I’m Going to Catch You Darida

What is your favorite Ingush song? I’d bet $5 it’s soon going to be this one.

Darida” is a traditional Ingush love song that, in its original form, is a conversation between a man and a woman he loves (and is “chasing.”) “Darida” means “la la la” in Chechen. In class we sing it with just as much bravado as you see in this video, albeit not with our best friends on a concrete platform in the middle of the mountains.

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