A collection of folk songs from Russian Ukraine and Byelorussia,

Compiled and retold by Ritaliy Zaslavsky

Translated by Walter May
Illustrated by Svitlana Lopukhova

You can get the book here and here.

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Geese go winging… (Russian)
Gather round, friends… (Byelorussian)
I catch hold by hand… (Russian)
I’ve a friend… (Russian)
Lalla, lalla, lalla… (Ukrainian)
Well, what d’you like! (Ukrainian)
On the mountain skipped a nanny-goat… (Ukrainian)
Mad hare, mad hare… (Ukrainian)
In the dale blue mist is showing… (Russian)
Chree-chree! — From afar has flown here… (Byelorussian)
Lulla-lulla… (Byelorussian)
Oh, we want no woe… (Russian)
Morning sun — chicken run… (Ukrainian)
Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo dear… (Ukrainian)
See, dark clouds, hear, thunder roars… (Ukrainian)
A duck swims, paddle-paddling… (Russian)
Screech-Owl sat on a stack of hay… (Byelorussian)
Michael, that’s my friend… (Russian)
By the tracks, near footpaths too… (Ukrainian)
Kitty came back from the wood… (Byelorussian)
I’ve a jolly porker… (Russian)
Is a basket Pussy… (Byelorussian)
Lulla-lulla-lullaby… (Byelorussian)