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Thread #655   Message #1717020
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Apr-06 - 01:22 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Ho Young Rider (Yugoslavian round)
Subject: ADD: The Apple-Cheeked Rider
Rider is in Janet Tobitt's The Ditty Bag (1946), which is one of the standard hymnals for Girl Scouts in the U.S.
-Joe Offer-


The Apple-Cheeked Rider
(Slovak folk song, English by Fjeril Hess)

Ho! young rider, Apple-cheeked one,
Whither riding?
On your steed so black and prancing,
Whither riding?
What matters where I ride,
Slovak mountains are my pride,
Dusha moya.
What matters where I ride,
Slovak mountains are my pride,
Dusha moya.

Dusha moya - little sweetheart

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