Name: Shchedryk
Duration: P00H02M07S
Description: Commonly known as the Carol of the Bells, Shchedryk is a New Year's song based on a Ukrainian folk chant about a swallow that flies into a farmhouse to tell the farmer that the spring will bring them wealth.

Shchedryk

by Robert Dietrich

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Commonly known as the Carol of the Bells, Shchedryk is a New Year's song based on a Ukrainian folk chant about a swallow that flies into a farmhouse to tell the farmer that the spring will bring them wealth.

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UKRAINIAN TRANSLITERATION
Shchedryk, shchedryk, shchedrivochka,
pryletila lastivochka,
stala sobi shchebetaty,
hospodaria vyklykaty:
"Vyidy, vyidy, hospodariu,
podyvysia na kosharu,
tam ovechky pokotylys,
a yahnychky narodylys.
V tebe tovar ves khoroshyi,
budesh maty mirku hroshei,
V tebe tovar ves khoroshyi,
budesh maty mirku hroshei.
Khoch ne hroshi, to polova.
V tebe zhinka chornobrova."
Shchedryk shchedryk, shchedrivochka,
pryletila lastivochka.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Bountiful evening, bountiful evening, a New Year's carol;
A little swallow flew into the household
and started to twitter,
to summon the master:
"Come out, come out, O master,
look at the sheep pen,
there the ewes have given birth
and the lambkins have been born
Your goods [livestock] are great,
you will have a lot of money, by selling them.
If not money, then chaff from all the grain you will harvest
you have a dark-eyebrowed beautiful wife."
Bountiful evening, bountiful evening, a New Year's carol,
A little swallow flew.

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released November 21, 2021
Music: Mykola Leontovych
Lyrics: Ukrainian folk chant
Performed by Robert Dietrich
Track Art: Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky - Winter in Ukraine, 1874

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