Songs
Povedz že mi, povedz
by Bohuslav Martinů From Nové slovenské písne (New Slovak Songs) (1920) H.126
Text & Translation
Povedz že mi, povedz
Czech source:
Traditional
zelený borovec
ci môj milý príde
na vecer od oviec?
Príde on mi príde,
na vranom konícku
uviaze koníka
o nasu jedlicku.
Tá nasa jedlicka,
pekne vyrastená,
ci v lete,ci v zime,
vzdycky je zelená.
Tell me, tell
English translation ©
Anon.
green wood,
will my lover leave his sheep
and come to me tonight?
Will he come
riding his black horse,
tie it to our young fir.
Our fir is well grown,
be it summer,
be it winter,
it’s always green.
Povedz že mi, povedz
Czech source:
Traditional
Tell me, tell
English source:
Anon.
Povedz ze mi, povedz
Tell me, tell,
zelený borovec
green wood,
ci môj milý príde
will my lover leave his sheep
na vecer od oviec?
and come to me tonight?
Príde on mi príde,
Will he come
na vranom konícku
riding his black horse,
uviaze koníka
tie it to our young fir.
o nasu jedlicku.
Tá nasa jedlicka,
Our fir is well grown,
pekne vyrastená,
be it summer,
ci v lete,ci v zime,
be it winter,
vzdycky je zelená.
it’s always green.
Composer
Bohuslav Martinů
Bohuslav Jan Martinů a Czech composer of modern classical music. He lived and worked in Paris from the 1920s until the 1940s, when he fled France for the US, after being blacklisted by the Nazis for dedicating his 1939 piece, the Field Mass, to…
Poet
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