L 3

2. Általmennék én a Tiszán ladikon

Hungarian Folk Songs [Volume I], Nos. 1–10 for voice and piano (1906, rev. 1938; BB 42)

Collecting:
Szeged (Csongrád County), 1905, Zoltán Kodály
Informant:
[Margit Reiniger]
Performance:
voice
Ethnicity:
Hungarian
Remarks:
In the first edition of the work the source melody appears as collected by Bartók.

(A) MS transcription in Z. Kodály’s hand: BPF, fol. 172r

(B) MS master sheet in Z. Kodály’s hand: Kodály System, KR 03447

Source of the beginning of the words:

Recording:
MH_0929a
Collecting:
Békésgyula (Békés County), July 1906, Béla Bartók
Informant:
Panna Illés (17)
Performance:
voice
Ethnicity:
Hungarian
Remarks:
Bartók orig. used stanza 2 of this source in the second stanza of the work, which he eventually discarded.

(A) MS field book: M.I, p. 53

(B) MS master sheet, in unkown copyist’s hand, with two further variants, together with the carbon copy of (D): MMS, MH 929a

(C) MS master sheet, copied by M. Ziegler, with Bartók’s later revisions and further footnoted variants: Bartók System, B 1482c (BR 09208)

(D) MS master sheet, in Gy. Kerényi’s hand (later version): Bartók System, B 1482d (BR 09209)

Általmennék én a Tiszán ladikon, ladikon, de ladikon.
Ott lakik a, ott lakik a galambom, ott lakik a galambom.
Ott lakik a városban, a harmadik uccában;
Piros rózsa, kék nefelejts ibolya virít az ablakában.

I would cross the Tisza on a boat, on a boat.
My sweetheart lives there, my sweetheart lives there.
She lives there in the town, in the third street;
Red roses, blue forget-me-nots, and violets bloom in her window.