Green leaf of the healing flower,
Green leaf of the healing flower,
Do not put your trust in women,
Woman is the devil's sister,
Goes to bed, and ties up her head,
Till her husband is sound asleep,
Till her husband is sound asleep,
With another then makes sweet love!
See Song No. 555a (in the vocal part) and Song No. 430s (in the piano part)
of Bela Bartok, Rumanian Folk Music, vol. 2, Vocal Melodies, ed. Benjamin Suchoff
(The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1967), p. 605 and p. 532, respectively. Text No. 349,
corresponding to Song No. 555a, can be found in volume 3, Texts, 149.
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