Traiasca ethno! (original) (raw)

7:48 pm
[sorelka]

Hello! I am very thankful to those, who created the community.... As a lover of Romanian and Eastern European folklore I was happy to discover it here. I am originally Romanian myself, but my knowledge of the language suffered because of many years spent abroad..... I am studying history and art in Russia. However songs from Romania do remind me of my roots.... Although I mostly listen to compositions that come from Moldova, which are easely found in Moscow.

2:24 pm
[puabi]

Hello, is this group still alive? Well I just wanted to say I am glad somebody started a thing like this, and I wish it were active and full of members. I found it while searching for George Bacovia under "interests"! :) My dad always quotes his poems and I love what I understand of them. So deliciously morbid.

The only experience I really have of Romanian folk music is from the band Taraful Haiducilor. Maybe I will post some of the transcriptions of their songs when I can. I see already that Sirba lui Cacurica is posted here, but I am wondering if it is a different version?

My Romanian is halting and amateurish, but I can basically understand the language, with some vocab lapses. My family is from Zalau in Transylvania, but I am now living in California. So... here's hoping that there will be some more posts here!

4:57 pm
[hi_dook]

Here is some folk! GOVIADINA/ SIRBA LUI CACIURICA

Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o! I-auzi da, i-auzi da, i-auzi da!
Si stanga la bataie pune jos
Si doi pe-amandoi trage
Si dreapta goana, goana, goana!

Alba esti, frumoasa esti
De ce, neica, nu iubesti?
Numai ganduri sucesti
Si mai rau ma-mbolnavesti.
-Esti alba ca laptele
Si te-ntorci cu spatele.

RUTA-RUTA

Zi de Zi… You, you, you, you, you!
Z. D. O. B. pe pereti e grafitti
Cucu canta ragusit si tu, mandro, n-ai venit si
Z. D. U. B. un Fat-Frumos Brad Pitt
Unilica, donilica, trinilica, panili …

Iec, dui, trin, star
Canta-mi, Toma Alistar,
Pentru inima, suflet, zicatorule scripcar
Plugar curat, muncitor adevarat,
Spune, spune, mos batran, Niculaie super star!

Z. D. O. B. Tudor bate rabalii
Hai, Oprica , da-i bataie cu Fanfara Ciocarlia
Stanga, dreapta, a venit capra
2 0 0 3 aprindem Missy
White cat, black cat, tine, Mihai, hat
Asa se joaca pe la noi - Do re mi fasula si do re
De ura vom mai ura, mama strigatura mea
I like retro – muzica ethno!

Uite asa , iar asa
Ca la Basarabia!
Uite asa , iar asa
Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o!
Uite asa , iar asa
Ca la Transilvania!
Uite asa, iar asa
Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o!

D.O.B.A. cu vioara-i DJ
Trage de coada de cal,
Scartaie scratch, hey
P.R.U.T. curge rau prea iute
Ma prefac in sarpe de casa, omule, uite!
1,2,3,5 imbracati-va-n opinci
Sex, doba, rock’n’roll ,
Strange mai tare la chingi!
Iubesc folclorul – zica lautarilor
Cand se-aud foarte bine strunele tambalelor.
Eu ma duc pan’la sud
Sa ma uit la raul Prut.
Zice Iorga Liubomir ca acolo e nascut
Foaie verde, bob naut, fxxx-ti legea ta de cuc,
In Moldova canta totul – solz de peste nu e mut.

Uite asa, iac-asa
Ca la Basarabia!
Uite asa, iar asa
Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o!
Uite asa, iar asa
Ca la Transilvania!
Uite asa, iar asa
Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o!

Huta ruta cu caruta
Pan’la mama Catincuta
Huta ruta hutata

Pan’la mosul Niculai
Sa-i dau turta de malai
Sa-mi dea vreo 2 cai

Huta ruta cu caruta
Pan’la mama Catincuta
Huta ruta hutata

De la Podul lui Voloci
Vine huta-ruta mea
Huta ruta cu caruta pan’la mama mea
De la Podul lui Voloci
Vine huta-ruta mea
Huta ruta cu caruta pan’la mama Catincuta

Uite asa, iar asa
Ca la Basarabia!
Uite asa, iar asa
Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o!
Uite asa, iar asa
Ca la Transilvania!
Uite asa, iar asa
Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o!
Uite asa, iar asa
Ca la Basarabia!
Uite asa, iar asa
Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o!
Uite asa, iac-asa
Ca la Transilvania!
Uite asa, iar asa
Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o!

Zi de Zi… Zi de Zi..

-Sunt neagra ca gradina
Si ma-ntorc cu inima.
Auzi, lele, popa toaca
Iesi afara si te roaga,
Roga-te la Dumnezeu
Sa moara barbatul tau,
Sa ramai sa te iau eu
JUMP!

Hei, una, doua, trei, salt-o, salt-o!
Si doua pe-amandoua, i-auzi da, i-auzi da, i-auzi da!
JUMP!

Auzi, lele, pitpalaca
Iesi afara, mulge vaca.
Pana cand suge vitelul
Iubeste-ti ibovnicelul.
Auzi, lele, pitigoiul
Haide sa-nfundam zavoiul
Tu pe burta, eu pe branci
Pan’ ne-om mai juca prin lunci.
Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o! i-auzi da, i-auzi da!
JUMP!

Asta-i sarba, mai fratilor, a lui Cacurica de la Clejani!
Salt-o, salt-o, salt-o, salt-o! I-auzi da, i-auzi da, i-auzi da!

Translation coming soon