Rumelaj

Traditional music from the Balkans

Category:

Music

Tags:

• macedonia
• tambura
• lautareasca
• rumelaj
• balkan
• folk
• traditional
• dance
• horo
• kolo
• hora
• xoros

[Voyage89]

any information's 'bout the lyrics ? :) thx in advance! very nice song!!

[arsene737]

@Voyage89

There seems to be a lot of confusion about that. As far as I know, the song is supposed to originally be a Macedonian rromani song. The language does not strike me as Macedonian so it could be rromani language. They could be:

Zetur minji maj mundra kurva men

Zetur minji maj mada mundra damere

Rume rume rumelaj hajde hajde hajde

Rume rume rumelaj hajde hajde hajde

I have no idea about the translation though. "Haide" in any case means "come on, let's go".

[arsene737]

@Voyage89

Alternatively, the lyrics have been proposed to be be Romanian (not rromani):

Seoca-mi inima Mîndra curva mea

Seoca-mi inima, mada Mîndrana mieri

Rume, Rume, Rumelaj Haide, haide, haide,

Rume, Rume, Rumelaj Haide, haide, haide.

[arsene737]

@arsene737

with the following translation:

You broke my heart My beautiful bitch

You broke my heart, Baby, Beautiful honey.

Oh, woman of Rumelia Come on (let's get together)

Oh, woman of Rumelia Come on.

However, being Romanian myself, I'm not sure this is accurate. There are words in there that I don't recognize (mada, rumelaj itself) but it could be some local dialect I suppose. In any case, the jury is still out on this one :)

[Amalthea13]

Thumbs up if Psychonaut 4 brought you here.

[erenkoyu]

I'm not sure but it's about the immigration of rumelaj in the 1st world war