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Thread #81713 Message #1891347
Posted By: Joe Offer
22-Nov-06 - 09:54 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Yovano Yovanke / Jovano, Jovanke
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Yovano Yovanke
There's sheet music here (click). Here's another transcription of the lyrics, from here (click):
JOVANO JOVANKE
Jovano, Jovanke
Krai vardara sedish, more, belo platno belish,
Belo platno belish, dushe, se ne gorai, glaidash
Jovano, dear Jovano - sitting on the bank of the Vardara River, washing clothes...
Jovano, Jovanke
Ja ste tebye chekam, moré, doma da mi doidesh,
A te ne dovaidesh, dushe, serdtse moyo, Jovano
Jovano, dear Jovano - I wait for you but you do not come my love...
Jovano, Jovanke
Tvoyata maika, more tebye ne te pushta
Sto mene da doidesh dushe, serdtse moyo, Jovano
Jovano, dear Jovano - your mother doesn't permit me to see you...
Sources say this is a Macedonian folk song. Since this doesn't look like Greek to me, I take it that this is the Macedonia that used to be part of Yugoslavia.
-Joe-