Our version of the Ingush/Chechen folk song “Darida” gives us a chance to a song using all the kids names, pretend to “run” by patting our knees, and of course learn all the intricacies of the intertwined histories of Chechyna, North Ossetia and Ingushetia.
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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.
