"Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin" ( Bulgarian: Излел е Дельо хайдутин, lit. 'Delyo has become a hajduk') is a Bulgarian folk song from the central Rhodope Mountains about Delyo, a rebel leader who was active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. [1] The song is most famously sung by Valya Balkanska, a 1970 recording of which was included on the Golden Record carried on board the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes. [2] [3]
The first versions of the song were recorded by Georgi Chilingirov and Nadezhda Hvoyneva. Recordings of Valya Balkanska singing it were first made by the American scholar of Bulgarian folklore Martin Koenig in the late 1960s, along with other original Bulgarian folk songs. [4]
An instrumental arrangement appears on Wendy Carlos' album Beauty in the Beast as "A Woman's Song," with synthesized Indian and Western instrumentation in place of Bulgarian bagpipes.
Излел е Дельо Xайдутин ( Bulgarian Cyrillic) |
Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin ( Transliteration) |
Delyo the Hayduk has Gone Outside (English translation) |
Came out rebel Delyo (Alternative English translation) |
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Излел е Дельо хайдутин, |
Izlel ye Delyo haydutin, |
Delyo has become
hayduk, Gyulsume told Delyo: |
Came out rebel Delyo; Gulsum cautions; |