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VIOLET ON THE MOUNTAIN<br />
I will give the<br />
[+ II] messenger a gift,<br />
Bright-eyed woman,<br />
I will give the messenger a gift,<br />
Bright-eyed woman.<br />
A bull with a white<br />
[+ II] spot on its forehead,<br />
Bright-eyed woman,<br />
a bull with a white spot on its forehead,<br />
Bright-eyed woman.<br />
Like a black crow<br />
[+ II] I go out to the tree,<br />
Bright-eyed woman,<br />
like a black crow I go out to the tree,<br />
Bright-eyed woman.<br />
My husband will<br />
[+ II] take care of me,<br />
Bright-eyed woman,<br />
my husband will take care of me,<br />
Bright-eyed woman.<br />
Like a<br />
[+ II] precious pearl,<br />
Bright-eyed woman.<br />
Violet on the mountain<br />
Violet on the mountain, on the snowy mountain,<br />
I planted a violet, up came a rose,<br />
Violets to my ankles, roses to my neck,<br />
A herd of deer came over this way.<br />
May they graze freely, but trample them not.<br />
The groom went out with his father-in-law,<br />
They met on the mountain a large-antlered buck.<br />
The son-in-law shot — he killed the buck.<br />
The father-in-law shot — he killed the groom.<br />
— “Barbara, my child, what can I tell you?<br />
I killed your husband, don’t kill yourself.”<br />
— “May you, my father, my father so noble<br />
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