"My daughter, you mustn't have anything to do with anyone, either good or bad, for my heart is filled with sorrow."

Most of the poem is untranscribed and of obscure meaning; this is apparently a conversation between mother and daughter.
Translated by Albert B. Lord, in Bela Bartok and Albert B. Lord, Serbo-Croatian Folk Songs (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), 257.