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Nationality: Slovenian
Age: 52
Occupation: grant writer
Residence: San Jose, CA
Date of Performance/Collection: 2014-04-10
Primary Language:
Other Language(s): Slovenian, English, German, Serbian
Nationality: Slovenian
Age: 52
Occupation: grant writer
Residence: San Jose, CA
Date of Performance/Collection: 2014-04-10
Primary Language:
Other Language(s): Slovenian, English, German, Serbian
“Marco skače, Marco skače
po zeleni trati,
Aj aj ajajaj
Po zeleni trati.”
Translation:
“Marco is jumping
over the green meadows
aj aj ajajaj
over the green meadows”
This is a traditional Slovenian nursery rhyme, one that I was raised listening to as my mother sang it to me as a child. She said that it was a song generally sung with many children who held hands and danced in circles. The informant has no information as to its origin or its meaning, though the reference to meadows suggests a more rural origin.