066. Devojka se suncu protivila

Dialect: D
Theme: Epic songs, narrative songs, romances, ballads
Reference: MZA-VT-AV-4.100 (46.19–47.30)
Incipit: Devojka se suncu protivila [A girl opposed the Sun]
Locality: Szigetcsép/Čip (The recording was made in Pestszentlőrinc)
Sung by Nerandža Todorović (b. in Szigetcsép (Čip), 1904)
Year: 1973
Collector: Tihamér Vujicsics
Transcription: Tihamér Vujicsics

Comment: Narrative song, in which the same melodic model is used as in previous numbers (064, 065).

Transcription of the song is published in the Collection (nr. 159).

NOTE

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Devojka se Suncu protivila:
– Sunce jarko, lepša sam od tebe,
i od tebe i od brata tvoga,
brata tvoga, Meseca sjajnoga,
od sestrice, zvezde pre’odnice.

Sunce jarko Bogu tužbu dalo:
– Što ću, Bože, s prokletom devojkom?
A Bog Suncu tako govorio:
– Lako ćemo s prokletom devojkom.

Ti zasijaj, preplani joj lice,
a ja ću joj (h)udu sreću dati:
‘udu sreću, sve strane devere,
zlu svekrvu, a svekra gorega,
neka znade kom’ se protivila.

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