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Pa​ń​szczyzna

from Mala Herba Demo by Mala Herba

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Little sun!
If you are to set, set faster,
Because our legs are sore from walking over the field.
Legs are sore from walking, hands are sore from working.
Little sun!
If you are to set, set faster.
Go behind the forest, don't peek out.
You'll have enough of looking when you rise early tomorrow.

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I know this song from my mom and she knows it from hers. However, it is quite possible that my grandmother learned it while singing in a choir. Although the song has traditional origins it has been later on transformed and used by a folk group “Mazowsze”, which filtered traditional music through classical singing and ballet to serve regime propaganda. However, the song carries the pain and exhaustion of the serfs - land-slaves, the peasants, finally freed from any form of unpaid work in 1930. This melody haunts me when I try to imagine the unrecorded story of my family.

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from Mala Herba Demo, released October 7, 2017

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