Please help to write down lyrics and translate doina

Oh, thank you so much!!! The lyrics of the doinas are truly beautiful, I guessed they might be from the wonderful melodies, and yet I was amazed.

The performers and music you suggested are just wonderful! It's pure pleasure to listen to them. Indeed, I'm so fortunate to have met you! :)

Calusarul, that is so cool, I would love to see how you play it! Somehow I've never seen anyone play a leaf until now. I've discovered this really impressive recording made in the 30s (but you've probably heard it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6kIrSBRBdk

No, I'm not writing a paper, but just stumbled across a TV appearance by Ileana Constantinescu on Youtube one day, while listening to something different, and was so enchanted that I decided to listen to more doinas. And now I'm hooked - folk music is such a vast fascinating subject, really.

I was wondering, if you ever have the time, could you please translate a couple more songs? :)
The first one is this, the melody is so gorgeous: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Suzana-Popescu-Mai-puiu%C8%9B-de-randunea...
And the second one is here:

It seems like an alternative version of this already translated song: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Suzana-Popescu-Frunzi%C8%99oara-poama-nea... - but if I am not mistaken, the lyrics are different...

Once again, thank you so much for everything!

Oh, your P.S. about the thanking (from an older post) made me laugh!
And yes, I've learned that listening to doinas can be addictive indeed... :)

I'm so amazed by each translation, the lyrics are truly beautiful and touching. The Love Song is so charming in its honesty and simplicity. You're right, though, it isn't, of course, the same as "Frunzișoară, poamă neagră", but there are certain similarities which struck my ear.

And the doinas you've suggested are absolutely gorgeous. I love the idea and metaphor in "Mama mea când m-a făcut", the sheer beauty of "N--am gândit că oi ajunge", and, well, everything about "Cântec vechi", it's such a rich song...

I suppose the "out of tune" violin might indeed be "traditional" for that area, then... :) And actually, I don't mind that much - there are often curious things happening in folk music. Part of the charm seems to be in it. :)

The Petreuș brothers are wonderful, I'm glad there are so many songs here! They are such a pleasure to listen to. Yes, their violin sounds more normal, not such a sharp strange sound. :)

I agree about the electric organ. It leaves nothing of the real spirit of traditional music, I'm surprised people use it in such situations at all - it might be more comfortable in a way, but doesn't sound good, so what's the point...

I've corrected my previous post with the songs a bit - added a line I had missed in one of the translations.

I'm so glad you enjoyed the Estonian songs! I like Mari very much, though I've never associated her with Lhasa, interesting... They seem so different to me in spirit: even though I don't understand most of Mari's songs, they seem very calm and rather uplifting, while Lhasa is often intensely tragic.

Oh, about the Russian songs - real folk music is very different from stuff like "Otchi tchernye". That one, I think, is a popular song that belongs to the XIX century city culture, with "gypsy" flavour, while the musical language of songs from the village is very different. I first heard Russian folk music only a few years ago, and was blown away, it sounded so fresh to my ears, back then too used to clichés that come from the XIX century. But I hope you'll hear some of that... :)

Pițigoi and Petreuș brothers - that's interesting, their geographical position! I guess 100 km is enough space so there can be a substantial difference in tradition... but one has to ask an ethnomusicologist about that, I suppose. :)

PS Hurrah! I've found a page with translations of Mari's songs into English: http://www.marikalkun.com/records/lyrics/ - the songs you posted here are in there as well, if you scroll down. They are in Võru dialect (the letter "õ" is something like "â" in "când"), of which I understand very, very little. In "Üü tulõk" a few lines are missing from the translation in the end, but can't fill that gap, unfortunately.

Yes, yes, "Otchi tchernye" is a romance! This Ukranian song you posted... I suppose it's more "folk", but it's still not the type of music I like best. I do wonder what time and circumstances it comes from and why it is so different... Here is a beautiful song I really like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X6u1mF20ZQ - a gorgeous song wonderfully performed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YklrqQxWQ4 - and this one that is absolutely amazing, but sadly it's difficult to listen to because of the sound is not so good. (I suggest listening to it quietly, makes it a bit better.) It's a pity, I heard it live and it was fantastic.
(And I still hope you'll listen to the songs I posted earlier. :))

Maria Tănase - of course I've heard her! :) And this reminds me, there are some more songs I would very much like you to translate when you have the time. One is by Maria Tănase, another by Maria Lătăreţu, and one more by Ilinca Burlan, here they are:

The Aromanian songs are indeed lovely. And Grigore Leșe is just great, of course! I love to listen to him.
Yes, traditional music is wonderful! It really needs all the attention it can get nowadays, because the tradition is dying out in so many places, with people moving out of villages... We need to keep it alive! :)

The songs are beautiful, yet again, I love the texts! This time, actually, I'm surprised that although these songs sound very dramatic, somehow menacing, even, the words are almost serene... Oh, yes, I remember noticing the beginning of the first doina in the medley!

That is a lovely thing, about your mother's name! Fantastic coincidences. :)

I'm so glad you liked "Ой, как вспомним это время", I think it's one of my favourites. Those lyrics are very close. In the video they only sing a few lines slightly differently. Do you, then, understand Russian well? :)
I've tried to write down the words as I hear them in the song, but I'm not sure about the spelling, since the pronunciation is different from "standard" - I write the words like I'm used to, but the link you found must be more correct.

Ой, так вспомним это время
Когда вёл нас генерал
Чрез высокий и холодный
Чрез турецкий перевал.
Эх, так вспомним как бродили
По колено по снегам
И коней в руках водили
И навстречу шли врагам.
Через горы и долины
Чрез озёра и луга
Едут разъездни дозоры
Ищут турского врага.

Also, I've tried to translate an Estonian song... It's by a band called Indigolapsed - "Indigochildren" - they perform original songs with absolutely gorgeous lyrics (and luckily, in "standard" Estonian I can understand!). My translation is very clumsy, but I had to try. Here it is: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ookeani-laul-ocean-song.html

Great to see the third song translated, what a dramatic story. :) I love Anton Pann, and Trei Parale even more! I see there are so many wonderful traditional performers in Romania - it's fantastic. The Bulgarian song is also very nice, it does remind me of Russian songs a bit.

About the Russian ballad - yes, exactly! I love this kind of music, and this song definitely one of my favourites. I'm glad you liked it!
Here are the lyrics and translation, as well as I managed to write them: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D1%83-%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1...
And here are the lyrics and translation of the second song, "Зплакали глаза мои": https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%D0%B7%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B...

I'm also glad to hear what you said about Russian things. Vysotsky is fantastic, Zemfira is ok, and I also like Tarkovsky, his work is very special. (But the politicians... I agree with you. Very few people like them, and I can't help feeling these people are under some sort of illusion.)