Shchedryk (song)

1916 Ukrainian song by Mykola Leontovych

"Shchedryk" (Щедрик, from Ukrainian: Щедрий вечiр, lit. 'Bountiful Evening') is a Ukrainian 'shchedrivka', or New Year celebration song, known in English as "The Little Swallow". The song tells a story of a swallow flying into a household at New Year to sing of the wealth that will come with the following spring. "Shchedryk" was sung during koliada on the night of 31 December, New Year's Eve in the Julian calendar (13 January in the Gregorian Calendar), known in Ukraine as Malanka.

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