Today you want to sing a traditional Lithuanian song. Yes, you do.
In the course of our Eastern European explorations we sang a lot of songs that are OLD. “Tureja Liepa” is a traditional Lithuanian song about a lime tree that suffers through a storm. The branches break off one by one…fun! In the original the singer pleas for one branch to remain so the cuckoo can roost in it. The singer then asks a mother who has nine daughters to leave one of them to be married. The tree in this song has nine branches, which makes sense when you know that the number nine was a magical number in ancient Lithuania. Sing along with “Tureja Liepa” in this video as we prepare the bride for her wedding.
