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Sherri
Here is the song that I promised you. It has to do with the courtship before the wedding.. Show this to your Mom.. She will know it..It is also a great song to dance to.. It is quick and peppy.. Perfect for the Polka Hop.. Play this at the wedding.. It is a very popular old timer.

PRAGNA OCZKA , PRAGNA

Pragna oczka pragna,,za dziewczyna ladna
Oblecala ,a nie dala, chusteke, jedbawna
chusteke , jedbawna

Dam cie Jasiu potem,,jak wyszje zlotem
Zeby Tata ani Mama. nie. wiedzieli o tym
Nie wiedzieli o tym

Pokusne me oczy, smiejace sie zawdy
Slokie slowa w ucho szepta, lecz nie mowi prawdi

Mylisz sie Jasienku, mylish w kazdym slowie
Co me serce do cie czuje, to wyraza w mowie

Wszystkiecie jednakie, lubice flirtowac
Ale przybliz sie do ktorej sprobuj pocalowac

Lubisz Jasiu dogrycz I masz ostre zeby
Nie mysle za toba gonic I madstawiac geby

Fujaryscie chlopcy, ino was zalowac
Od tego sa ladne buzie, zeby je calowac........


Basia>>> Can you add to this????

Sherri

You do not live too far from Scranton
.. I could recommend a great Polka Band.. They know all of the Oldies..

STANKY AND THE COAL MINERS :music: They are the greatest They are out of Scranton <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

If you need any more info.. Feel free to ask <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Frank,

thanks so much, it was also lovely that you included some of the songs. Do you have some of the old songbooks with all these song texts?

Of course I know who "babcia" is or a bit russified version of "babushka" but I really never heard and I do not even remember any mentioning on the wedding websites about babushka dance. This is really completely new to me. It almost looks as like this was an old Slavic tradition not only Polish. Very interesting. Thanks for taking your time.

As I told you before, the old tradition survives among old Polonia more than new.

I have a couple of articles about weddings but I focused on the newer traditions, just like weddings are prepared now in Poland and not 50 years ago but many people abroad ask me questions as like... they really ask for old traditions and they want still to use it. Because of that I learnt more about the weddings of the past

Jaga,,

The information that I give you is what I grew up with..I never looked at web sites.. What I tell you is as exactly how I was raised..All of the songs that I post on here are from my memory alone..In my early years we sat around the fire at night telling the same old stories about Poland..Then we sang Polish songs..This I will never forget. I must know over 100 old time Polish songs.. Some time I would like to type them up.. But my eyes are too bad

Do not under estimate BASIA.. She was raised just like me.. She is sharp. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

:rolling: HI Jaga

Babushka to me meant a head scarf,which the baba's (old woman wore.) At weddings the bride would remove her veil and put a babushka on her head to signify she was now a married women and the apron dance began at that time.

Basia

Frank Thank you for the compliment.

Basia

Frank,

you have a very good memory but for a sake of your children and future generations you should write the texts of these songs down somehwere so that they would be not forgotten.

Basia,

the name of the head scarf as babushka - I heard it somewhere although this is not very familiar to me. Maybe it is because I remember the most the family traditions from Silesia and Silesians have their own dialect a bit different from other regions. But my real "babcia" used scarfs all the times on her head. She was a last generation of women who did not dress in modern cloths, like her children already did.

Jaga,
In response your your request.. It is also sad that here in America our children have lost the ability to speak,read, or write in Polish.. I thought of doing what you suggested, but after me, there is no one left to read the words to these beautiful songs.. When I go, they go with me.
My daughter still remembers parts of the language, from her Grand parents.But she cannot speak it.. I taught my youngest Grand Daughter a few songs in Polish, and German.. But she just responds to the sound of the words. She does not know the meanings.
My wife still remembers some of the songs.. A lot of times she would ask me to sing a special song,and she would join in. Even I sometime have to refer to a Polish Dictionary to remember the proper spelling

Jaga I feel very happy today.. I will sing you my favorite song... PRINT IT OUT FOR YOURSELF

Glemboka Studzienka

Glemboka studzienks,glemboka skopana
A przynie Kasienka, Jakby malowana

Stala przy studzience, wodi nabierala
O swoim kohanku, Jasienku myslawa

Zebym cie Jasienku, w wodzie zobaczyla
Tobym do studzienski, za toba skoczyla
Naprzod bym rzucila, Ten bialy wia neczek

Com se go uwila, ze samych rozeczek
Gloka studzienko, czy nam do cie szkoczyc

Tesknie za Jasienkiem, Zycie sobie skrocic
Nie skocza do ciebie, studzienko gleboka

Zadaleko do dna, I zimna ta woda
Ucaluje listek szeroki debowy, razem zpozzdrowienem
Wrzuce, go do wody.

Zanies go studziensko, do Jasienko mego
Powiedz mu odemnie, ze czekam na mego

Jaga,, If you can make use of these songs.. I can go on forever
,,as long as my eyes hold out :music:

Frank,

I know this song. Did you ever see Mazowsze or Slask folklor ansembles? They were travelling to the USA pretty often in the past I am not sure what is their status now. Probably they became privatized and it may be expensive to upkeep all.