| | Pelegeya's signature song is entitled ''Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo'' or ''Lovely it is to live, brothers, lovely'', made popular during the [[Second World War]]. It is the dying words of a [[Cossack]] chieftain on a riverbank, remembering his wife, his mother, and his horse after leading 40,000 men on into a bloody battle. | | Pelegeya's signature song is entitled ''Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo'' or ''Lovely it is to live, brothers, lovely'', made popular during the [[Second World War]]. It is the dying words of a [[Cossack]] chieftain on a riverbank, remembering his wife, his mother, and his horse after leading 40,000 men on into a bloody battle. |
| − | Another song taking the world by storm in 2021 is Pelegaya's rendition of ''Under the Willow'', a song written by a Russian officer in the early nineteenth century about a soldier mortally wounded under a willow tree, watching a black raven, an ominous sign of impending death, flying over his head. The dying warrior asks the raven to fly to his motherland and tell his father, mother and wife that they shouldn’t expect him to return.<ref>http://blog.nyfos.org/pelageya-sings-willow</ref> | + | Another song taking the world by storm in 2021 is Pelegaya's rendition of ''Under the Willow'', a song written by a Russian officer in the early nineteenth century about a soldier mortally wounded under a willow tree, watching a black raven, an ominous sign of impending death, flying over his head. He asks the raven to carry his bloodied sash home to his wife, freeing her from her promise to wait for him because he's found a new bride, death. And to tell his father, mother and wife that they shouldn’t expect him to return.<ref>http://blog.nyfos.org/pelageya-sings-willow</ref> |