Ukrainian song - Chorea Kozacka LIVE 9, I had a Horse / Хорея Козацька, Мав я коня ще й рушницю
Channel: MusiqueMonAmour
Date: 2022-03-28

"I had a Horse and a Firearm" - a ballad (ENGLISH subtitles) / Мав я коня ще й рушницю
by Chorea Kozacka / Хорея Козацька

"Concert of Traditional Songs" (Polish: Koncert pieśni tradycyjnych)
Date: 13 September 2017
Venue: Nowy Świat Muzyki, Nowy Świat Str., Warsaw

MUSICIANS / МУЗЫКАНТЫ

Taras Kompanichenko / Тарас Компаніченко
leader, lead vocals, bandura
Iaroslav Krysko / Ярослав Криськоbandura
a chordophone, vocals
Severyn Danyleiko / Северин Данилейко
basolia, vocals
Serhiy Okhrimchuk / Сергій Охрімчук
Master of the violin
Mykhailo Kachalov / Михайло Качалов
vielle

LYRICS/ ТЕКСТ

Lyrics: based on the poem "Hey, bula v mene Koniaka " (Hey I had a Horse) by Iakiv Shchoholev (1823-1898) / Текст: Яків Щоголев 
Music: Aloiz Iedlichka (1821-1894) / Музика: Алоїз Єдлічка

Мав я коня ще й рушницю,
Ту дівчину чарівницю,
Коня мого турки вбили,
Ляхи шаблю пощербили.

Гей була в мене коняка,
Та коняка-розбишака,
: Була шабля ще й рушниця,
  Ще й дівчина чарівни(ця). :

Щё коня москали вбили,
Ляхи шаблю пощербили,
: І рушниця поламалась,
  І дівчина відцура(лась). :

За Буджацькими степами
Їдуть наші з бунчуками.
: А я з плугом і з сохою
  Понад нивою сухою :

Гей гей-гей мій чорний воле!
Степ широкий, стерня коле.
: Вітер віє-повіває,
  Казаночок закипа(є) :

Повіває вітерочок,
Закипає казаночок.
: Поки все засне під млою, 
  Йдіть вечеряти зо мною. :

Гей, хто в лісі озовися,
Гей хто в полі одкликнися!
: Йдіть до мене вечеряти
  Серце моє звеселя(ти). :

Зву. Луна за лугом гине...
Казаночок стигне, стигне.
Вітер віє повіває,
Казаночок застигає.
Вітер віє повіває,
Серце з жалю замира(є)

English
(translated by Ivonna Nowicka,
26-28 March 2022)

I had a horse and a firearm
And a sweetheart so full of charm.
Turkish raiders killed my bay horse,
And my sable was chipped by Poles.

Hey, I had this bay rowdy horse,
Not submissive to any force.
: I had a sabre and a firearm,
  And a sweetheart so full of charm. : 

Moskals came and killed my bay horse
And my sabre was chipped by Poles.
: My shotgun broke I don’t know why,
  And my sweetheart said goodbye. :

Across the endless Budzhak Steppes
Resound our army’s dauntless steps.
: Across this dried out piece of ground
  It’s me, ploughing it round by round. :

Hey, hey, hey my fate of trouble!
Steppes so vast; and rough – the stubble
: The wind is whistling in the plain,
  My pot will boil quite soon, again. :

The wind is humming through the plain,
The pot is boiling once again.
: Before sleep comes to close the day, 
  Join me for supper, rest on your way. :

If you’re in the woods, please reply,
If in the fields, answer my cry! 
: Do come for supper, rest on your way,
  Lift my heart up, make my mood gay. :

The Moon is gliding below the plain,
The pot’s all cold, I call in vain.
The wind murmurs in the meadow,
And my fire’s just a shadow...
The wind is weeping in the meadow, 
O’er my heart there is a shadow.

ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE

The Ukrainian ensemble Chorea Kozacka or the Cossack Choreia was founded in 2005 in Kiev by Taras Kompanichenko. He has also become the leader of the ensemble. Chorea Kozacka plays early Ukrainian and Ruthenian music, reconstructing old songs from the late Middle Ages and the Rennaissance and Baroque periods.

Their source of inspiration and information are manuscripts and old prints. One such precious book, the "Chorea Kozacky” found in 1640 in musical archives of Bratislava,  Slovakia, has become the source of the ensemble's name.

Chorea Kozacka calls its concerts musical journeys through the land of the ancestors. The ensemble is well know in its native Ukraine, it has also toured Poland, Switzerland and Germany.

In this particular concert in Warsaw, two other ensembles specialising in the Ukrainian tradition performed with and without Chorea Kozacka. These were:
the Kapela Serhija Ochrimczuka or the Traditional Band Of Serhiy Okhrimchuk from Kiev and
the Polish teenage group Krajka (please read: /krayka/) from the city of Przemyśl.

THE LEADER

The leader, Taras Kompanichenko, is a painter and art historian turned musician. He plays the kobza, bandura and lute and does musicological research. He was also actively involved in the Orange Revolution of 2004-2005 and the Euromaidan Uprising of 2013–2014 in the Ukraine.

LINKS / ПОСИЛАННЯ

on YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRAuMbfS_qGOTwfFy8-q09Q
on FB: www.facebook.com/Хорея-Козацька-173908926023379
on Wikipedia: https://uk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Хорея_Козацька
(in Ukrainian)
about the leader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Kompanichenko
about the concert: https://nasze-slowo.pl/events/wyjatkowy-koncert-muzyki-dawnej-w-warszawie/
(in Polish)
on the author of the lyrics: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Щоголів_Яків_Іванович
(in Ukrainian)
on the composer: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Єдлічка_Алоїз_Венцеславович
(in Ukrainian)

Copyright:
Ivonna Nowicka