MANDRAKE MAIDEN by David Nez

 



Rain is falling all around,
On the dusky fellow's fur hat.
Though forbidden is our love, I embrace my sweetheart,
Because I love her truly.

 

See Song No. 272 of Bela Bartok, Hungarian Folk Music,
trans. M. D. Calvocoressi (London: Oxford University Press, 1931),
appendix p. 73, and text, p. 175.