Hi, Rena - I found it at the Four Winds Camp Songbook, but then I verified the text from a songbook called Happy Meeting: Folk Songs from Czechoslovakia (World Around Songs).

Above a Plain (Swiftly Flowing Labe)
(Czech Marching Tune)
(arranged by Fjeril Hess and Lilian Jackson)

Above a plain of gold and green,
A young boy's head is plainly seen

Chorus:
Huya, huya, huya,ya, Swiftly flowing water
Huya, huya, huya,ya, Swiftly flowing Labe.

But no, 'tis not his lifting head,
'Tis Ifca's castle spires instead.
(Chorus)

For our pleasure it was made,
This gray old building deep in shade.
(Chorus)


"Labe" is the Elbe River (it's "La-be," two syllables).

The song is included as "Swiftly Flowing Labe" in The Ditty Bag a songbook compiled in 1946 by Janet E. Tobitt. This translation originally appeared in The Song Book of the Y.W.C.A., 1926.

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