Byla cesta
Traditional Moravian carol about the Virgin Mary. She is walking through Moravia in the depths of winter (since as everyone knows Christ as born in December) when all the lakes are frozen. She is on her way to vespers(!) when she meets her relative, Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, who tells her that she is going to give birth to a son.
From Muldoon’s Picnic: Katy Lavinia Cooper, Sheena Templeton, Harry Campbell.
From Voicebeat, led by Harry Campbell: Lilian Delaney, Linda Entwistle, Frank Ewing, Karen Ewing, Jackie Heaton, Tony Irwin (Snr), Adrianna Kaczyńska, Gordon Kennedy (semichorus), Guy Ngansi, Anastazia McCorgarry, Fiona Mackenzie, Maggie McTernan (semichorus), Marie Mailley, Marie Morris, Sula O’Duffy, Fiona Proctor, Toby Rhead, Anna Serafini, David A Stevenson, Salwa el Tawil, Hannah Thorley (semichorus), Maureen Uney, Inga Walshe.
http://www.voicebeat.org
From Voicebeat, led by Harry Campbell: Lilian Delaney, Linda Entwistle, Frank Ewing, Karen Ewing, Jackie Heaton, Tony Irwin (Snr), Adrianna Kaczyńska, Gordon Kennedy (semichorus), Guy Ngansi, Anastazia McCorgarry, Fiona Mackenzie, Maggie McTernan (semichorus), Marie Mailley, Marie Morris, Sula O’Duffy, Fiona Proctor, Toby Rhead, Anna Serafini, David A Stevenson, Salwa el Tawil, Hannah Thorley (semichorus), Maureen Uney, Inga Walshe.
http://www.voicebeat.org
LYRICS
Byla cesta, byla ušlapaná, kdo ju šlapal, kdo ju šlapal? Matka Krista Pána. Postřetla ju tam svatá Alžběta, kam ty kráčíš, kam ty kráčíš, sestřičko má milá? Kráčím, sestro, kráčím do kostela, poslúchať mše, poslúchať mše, svatého nešpora. Nechoď sestro, nechoď do kostela, povídajú, povídajú, že porodíš syna. Enem jedna voda nezamrzla, kde Maria, kde Maria pro vodu chodila, by Ježíšku, by Ježíšku kúpel udělala. |
TRANSLATION
(sold as seen!) The path was trodden. Who trod it? The mother of our Lord. She met there Saint Elizabeth: "Where are you going, my dear sister?" "I am going to church, sister To hear holy vespers." "Do not go to church, dear sister For you shall give birth to a son." No water was unfrozen where Maria went looking for water. To bath the baby Jesus. |