Name: Chervona Ruta English adaptation
Duration: 2 min 24 s
Channel: Ivasiuk. Eng.Trn. S Pasicznyk
Description: Volodymyr Ivasiuk song adapted translation into English. Available at iTunes via http://www.the-ukrainian.co.uk

Chervona Ruta English adaptation

Stepan Pasicznyk

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Volodymyr Ivasiuk song adapted translation into English. Available at iTunes via http://www.the-ukrainian.co.uk

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Stepan Pasicznyk

Folk Rock, Ukrainian dance music with the bass and drums pumped up!

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Song Info

Genre

Rock • Folk Rock

Charts

Peak #32

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Ivasiuk. Eng.Trn. S Pasicznyk

Rights

2007

Uploaded

January 20, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.2 MB • 128 kbps • 2:24

Story behind the song

Volodymyr Ivasiuk wanted to express his love of his native Ukraine in song. Ruta is Ukrainian for Rue, a green or yellow plant that according to Ukrainian folklore gives a red bloom on the stroke of midsummer night. It is said that anyone who graps the bloom at this moment can see hidden treasures. The song could therefore be seen as a metaphor  saying something like "Don't search for hidden treasures, we already have our treasure - our homeland,  Ukraine" It is probable that like many other composers and writers  in Soviet Ukraine , Ivasiuk had to use coded language to express himself to bypass Soviet editorial autorities. 
 MP3  at iTunes

Lyrics

Just admit it to me.
You’re controlling my feelings.
Though my heart was in pain
With your spell it is healing.
In the forest you knew
Of the  midsummer flower
That when kissed by the sun
Has a magical power.

Please don’t go searching 
For the red  bloom this evening
For the love that I have for you
Is true and free.
Just as the rivers
Of the mountains are givers
Of clean water;
You’ve given life to me.

As you visit  my dreams
In the green glades of summer 
You are coming to me
As you would to a lover
And you don’t need to give 
Me a flower or a potion
I shall always be here
You have all my devotion.

Please don’t go searching 
For the red bloom this evening
For the love that I have for you
Is true and free.
Just as the rivers
Of the mountains are givers
Of clean water;
You’ve given life to me.

©Volodymyr Ivasiuk 1949 -1979 RIP.
Composer, & pop icon in Soviet pre independence Ukraine. 
Murdered by the KGB for “being too Ukrainian”
Killers never brought to justice.

English adaptation / translation
Stepan “Ludwig” Pasicznyk 
England 24/07/2007
http//www.ukrainians.org.uk