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Thread #88686   Message #527083
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
13-Aug-01 - 06:09 PM
Thread Name: Origins:/ADD: Above a Plain / Swiftly Flowing Labe
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lyrics from a song dad sang in my yo
Across the fields of gold and green
A young boy's head is plainly seen

A-hoo-ya, hoo-ya, hoo-ya-ya
Swiftly flowing Labe (repeat these 2 lines)

O no, 'tis not a young boy's head-
'Tis Ifka's castlespires instead!

A-hoo-ya, etc.

This also is Czech, I think. I learned it at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, long ago in my youth!