BLUE BEAT by David Nez

 



You go seek the needle,
And I the thimble,
Let me sew for my beloved
A new cotton shirt.

Now that I have sewn it,
I will give it to him,
And both of his brown cheeks
I will kiss!

 

See Song No. 246 of Bela Bartok, Hungarian Folk Music,
trans. M. D. Calvocoressi (London: Oxford University Press, 1931),
appendix p. 66, and text, p. 120.