118. Lipo ti je rano uraniti

Dialect: D
Theme: Town songs, songs by well-known or unknown authors
Reference: MZA-VT-AV-4.100_13.47–15.30
Title or incipit: Lipo ti je rano uraniti [It is so beautiful to get up early in the morning]
Locality: Tököl/Tukulja
Sung by Tihomir Vujičić and mixed vocal group with tambura accompaniment
Year: 11. 4. 1973
Collector: Tihamér Vujicsics

Comment: Singing with tambura accompaniment. The first strophe is started by Tihomir Vujičić and after the mixed vocal group is joining. It is sung in recognizable two-part texture in parallel thirds. “Folklorized” version of composition by Mita Topalović (Pančevo, 1849-1912; Tomandl 1938; Đorđević 1950: 53). Transcription is published in the Collection (nr. 297).

NOTE

LYRICS

Lipo ti je rano uraniti,
lipo ti je rano uraniti.

Lipo ti je rano uraniti,
u prozorje na livadi biti,
na livadi bunar voda lije
kraj bunara zeleni se trava
na travici list belog papira
na papiru crna slova pišu
crna slova al’ su žalovita:
griota je ljubiti devojku,
poljubiti, pa je ostaviti.