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Song title Little Girl Prays to God
Composer Folk Song
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A little girl prays to God: Oh God, give me eyes like this of a dove. Give me wings like this of a falcon, to fly over Danube river and to find a boy fitting to me...

Country

Bulgaria

Sung by Aleksandrina Semerdzhieva-Probst
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Berlin, Germany, 2012
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Song title Tudora was sleeping
Composer Folk Song
About

Tudora was sleeping under an olive tree. The wind started to blow and broke a branch, which woke up Tudora. She furious asked the wind: why did you blow right now? I dreamt sweet about my first love...

Country

Bulgaria

Sung by Aleksandrina Semerdzhieva-Probst
Recorded by Jacob Kirkegaard
Place & year of recording Berlin, Germany, 2012
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Song title Male le, Stara Majchice (Mother, my old Mother)
Composer Folk Song. Dialect from Rodopi mauntain
About

This is a traditional engagement song. "Mother, my old mother, a young maid has invited me…." The young man tells his mother, that a young maid invited him to her house, to give him a flower from her little garden.

Country

Bulgaria

Sung & recorded by Petko Chernev
Place & year of recording Bulgaria, 2012
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Song title Rosni mi Rosni
Composer Folk Song. Dialect from Rodopi mauntain
About

Rosni mi rosni, Rositse / Dew to me, dew/Rositse (Rositsa = dew & female name)

Country

Bulgaria

Sung & recorded by Petko Chernev
Place & year of recording Bulgaria, 2012
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