Valerii Hrunskyi: Carl Orff Competition 2020 Behind A Grove, Grove

The content of song lyrics translated into English
“Behind A Grove, Grove”
Behind a green grove
A girl was plowing
By a black ox.

She was plowing,
But she couldn’t hollo (in order to control the oxen)
So she hired a Cossack
To help her by playing the violin.

The Cossack plays
and blinks his eyebrows…
“Who knows
what he blinks at:

Either at my oxen,
Or at the cows,
Or at my white face,
Or at the black eyebrows?

The oxen and the cows
All will die,
The white face, the black eyebrows
For ever won’t fade!” – thinks the girl.