I leave, I leave | I leave, I leave

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Béla Pavelka

Elmënyëk, elmënyëk

Language: Hungarian (Magyar)

Our translations: ENG

[Elmegyek]¹, elmegyek
Hosszú útra [megyek]²,
Hosszú út porából
Köpönyeget veszek.
Búval és bánattal
Kizsinóroztatom,
Sűrű könnyeimmel
Kigomboztattatom.

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¹ Kodály: "elmënyëk"
² Kodály: "mënyëk"

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Zoltán Kodály (1882 - 1967), "Elmënyëk, elmënyëk", from Magyar Népzene VIII = Hungarian Folk Music VIII, no. 4. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Béla Pavelka) , "I leave, I leave", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 21

I leave, I leave

Language: English after the Hungarian (Magyar)

 I leave, I leave
 I leave for a long journey.
 The dust of travel
 covers me like a coat;
 Sorrow and heartache
 will be its laces¹,
 and my dense tears
 will be its buttons.

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¹ such as on an 18th-century hussar uniform

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a text in Hungarian (Magyar) from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37