Thursday, January 19, 2017

Zdob şi Zdub: Om cu inimă de lemn

I don't drink but now might not be a bad time to take it up.  But I post the following for 3 reasons: the video is spectacular; the words have a timeliness to them; and most importantly, the Romanian is translatable at my speed.


Man with a heart of wood
No sign of love
My wine is the elixir
that grows flowers from logs

Man with a heart of stone
With no nation and no hearth
My best wine makes
Bread from a rock.

Rose wine flowing
Harvested late fall
My wine brings peace
Turns Hate to Love

Rose wine flowing
Give power to all that lives
Wine doesn't beat my head
Turns enemy to brother

Man with a heart of ice
Life without love
My wine warms you
From the sun awakens your heart

Man with a heart of Iron
Without the sun high in the sky
Wine is my master smith
It turns iron to gold

Rose wine flowing
Harvested late fall 
My wine brings peace
Turns Hate to Love

Rose wine flowing
Give power to all that lives
Wine doesn't beat my head
Turns enemy to brother

Rose wine flowing!
Harvested late fall!
Give power to all that lives!
Harvested late fall!

Rose wine flowing
Harvested late fall
My wine brings peace
Turns Hate to Love

Rose wine flowing
Give power to all that live
Wine doesn't beat my head
Turns enemy to brother

la-la la-la la-la la
la-la la la la la la la
His best Rose wine
la-la la-la la-la la
la-la la la la la la la
la-la la-la la-la la
la-la la-la la la la la
la-la la-la la-la la
la-la la la la la la la

(The legend at the end of the video reads: Iubește-ți aproapele ca pe tine însuți = Love your neighbor as yourself.)

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Bonus video department:

Here's a video with both Zdob şi Zdub and Loredana whom we met a few days ago (and who we'll see again).  Also imbibery-themed, I give you La Cârciuma de la Drum (At the Tavern by the Way)



The preceding, an updated version of the following:


(Also look for a version of the same by Electric Fence whom we first met in September.)

Cheers!  So long, America!

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