La separazione | Se la mia falce fosse affilata

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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Translation © by Carla Bellini

Dyby byla kosa nabróšená

Language: Moravian (Moravština)

Our translations: DUT ENG ITA

Dyby byla kosa nabróšená,
dyby byla votava,
co by vona drobnó jetelinku,
co by vona šupala!

A šupaj šupaj drobná jetelinko,
co je mně po tobě,
má zlatá panenko,
co je mně po tobě,
dys ty se mně provdala!

Text Authorship:

from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , from a collection of Moravian folk songs compiled by František Sušil [author's text not yet checked 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 Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Dyby byla kosa nabróšená", op. 29b no. 3, B. 60 no. 3 (1876) [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ], from Moravské dvojzpevy II. rada, no. 3, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Dyby byla kosa nabróšená", B. 107 no. 1 (1880) [ women's chorus ], from Ženské sbory, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Josef Srb-Debrnov (1836 - 1904) ; composed by Antonín Dvořák.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "Als de zeis scherp was geweest", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff) , "An my scythe were whetted sharp and keen..."
ENG English (Patrick Corness) , "If only my scythe were sharpened", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Carla Bellini) , "La separazione", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 39

La separazione

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the Moravian (Moravština)

Se la mia falce fosse affilata
mi guarderei il fieno,
e poi taglierei con la falce
tutto il trifoglio verde del mio prato!

Sì, con la mia falce affilata
taglierei ogni angolino verde,
che mi importa più di te,
mio tesorino d'oro, che mi importa più di te,
in fin dei conti hai un altro uomo!

Text Authorship:

Translation from Moravian (Moravština) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2008 by Carla Bellini, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in Moravian (Moravština) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , from a collection of Moravian folk songs compiled by František Sušil
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This text was added to the website: 2008-11-06
Line count: 9
Word count: 56