgaria
ARCHIVE ELABORATION Inventory, deciphered
TITLE / LYRICS Todore brayne Todore

Todoure, brayne Todoure!
Todour otdolou ideshe,

otdolou, ot Indjiolou, /:
na cherna konia sedeshe,:/
na cherna konia, garvana.
Sestra mou, biala Todorka
na putia puty mou chakashi,
tia na Todoura doumashi:
- Todoure, brayne Todoure,
gledah te, bate, gledah te,
ne mojah da te poznaia
dali si tourchin, bulgarin
ili si cheren tsiganin?
Todour Toudorke doumashi:
- Sestro le, biala Toudorke,
znaesh li, sestro, pomnish li
kouga tourtsite minaha,
tourtsite, kurdjaliite,
redom silata paleha
i nashtou selou izgouria,
che mi izgouria, sestro le,
kushtata s pokushtninuta,
hambaria kouhurliiata,
plevnika chardakliiata,
girania sinjirliiata.
Nishtichko ne mi domilia,
nay mi domilia boulkata,
boulkata, s mujkata rojba,
kuto ia v oguny furliha,
kutou pilentsi pishteshi,
kutou piliantsi pitrovskou,
kutou aguntse bleiashi,
kutou aguntse gergyovskou.
Zatouy sum, sestro, pochurnial,
pochurnial, oshti pogroznial!
NOTES OF THE FOLKLORIST Tb: Melodiiata prilicha na sedenkarska
NOTES OF THE ARCHIVIST TT.249.2.2./158/. /an.-op. MGP zv.op. IDK/
Tem: Muj, prejivial zagoubata na blikite si i imota si pri na-
padenie na kurdjalii
F: Soutrin
Giia Stamatova Yovcheva 1930 s. Ravna gora Varnensko Vn SIB
Iztochen Balkan

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