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PRIMARY CLASSIFICATION Song
SECONDARY CLASSIFICATION Entertainment (pleasure, fun)
THEME Love
SOCIAL FUNCTION Line-dance - horo
FORM Two-row + refrain
TEXTURE Two voices
METER 2/4
WAY OF PERFORMANCE Couple (no response 1,1)
ETHNIC DATA Bulgarian
TYPE Authentic
RECORDED BY THE FOLKLORIST Nikolay Kaoufman
DATE OF RECORD 1955
PLACE OF RECORD Iskrets
ARCHIVE ITEM - NUMBER 114.1133
RECORDING MEDIA Recording tape
INFORMANT/S Ekaterina
INFORMANT - PLACE OF BIRTH Iskrets
COUNTY Sofia
FOLK MUSIC AREA Middle Western Bulgaria
ARCHIVE ELABORATION Inventory
TITLE / LYRICS Gyurgelena kon vodila

Gyulgelena kony vode'
(lele Leno Gyurgeleno+)

kon vodila,kon shetala,
nad voda se nadvesila,
pa sama se sborouvala:
"Shto sam lepa,ta chervena,
da sum malko po-visoka
ergeni bih zalibila,
jeneni bih razjenila,
popove bih razpopila."
NOTES OF THE ARCHIVIST NK.153.1.37. /an.-op. RN i MGP zv.op. IDK/
Bo: NK obiaviava pesenta s nomer 19 vj.pesen 141

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