PENUMBRA by David Nez

 



Hey, the cock crows in the cherry tree,
Hear him crowing at the break of day.
Daylight spreads, yet a bright star does still shine,
Hey! I am still with my sweetheart, ay!

 

See Song No. 95 of Bela Bartok, Hungarian Folk Music,
trans. M. D. Calvocoressi (London: Oxford University Press, 1931),
appendix p. 27, and text, p. 126.