L 73

2. Pod lipko, nad lipko

Four Slovak Folk Songs for voice and piano (1907; BB 46)

Collecting:
Gerlice/Grlica (Gömör/Gemerská County), August 1906, Béla Bartók
Informant:
Zuzana Drábová (17)
Performance:
voice
Ethnicity:
Slovakian

Pod lipko, nad lipko, edná mala dve,
Šervenie ružičky, edno dala mne.
Ešte edno mala dať, mala dať, posela sa vymluvať, vymluvať,
Že nemá, že nedá, že by bulo zle.

Under the linden tree, above the linden tree, she had two red roses,
She gave one of them to me.
She would have given me the other one, but then she would have none,
She won’t give me more because she would get in trouble.