User:Alex Lapko/Spruce (song)

«Смерека» (Spruce) — is a Ukrainian song written in 1969 by Jakim Lubomir (Ukrainian:Любомир Яким). It was performed by many artists with small lyrics variations. The version of Mykola Hnatyuk (Ukrainian: Микола Гнатюк) became the most famous:

There is a hut at the end of the village.

A spruce outside peeks in the window

And there is a girl in the hut

But she is so far

Oh, spruce

Tell me, spruce

Why do you grow so far

My charming spruce

Come out to the lake, darling

I must see you

You fell into my heart

And captured my soul

The spring has already covered the Carpathian Mountains

The cranes have already returned

If only I could

To see my beloved