Originally It Was About Selling Livestock.

The songs name is Shchedryk, better known as Carol of the Bells

Majorly different christianized lyrics in today's Western version. Same beautiful song though. I think this year the original Ukrainian folk version should be celebrated.

Originally a song for the New Year, the one in early Spring when the ewes start giving birth usually. Very much a more spring into summer feeling song.



Lyrics in English:

Bountiful evening, bountiful evening, a New Year's carol;
A little swallow flew into the household
and started to twitter,
to summon the master:
"Come out, come out, O master,
look at the sheep pen,
there the ewes have given birth
and the lambkins have been born
Your goods [livestock] are great,
you will have a lot of money, by selling them.
Your goods [livestock] are great,
you will have a lot of money, by selling them.
If not money, then chaff from all the grain you will harvest
you have a dark-eyebrowed beautiful wife."
Bountiful evening, bountiful evening, a New Year's carol,
A little swallow flew.