Years ago I worked in a largely Polish-speaking area west of Toronto and learned a number of beautiful Polish carols including this one.

I love 'W zlobie lezy' but the version GSS linked doesn't bowl me over. Were the tenor in tune, I would still find it too plain, i.e. lacking dynamics amd with little or no sense of telling the emotional story (which is simple and very clear the lyrics). Funny how this plainness is exactly what GSS loves! Yet I tired of the repetetive harmonies and the singing itself seemed rather mechanical to me. This one, in its expression anyhow, is more to my liking, but still has real tuning problems; as well this arrangement goes further afield, harmonically, from the original than I would prefer. Not as far afield as the numerous youtube versions drowing in schmaltz.

So I'm still hunting for that special version of this carol that wows me the way the one he linked wows GSS. I'll be looking for some variety in harmony from verse to verse, well tuned singing, dynamics showing that the singers are saying something more important than blah blah blah, and heart and soul to burn!

Rather picky, aren't I? :-)