As a butterfly did flutter by,
She did send her prayers to God:
"Send, oh God, the gentle rain,
Gentle rain to quench the thirsty soil, please, gentle rain.
To make the grass grow greener,
For when peacocks eat green grass,
Brighter plumage they soon will shed,
Green green grass for maids to gather up,
For young lads to steal away, for lads to steal away."

See Ex. 206 of Boris Kremenliev, Bulgarian-Macedonian Folk Music
(Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1952), 122. According to tradition,
in times of drought, usually during May and June, a young girl is dressed up with greenery,
symbolic of a butterfly. She goes from home to home dancing, while other young girls sing;
a member of the household comes out and sprinkles water, as does the hostess flour,
over the "butterfly's" head. In bigger cities, Roma now do the dancing.