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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 Krasimir
ARCHIVE ITEM - NUMBER 217.3442
RECORDING MEDIA Recording tape
INFORMANT/S Krayna
INFORMANT - PLACE OF BIRTH Krasimir
COUNTY Provadia
FOLK MUSIC AREA North-eastern Bulgaria
ARCHIVE ELABORATION Inventory, deciphered
TITLE / LYRICS Choulo se'y jena orachka

Choulo se'y jina yorachka,
yorachka jina y gledachka,

mnogo houbavo gledala,
gledala i poznavala.
Stoian mur mamo doumashe:
- Iaz she ida, mamo, she ida
na vrachka da si pogledam.
Chi stana Stoian, chi trugna,
pravo pri vrachka otidi.
Vrachkata mou y gledala,
gledala i mou y kazala:
- Stouyene, holam, Stouyene,
ot zmiia shte ti idjelia,
ot zmiia, ot ousoynitsa.
Chi stana Stoian, chi trugna,
pravo si ou tiah otide.
Stoian mur male doumashe:
- Vrachkata mi e kazala,
ot zmiia shte mi y idjelia,
ot zmiia, ot ousoynitsa.
Ti idi, mamo, povikay
sichkite nashi rodnini
da iadem, mamo, da piem.
Che sa sichkite subrali.
Stoian mur male doumashe:
- Ia day mi, male, kavala,
s kaval da si pousviria,
da si tugata razprusna.
Zmiiata bila v kavalia.
Stoian s kavalia zasviri,
che gou zmiiata ouhapa.
NOTES OF THE ARCHIVIST TT.252.2.7./381/. /an.-op. MGP zv.op. IDK/
F: Soutrin

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