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Lindsey Goodman www.LindseyGoodman.com
Judith Weir's Songs from the Exotic, "Sevdalino, my little one" and "In the lovely village of Nevesinje", for low voice and piano. Performed by the Chrysalis Duo of Lindsey Goodman, mezzo-soprano, and Robert Frankenberry, piano, on the inaugural concert of The Kananwha Forum 2.0, Kanawha United Presbyterian Church, Charleston, West Virginia, February 9th, 2014.

Sevdalino, my little one,
are you still at home, my sweetheart?
You took all my money away:
five thousand piastres,
Give me back a little money my sweetheart,
that I might buy a pair of trousers.
Sevdalino, my little one...

In the lovely village of Nevesinje,
Bey Lujibovic writes a letter
and sends it to the Rocky Piva,
into the hands of Bey Pivlyanahin:
"Listen you, Bey Pivlyanahin,
You bit right into my heart,
for you killed my brother. Ahi!
Come out you, I dare you to fight?
I give you three choices:
First, at the rocky Korita,
second on Trusina Hill,
the third, where ever we should meet by chance:
If you lack the courage to fight,
I will send you an embroidering frame and a distaff,
and moreover an Egyptian cotton reel with a boxwood spindle;
you may weave for me a shirt and a lacy apron."
When the letter reached Baya,
he understood the contents:
he reached for his inkwell,
and wrote the Bey an answer.