FTX 643 - MUSIC OF MORAVIA

1. CERESNICKY - Little cherries, you've spilled onto the pathway - let whoever finds you gather them - I spent the night with a handsome young man - If he was my husband I'd never let him work - I'd be his lily and he'd be my rose - 2'01"

2. SKLENICKO TY SKLENENA - O little glass for drinking - such good wine flows from your lips - God bless the glass-maker - I feel young when I drink from you - One more sip and I'll be on my way to see my sweetheart - The music plays on - So let's drink up - 3'10"

3. PRSI, PRSI - Rain, rain - Dance instrumental - 4'10"

4. DAMA, PO CERNU - Who is the black-hairerd girl? - Whoever has a black-haired girl has peaceful thoughts - The stars are flickering, my angel - But I have a blonde and she torments my mind - Perhaps, dark girl, we'll meet in heaven - 2'36"

5. MAMKO, MOJA MAMKO - Mother, dear - my sweet apple - If I wandered the wide world I wouldn't find a sweeter one - Pick me a good man - As long as you care for me I'll be well - 2'36"

6. DANCE - Slow rhapsodic orchestral piece followed by a fast dance - 3'33"

7. PODIVALI CHLAPKI - The boys used to come to our house - because of my dark eyes - Now they're afraid of that mean housekeeper they don't come here anymore - Don't be afraid of her - just bring a bottle to the kitchen and a whole keg to the parlour - 1'47"

8. MAM KONA DOBRE KOSTI HORACH - I have a horse - whose bones carry me over the mountains - over the valleys - over the cool dew - But my poor horse broke her little leg - Bring me, O darling, a little fresh water - 1'13"

9. CERVENA RUZICKO PROC SE NE ROZVIRA - Little red rose - why don't you open up? - Because you don't come to our house, handsome young man - Although I'm as pale as can be - my mother wouldn't change me for a rosy one - Those with rosy faces drink wine but the boys prefer the pale ones - 3'24"

10. TANCUJ, TANCUJ - Dance, dance - turn about - Just don't knock over the stove - It's wonderful in winter - particularly since we don't have warm blankets - Out there in rthe fields stands the soldier in his torn coat - The dew falls on him from morning t night - 1'57"

11. MALE POTUCKY - Mountain streams - mountain pools - green meadows - Who will mow you? - The little boy - As he walks in the courtyard I hear his cry: O my God - The little boy is ploughing on the black mountain - He has ploughed up the cabbage plant - Let him plant it again - O little cabbage if I knew your secret I would entice a handsome sweetheart for myself - 1'55"

12. VETR VJEJE - The wind blows - from Bukhlava - it will bear away our Kachenka who is to be married tonight - Today a bride to-morrow a wife - Kachenka you are a rose and need no husband - You could be as free as a fish in the swift water - And you, Martin, you are a green tree and need no wife - You could chase the girls and be like a pigeon under the eaves - 3'25"

13. The Policeman's Dance - performed by the instrumental ensemble - 2'30"

14. Tomorrow is my werdding day - and I don't even have a green skirt - Go, boys, beg mother to let me buy a cloth for a skirt - Then I'll have a skirt, a green skirt, for Sundays, for Fridays and for holidays - 2'57"

15. TA ULICE JE VELICE UZKA - Mutenitska street - is very narrow - The French infantry are marching along it - Those weren't Frenchmen - they were Russians flying to the Urals like a flock of wild geese (referring to the devastating defeat of the Auustrian and Russian armies under Czar Alexander 1 and Emperor Francis II at the hands of Naspoleon at the battle of Austerlitz (a few miles from Brno) - 1'31"

16. Z DRUHE STRANY ZA MORAVU - On the banks of the Morava River - On the other side a young girl cuts the grass and binds it into sheaves - She calls her young man - Butchers, what are are you doing? - I come for meat, for some nice venison - but nobody is at home - the butcher and his wife are behind the stove - 2'34"

17. JE TO FRANCUZ S TREMI KONMI - The Frenchman is coming - with his three horses - but no-one can defend himself from him - Defend yourself, my boy, with a stick - I'll hide you under my skirt - A skirt won't help me - I must go - I'll take my stuick with me - God be with you, Marushka - My boy must go but he takes the key to my heart - There he goes to a strange country - 2'13"

18. BEZKYDE, BEZKYDE - Bezkydy Mountains - who walks there? - a dark-eyed shepherd rounding up his sheep - O shepherd who will wash your dirty shirt now you have no mother? - I don't have a mother but I do have a girl-friend and she'll wash my dirty shirt -at the battle of Austerlitz (a few miles from Brno) - 1'43"

19. HORY - The mountains are aglow - they grow dark - they grow green - Now our herdsmen round up the horses - 2'46"

20. DANCE - in 2/4 time by the instrumental ensemble - 2'31"

21. POJDME DO HOSPODY - Whose party is it? - Let's go to the tavern, old girls - Let's dance the "holan" all night long - Anka came to look at the party but the boys wouldn't dance with her - 2'22"

Notes by Henrietta Yurchenko. By permission of Supraphon-Ramco. First published by Artia 1960 and first released on CD by Folktrax 2001. Remastered & edited by Peter Kennedy and first published on Folktrax Cassettes 1976.