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Щедрик щедрик, щедрiвочка,
прилeтiла ластiвочка,
стала собi щебетати,
господаря викликати:
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"Вийди, вийди, господарю,
подивися на кошару,
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там овечки покотились,
а ягнички народились.
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В тебе товар весь хороший,
будеш мати мiрку грошей,
В тебе товар весь хороший,
будеш мати мiрку грошей,
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хоч не грошей, то полова:
в тебе жiнка чорноброва."
Щедрик щедрик, щедрiвочка,
прилeтiла ластiвочка.
Steve Repa
LT
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Nick96 
The song is a new years well wish, sung after Christmas - with the rebirth of the sun, life being freed from icy death, the birds were harbingers of good news in pagan times, and so she brings good news of hope, prosperity, abundance to the land lord in the beginning of the new year. and the renewal of all things. All shedrivky have these themes. These are not Christmas carols, never sung in church, but by girls house to house, rewarded for their efforts. The boys sang the carols proclaiming the renewal of creation with the birth of Christ (sun of enlightenment). With the coming of grace in the holy spirit (melting of the ice) and the freedom from the icy death and sin - given renewal, eternal life in Christ, and a renewed relationship with the creator. ( to be dark browed was a sign of beauty)
Carol of the Bells" (also known as the "Ukrainian Bell Carol") is a choral miniature work originally composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych. Throughout the composition, Leontovych used a four note motif .as an ostinato which was taken from an ancient pagan Ukrainian New Year's chant known in Ukrainian as "Shchedryk" [the Generous One] KILLED by the KGB for being a Ukrainian Nationalist. He lives on in his music
BANDURA CHOIR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DNXjB1DM0k.