Comment
Recorded from
Vasilij Shalugin
by Ljudmila Zhukova in 1987. This song "belonged" to Aleksej Shalugin, a relative of
Vasilij Shalugin. In the 1930s he met a girl from Xorxodon and dedicated this song to her.
Vasilij Shalugin heard this song from his relative in the 1960s.
Translation
(10-1) I walk around seeing you in front of my eyes.
(10-2) I always want to see you.
(10-3) Why are the lands where we live so far away from each other?
(10-4) Why do our rivers join so far away?
(10-5) My darling, remember me when you walk on the bank of the river Xorxodon and look at the willow trees.
(10-6) My darling, come back.
(10-7) Come here, along the flow of the river Xorxodon.
(10-8) My beloved darling girl, when will I see you?
(10-9) It would be nice to walk seeing each other.
(10-10) If I could see you for a little while, my heart would rejoice.
(10-11) I fly here and walk around a lot.
(10-12) If only I could turn into a small eagle and fly to see you in spring at the time when the snow melts.
(10-13) What happened to make you forget me? Why did it happen?
(10-14) That is how I feel that we are not going to see each other.
(10-15) News about you reached me from far away.
(10-16) My beloved girl is in front of my eyes.
(10-17) She has put on a white headscarf and has become a birch tree.
(10-18) She waves at me standing in the light of the sun.
(10-19) So we walked around seeing each other, but why did you forget me?
(10-20) Why don't you want to notice me?
(10-21) You keep me at a distance because everything will be good with you.
(10-22) It will come to your mind why you have forgotten me.
(10-23) I am waiting for you sitting and walking and I am singing.
(10-24) I can hear you standing and singing to me like the sound of a fast stream.
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