Take a break and enjoy a live concert from the streets of Lviv performed by The String Mockingbird.

This a Ukrainian folk song first published in 1875.It was banned during the Soviet occupation from 1919 to 1991.

Today in Crimea, singers of the song in an online video were imprisoned and fined.

Due to the song’s association with the Ukrainian people’s aspiration for independence, singing of the song was banned during the period in which

Lyrics

Oh, in the meadow a red kalyna has bent down low,
For some reason, our glorious Ukraine is in sorrow.
And we’ll take that red kalyna and we will raise it up,
And, hey-hey, we shall cheer up our glorious Ukraine!

Do not bend low, oh red kalyna,
you have a white flower,
Do not worry, glorious Ukraine, you have a free people.
And we’ll take that red kalyna and will raise it up,
And, hey-hey, we shall cheer up our glorious Ukraine!

Marching forward, our fellow volunteers,
into a bloody fray,
For to free our brother Ukrainians from the Moscovite shackles.
And we, our brother Ukrainians, we will then liberate,
And, hey-hey, we shall cheer up our glorious Ukraine!

Oh in the field of early spring wheat, there’s a golden furrow,
Then began the Ukrainian riflemen to engage the enemy.
And we’ll take that precious, early wheat and will gather it,
And, hey-hey, we shall cheer up our glorious Ukraine!

When the stormy winds blow forth from the wide steppes,
They will glorify, throughout Ukraine, the Sich Riflemen.
And so we will preserve the glories of these riflemen,
And, hey-hey, we shall cheer up our glorious Ukraine!

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