Name: When you come of age child (Vyrostych ty synu)
Duration: 4 min 42 s
Channel: W:V.Symopnenko, M:A.Paskevych. Eng:S.Pasicznyk
Description: Sung by Chrystyna and Natalka Pasicznyk. A Mother tells her baby what life may bring in their troubled land. English adaptation of Ukrainian classic. Itunes, Amazon soon via www.ukrainians.org.uk English words - Stepan Pasicznyk.

When you come of age child (Vyrostych ty synu)

Stepan Pasicznyk

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Sung by Chrystyna and Natalka Pasicznyk. A Mother tells her baby what life may bring in their troubled land. English adaptation of Ukrainian classic. Itunes, Amazon soon via www.ukrainians.org.uk English words - Stepan Pasicznyk.

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Genre

World • Traditional European

Charts

#2,449 today Peak #5

#62 in subgenre Peak #1

Author

W:V.Symopnenko, M:A.Paskevych. Eng:S.Pasicznyk

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English adaptation words Stepan Pasicznyk 2015

Uploaded

April 09, 2015

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MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:42

Story behind the song

Sung by Chrystyna and Natalka Pasicznyk. A Mother tells her baby what life may bring in their troubled land. English adaptation of Ukrainian classic. All about homeland and importance of family.

Lyrics

When you come of age child 
In your life you’ll have  choices 
Some not of your creating
Hopes and fears still sleeping 
Will grow without abating.
Where ever you go – you will  know
There’s something that’s binding you 
To  home and  to your  loved ones
Whose  prayers  are trying  to find you.

If your fate should find you
In so called “fields of glory”
A weeping willow’s whisper 
Will carry home your story,
And as  its mourning leaves are 
Gently stroking your peaceful face,
Your soul by then   departed 
Will know eternal grace.

You may choose your friends child,  
And call them sisters or brothers,
But these were chosen for you, 
Your homeland father and   mother.
Where ever you go – you will  know
There’s something that’s binding you 
To  home and  to your  loved ones
Whose  prayers  were  trying  to find you.

Original Ukrainian Words  © V Symonenko 1935-1963  
(1960’s  Ukrainian poet, Literary figure  &  Soviet era Dissident) 
Music © A Pashkevych.
Translation/adaptation © Stepan Pasicznyk December 3rd 2009

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