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Їхав козак за Дунай (Cossack rode beyond Danube) - Ukrainian folk song by A. Rudenko

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Їхав козак за Дунай. Анатолій Руденко та фольклорний гурт "Київ".

Yikhav kozak za Dunay (Cossack rode beyond the Danube) - Ukrainian folk song by Anatolij Rudenko and folk band "Kyiv" (Ukraine).
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Regarding song "Cossack rode beyond Danube" I need to explain you. In Ukrainian culture Danube is mystical river that separates two worlds (our reality, life and afterlife, life after death). If one says "to cross Danube" means "to die", to "go to the other world". It is not the real river that is meant with Danube in Ukrainian folk songs but this mystic river between that stands before life and death. To drink water from this river (Danube) it means to forget everything. There are many folk and love songs with this mystic Danube river in Ukrainian culture. So is the meaning in that song...Cossack was riding to face death in battle, with the risk to die and never to return.

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  • Як завжди - пісня,виконання,відеорядок - чудово! Дякую!

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