Had I Wings

Croatian folk song: easy to play, sounds

very russian!

Tab by Karol Henderson Harding 1994

*accent notes as indicated

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Chords used:

Am: x0x9-10-8, x02210, x07555

Dm? - 0xx997

E9 var?- 0x5453

HAD I WINGS/DAB BI IMAL PERJE

Had I wings my darling,

I would go a-flying.

*Ease my sorrows with your kisses

In your arms a-lying. (*repeat)

I would fly, my mother,

Straightway at your bidding.

*I would still my torments with you,

Childhood days reliving.*

Would I had some dear one,

One to stand beside me**

*Friendless in a far-off country

Youth I've wasted roving.*

Come you little swallow,

Take my lonely message,

Fly across the mountains with it

To my native village.

If there's none to read it,

None to share my sorrow,

Loneliness shall be my portion,

Emptiness my morrow.

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Dl bi imal perje

Kak le-te-tu f-tica

Sake vecher bi do-le-tel

K-tebi grilichizha

Da bi imal majku,

Koja me rodila

Sake vecher b-kynjoj ishel

Kaj be se spominal

Da bi imal dragu,

Ka bi me luj-bila,

Nej se moja lepa mla-dost

V stranj-skem zhalo-stila

Leti me ti f-tichek

Chrez visoke gore,

Odnesi mi zelen listek

V malo Medimorje.

Ali da ga ipak

Nemash komu dati

Nemam tu-zhen svoje tuje

Komu povedati.