The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88686   Message #2912112
Posted By: Artful Codger
22-May-10 - 04:20 PM
Thread Name: Origins:/ADD: Above a Plain / Swiftly Flowing Labe
Subject: Isla Marina: additional lyrics
In the "Stodola Pumpa" thread, Zaba wrote:

Išla Marina is very nice song my Grandma and my Daddy did sing. Joe Offer's translation is really good. I have found some other verses:

Čože ma, čože, do Tvojho vína, mala bych dcéru, alebo syna.
Huja, huja, hujajá, tečie voda kalná, huja, huja, hujajá, tečie voda z hôr.
Ak bude chlapec, dám ho do školy, bude sa učiť, zlaté litery.
Huja, huja, hujajá, tečie voda kalná, huja, huja, hujajá, tečie voda z hôr.
Ak bude dievča, bude Katrenča, bude husárom, švárne frajerča.
Huja, huja, hujajá, tečie voda kalná, huja, huja, hujajá, tečie voda z hôr.

It's hard to understand even for me :-). It's something like that:

I don't care your wine, I would have a daughter or a son.
Huja..
If it'll be a boy, I'll send him to school, he will learn gold letters.
Huja...
If it'll be a girl, she will be "Katrenča" (I can't imagine, what it could mean, maybe a name Kateřina (Catherine), or anything else), she will be a pretty lass for hussars.