Hmmmm. Interesting how songs get mentioned several times within a couple of weeks, and then not at all for years. I posted lyrics and tune in the Above a Plain / Swiftly Flowing Labe thread last week.
I didn't find out anything about the Icfa castle - Judy's raising of the possibility of a YWCA connection was intriguing. Sure enough, the very explanation Judy posted appears word-for-word in my copy of Sing Along the Way, a pocket songbook published by the YWCA and the Cooperative Recreation Service.
-Joe-

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The same book has Stodola Pumpa. The lyrics are almost what Sorcha posted, but not quite - major difference is the chorus, as Judy said. Here they are:

Walking at Night (Stodola Pumpa - Czech Folk song)

Walking at night along the meadow way.
Home from the dance beside my maiden gay.
Walking at night along the meadow way.
Home from the dance beside my maiden gay, HEY!

CHORUS:
Stodola, stodola, stodola pumpa.
Stodola pumpa, stodola pumpa.
Stodola, stodola, stodola pumpa.
Stodola pumpa, pum-pum-pum.

Nearing the wood we heard the nightingale.
Sweetly it helped me tell my begging tale.
Nearing the wood we heard the nightingale.
Sweetly it helped me tell my begging tale, HEY!

CHORUS

Many the stars that brightly shone above.
But none so bright as her one word of love.
Many the stars that brightly shone above.
But none so bright as her one word of love, HEY!

CHORUS

Sing Along the Way, a pocket songbook published by the YWCA and the Cooperative Recreation Service - translated and arranged by A.D. Zanzig, originally published in Singing America

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Does the tune sound right?

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This page has it in Spanish, with MP3.


Brilha a fogueira ao pé do acampamento
para alegria não há melhor momento.
Velhos amigos não perdem a ocasião
de reunidos cantar uma canção – Ei!!!
Stodola stodola stodola Pumpa stodola pumpa stodola pumpa
Stodola stodola stodola Pumpa stodola pumpa pumpa pum!

No acampamento que faz o escoteiro
muito trabalha durante o dia inteiro,
mas, quando a noite já trouxe a escuridão,
acende o fogo e canta uma canção – Ei!!!
Stodola stodola stodola Pumpa stodola pumpa stodola pumpa
Stodola stodola stodola Pumpa stodola pumpa pumpa pum!