Subatos vakareli

Creator

Baranoucky, Ruth

Date

• August 30, 1946

Summary

• Lithuanian
• Performers, Lithuanian Group [from the Church of the Immaculate Conception]
• "Saturday night I saddled my black horse
• Lyra, lyra (like tra la la)
• Black horse saddled, to a girl I rode, Lyra etc.
• I rode a hundred miles and I came to a green forest, Lyra etc.
• In that green forest was a striped bird that sang like a cuckoo
• 'Bird, why are you singing so sadly?'
• The bird answered that the girl I was going to see had died, Lyra etc.
• My love died and I won't get another like her, Lylia etc."