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Posted By: GUEST,HRL
22-May-09 - 04:46 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Suliko (Georgian folk song)
Subject: RE: Suliko (Georgian folk song)
The lyrics of song "SULIKO" in Georgian (phonetic):

sahvarlis saflavs vetshebdi,
ver vnakhe dakarguliho,
gulamoskvnili vtirodi,
sada khar tshemo suliko?

ekaltshi vardi thevnishne,
oblad rom amosulikho,
gulis fantskhali vkhithkvadi
tshen khom ara khar suliko?

sheifr tkhiala mgosanma,
vavils niskarti tsheakho
tshaivnes tshai tshitshikwika
tikhos tskvadiah, diakho!

sahvarlis saflavs vetshebdi,
ver vnakhe dakarguliho,
gulamoskvnili vtirodi,
sada khar tshemo suliko?

English version:

I was looking for my sweetheart's grave,
And longing was tearing my heart.
Without love my heart felt heavy -
Where are you, my Suliko?

Among fragrant roses, in the shadow,
Brightly a nightingale sang his song.
There I asked the nightingale
Where he had hidden Suliko.

Suddenly the nightingale fell silent
And softly touched the rose with the beak
"You have found what you are looking for," he said,
In an eternal sleep Suliko is resting here.

And the most accurate translation of the lyrics:

I was looking for the grave of my darling,
Could not find it.
Was harrowingly crying where are you my Suliko?

I noticed a rose among the blackthorn
Which was grown lonely
With a fast heartbeat I asked maybe you are Suliko?

Songster flushed and touched a flower it's beak
Moaned and twittered
As if answered 'yes'!