(The Canal overflowed in Bakonycsernye …)

Bakonycsernyen kiontot a kanalis,

Szeplanyokat mind elvitte az arviz,

Minden legeny fogja ki a magaet

Ne szeresse egyik a masikaet.

(The canal overflowed in Bakonycsernye,

It swept away all the pretty girls,

Let every young man catch a girl for himself,

Don't select one that belongs to someone else.)

Bakonycsernyen azt beszeltek a lanyok

Banyaszlegenyt nem visznek katonanak,

Mert a banyasz szenet fejt a hazanak,

Minden este csokot as a kislanynak

(In Bakonycsernye the girls are saying,

that lads who are miners are not conscripted as soldiers,

because they must mine the coal for the houses,

and every night give a kiss to a young girl.)

Bakonycsernyen nagy nap van a faluban,

Eskuvore keszolnek a templomban

Barna legeny csinos szoke lanyt vezet

Nem banja meg hogy banyaszlegenyt szeret.

(In Bakonycsernye the sun is very large,

they are preparing for a wedding in the church

A brown-haired handsome lad is leading a blond-haired girl,

She doesn't mind that she loves a lad who is a miner)

Bakonycsernye is a town/village of about 3,500 people in Fejer County near Zirc, Veszprem (Veszprem county) and Mor and Szekesfehervar in Fejer county. It is in the Eastern Bakony Mountain range. The Hungarian population there had declined after the Turkish war so the large landowning families invited people from Slovakia to immigrate and work on the land. Slovaks from Trencsin and

Nyitra counties immigrated. Let us keep in mind, these areas were Hungarian since the days of Arpad ~900AD (according to "A History of Slovakia" by Stanislav Kirschbam).

"Uj elo nepzene", that is "new living village music" follows:

A "new" Hungarian folk song written by someone in the Bakonycsernye Slovak Women's Chorus. My translations into English follow. (They won a gold medal in folk-singing and have received recognition their unique musical accompaniment: a male harmonica player. Most folk groups have furulyas or cimbaloms)