Rob Reacts to... "Hej, sokoły!" - Polish Folk Song

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  • First time listening to a Polish / Ukrainian folk song. A fantastic melody!
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  • @RobReacts1
    @RobReacts1  ปีที่แล้ว +11

    If you are enjoying my Polish Reaction Videos, why not go check out our vlog channel where we have visted poland!
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    • @hanstusk1731
      @hanstusk1731 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A tragic performance. One of the worst I've ever heard. This is the song of a broken man. He's lost everything and he doesn't care anymore. The original title is "Sorrow"!!!!! It's important to understand that it's laughter through tears. Originally, it was about longing for a girlfriend, a boy who is in a foreign land. Pole boy. Because it's a 100% Polish song. It was established around 1778 in POLAND! Ukraine was added later. Ukrainians stole this song in the 20th century. They translated it as folk...
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  • @carsonix78
    @carsonix78 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    I like your fascination about Poland. As a Pole - thank You.

    • @RobReacts1
      @RobReacts1  ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Cheers 😁

    • @konradbanys2239
      @konradbanys2239 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You should definitely get some kind of honorary polish citizenship

  • @markbielak5259
    @markbielak5259 ปีที่แล้ว +315

    Rob, this is a Polish song, composed by a Pole, it is not of Ukrainian or Cossack origins. Hey you, falcons!, original title Żal [1] -"Sorrow/Sadness/Longing" (also known as Żal za dziewczyna, (Longing for the girl left) then Żal za Ukrainą (Sorrow/Longing for the Ukraine) , Na zielonej Ukrainie, (In the green Ukraine) - Polish song composed by Maciej Kamieński (1734-1821)[1][2][3], creator of operas and vaudevilles, including the first Polish opera.
    In the original version, the song was only a sentimental story about the longing of a boy staying "in a strange place" for his beautiful-eyed girlfriend who remained in his "land" ("kraina"), but without specifying which country (kraina) it is about[8]. However, already in songbooks from the mid-nineteenth century, in addition to longing for a girl left behind in a distant country, there was also singing about longing for "green Ukraine", which inscribed the song in the popular trend of romantic fascination with "Kresy" (Borderlands)/including Ukraine, ( lost by Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -during its partition-to Russia in late 18th century), and the Cossacks, present in 19th century in Polish literature and music.
    The character of a borderland ballad is given to the song by a verse popularized in the 20th century, which explains that the girl and green Ukraine are bid farewell to a Uhlan or Cossack (depending on the version) who sets off on horseback "from Black Water", i.e. from the Black Sea, on a long journey to a foreign country.
    The oldest known version of the lyrics has no references to Ukraine or the refrain beginning with the words Hey, falcons
    The chorus beginning with Hey Falcons is a later addition[10][1]. The text of the refrain appears only in a scout songbook from around 1917.
    The ballad became popular at the beginning of the 20th century among Polish scouts and falconers, and later also among Polish soldiers, especially during the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1920[10]. It was then popularized by Polish soldiers in Ukraine, the text was translated into Ukrainian, and now it is treated as a "Ukrainian folk song"[19]. The song is also sung as a traditional piece in Belarusian[20], and recently became popular in Slovakia, Czechia, Lithuania and Canada. In Poland, it continues to be sung as a tourist, scout and military song, and now as a popular wedding song[11]. It's been also popularized in various historical dramas and other films

    • @dorotabarbowska2184
      @dorotabarbowska2184 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Impressive comment. Thank you for all the information and the way you have presented it. If I could I would give you three thumbs up.

    • @markbielak5259
      @markbielak5259 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@dorotabarbowska2184 Thank you. My pleasure. Credit to Polish wikipedia and some other sources

    • @PiotrJaser
      @PiotrJaser ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Nieznany jest autor tekstu, ale prawie na pewno był to polsko-ukraiński poeta. Nawiązanie do Kozaków i Ukrainy jest tu jednoznaczne. Myślę, że możemy się z Ukraińcami troszkę tym dziedzictwem podzielić, włos nam z głowy nie spadnie.

    • @markbielak5259
      @markbielak5259 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@PiotrJaser Piotrze, nalezy sie cieszyc ze utwor jest popularny zarowno w Polsce jak i na Ukrainie, i to do tego stopnia ze traktowany jest jako "swoj" ale nie ma potrzeby tworzyc fikcyjnej rzeczywistosci co do jego pochodzenia.
      Gwoli scislosci, wedlug znawcow tematu: Nie jest znany autor tekstu, lecz wiadomo, że libretta do utworów Kamieńskiego- a wiec tworcy tego utworu- pisali tacy poeci jak Franciszek Bohomolec, Wojciech Bogusławski, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz czy Hugo Kołłątaj[1].
      W przeszłości podawano jako autora pieśni Tomasza Padurę[4][5][6], polsko-ukraińskiego poetę i kompozytora żyjącego w XIX wieku. Ballada jednak nie znajduje się w żadnym z czterech zbiorów z utworami Padury. Również żaden znawca twórczości Padury nie potwierdza jego autorstwa pieśni[7]. Według innej opinii, również niepotwierdzonej, autorem tekstu miał był Józef Bohdan Zaleski[3], XIX-wieczny polski poeta, przedstawiciel "ukraińskiej szkoły" polskiego romantyzmu.

    • @markbielak5259
      @markbielak5259 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dsodragus4616 Nope..

  • @H0RNY_DR4G0N
    @H0RNY_DR4G0N ปีที่แล้ว +60

    When I'm drunk, I usually sing "Hej, sokoły", "Kniazia Jaremy Nawrócenie" and the polish version of "Spanish Ladies"

    • @supreme3376
      @supreme3376 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dammn especially Polish Weddings th-cam.com/video/AFSBCazKveM/w-d-xo.html

    • @Sandro_de_Vega
      @Sandro_de_Vega ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Every polish shanties are good.

    • @grzegorznowak3313
      @grzegorznowak3313 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Sandro_de_Vega try "Chłopcy z Botany Bay"

    • @marjolaine6274
      @marjolaine6274 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ja po pijanemu śpiewam Marsyliankę, taka naleciałość ze szkoły średniej. Ewentualnie jedną piosenkę Tonyego leung chiu-wai. Zależnie od stanu euforii lub pijackiej depresji.

  • @bobeczek01
    @bobeczek01 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    This and Lithuania (parts ) were considered regions of the Commonwealth, so obviously it's not about the countries as they stay today. Because after that period when Poland was partitioned lots of Great Polish literature was made and one that is considered a Polish national drama is Pan Tadeusz , and there he misses his homeland of Lithuania but he means the region, because he is Polish at heart

    • @marzenajaworska3663
      @marzenajaworska3663 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Exactly. 'Lithuania, my dear homeland, you are like health. How precious you are knows only the one who has lost you'. - This is how it starts (translated spontaneously by myself).

  • @nerilka9527
    @nerilka9527 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    There is one more aspect about this motive, very common in those old patriotic songs, when a young guy is saying goodbye to his girlfriend to fight in a war. In Polish every word has a gender and the word "Polska" is feminine ("Ukraina" also). I sometimes felt a bit odd refering my country as "it" when talking in English. What I mean is that I always felt about those stories like that this young men needs to choose between the two of them: the woman he loves and the country he loves. In some song I learned at school it was like: you're also Polish so you will understand that her independence is more important than our love. That's maybe just my interpretation, but that's how I was feeling about those stories being like a 'love triangle'.

  • @wuuemm
    @wuuemm ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Actually, the song is purely of Polish origin. In the second half of the XVIII century, then in XIX, Polish-Ukrainian or - better - Polish - Cossack conflicts were somewhat forgotten and Ukraine was a subject to a kind of fascination and longing for times where these nations had lived together within the European's largest state organism, the Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów).

  • @annamariagebicka4883
    @annamariagebicka4883 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    It is so nice that you are interested in Poland. ❤❤❤

  • @paulinarapicka
    @paulinarapicka ปีที่แล้ว +56

    He is living her because of a war, if I am not mistaken- Khmelnytsky Uprising ;) I personally love the version of this song from the movie: "Ogniem I Mieczem" ("With Fire and Sword" from 1999).
    Edit: Or any other war, there were many of them thru the years ;)

    • @jenniferharrison8915
      @jenniferharrison8915 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Too many wars! 😪

    • @jenniferharrison8915
      @jenniferharrison8915 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @MAGDALENA ŁUNIEWICZ I absolutely agree, live each day, and never ignore the small things! 🤗💐 I met a Polish lady at the supermarket a few months ago when she just suddenly started crying, so we sat and talked and even though she has been living safely here many years, the current war reminded her of her parents and grandparents suffering - the pain never goes away entirely, but every day is a new gift! 👍🫂

    • @Bear-Jew
      @Bear-Jew ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The version of this song from the movie: "Ogniem I Mieczem" is my favourite too.

    • @bernardawsu6976
      @bernardawsu6976 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      th-cam.com/video/6S9HU6sInCI/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Polishsongswithenglishsubtitles - song from the movie: "Ogniem i Mieczem"

  • @kletniak
    @kletniak ปีที่แล้ว +48

    This is about war, cause Ukraine it was border region between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ottoman Empire and Russian Tsardom, were been a lot of battles.

  • @kornik19872
    @kornik19872 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks for your video, I'm from Poland and learning with you English 🤗🤗

    • @RobReacts1
      @RobReacts1  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I am glad you are enjoying the videos!

  • @jolantaslowik837
    @jolantaslowik837 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We sang this song as students at horse rallies in Poland. It brings a tear to my eye when I hear it.
    Thank you for it.❤

  • @j.k.6200
    @j.k.6200 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This song is actually pretty old and has many different versions in many languages. Earliest known polish version comes from XVIII or XIX century, though author of text is unknown, while music is currently associated with composer Maciej Kamieński.

  • @SxVaNm345
    @SxVaNm345 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    There is a sizable Polish community here in Australia, great hardworking people with an amazing history and culture.

    • @RobReacts1
      @RobReacts1  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep same as the poles in the UK!

    • @sebastianseijeen7817
      @sebastianseijeen7817 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RobReacts1 You shuld listen to Jacek Kaczmarski our bard ... For example "Mury" or "Nasza Klasa" "Our class".

    • @jackers1
      @jackers1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sebastianseijeen7817 "Mury" to akurat L'ESTACA, mało kto o tym wie.... th-cam.com/video/o4g_Og3EiUM/w-d-xo.html

  • @TAMARARUFF1
    @TAMARARUFF1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is a Polish song.Is lot of Polish history attached with this era,Very touched and very emotional

  • @pmrock8672
    @pmrock8672 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Listen to "Dumka na dwa serca" - Edyta Górniak, Mieczysław Szcześniak. A song from the film "Ogniem i Mieczem", which by the way I also recommend you if you like this atmosphere.

  • @arcadiopolonia8720
    @arcadiopolonia8720 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I learnt that song when I was 12 or 13. Nowadays , my wife loves that song, inspite of that she understands a little as she is from Peru and she speaks very basic Polish.

  • @AspectPL
    @AspectPL ปีที่แล้ว +4

    With Poland you need to know that between 15th and 18th centuries it basically co-owned with Lithuania almost the entirety of Belarus and Ukraine. Many, many famous and influential polish nobles lived in the "kresy" (edges) of the Commonwealth and separate nationalities of ruthenians wasn't established back then, though they clearly had their own culture and ethnicity.

  • @jakubpietowski4795
    @jakubpietowski4795 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The chorus directs falcons to Ukraine, from my understanding. The line "avoid mountains, forests, valleys" encourages falcons to fly over the European plains. I really like the part where the song gets quiet and then the Cossack realises he will die because the song gets more and more desperate to direct falcons to fly to beautiful Ukraine.

    • @sytrostormlord3275
      @sytrostormlord3275 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      meh... avoid mountain, forest, valleys... cossacks should live, fight and (eventualy) die in their belowed steppes. For me it's clear that falcons = soldiers, or any other brave men, especialy in that time period and in this part of Europe...
      In other regions of Europe, you'd call brave man -> a lion, or another wild animal. In XVII-XVIII century Ukraine, falcon was the symbol of bravery.

  • @wer.3026
    @wer.3026 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Pierwszy raz słyszę tą piosenkę w takim wykonaniu. Naprawdę niesamowity śpiew na głosy 😯

    • @micha5876
      @micha5876 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Co ciekawe wykonuje to ukraiński zespół ze Lwowa "Pikardyjska Tercja" (Піккардійська терція)

    • @annawnuk3713
      @annawnuk3713 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@micha5876 Jeżeli to śpiewają nie Polacy... Super wymowa. Trochę miękko śpiewają . Dzięki za dopełnienie 👍👍

  • @eeMaa88
    @eeMaa88 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My heart is squeezed as at family gatherings me and my 15 cousins always took our nan to dance... she was in the middle circle and we swapped so each of us could dance with her to her fav song❤😢

  • @aurorafox1283
    @aurorafox1283 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I loved this song as a kid and always sang it on karaoke with my mom

  • @marcinduman2651
    @marcinduman2651 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As for the Cossack leaving, historically, Cossacks were meant to keep Tatars at bay. It was busy lifestyle.
    I always considered the Falcons were the Cossacks, and the Skylark being the Girl (and the "Bell" as well) - dunno why the latter.
    Reading the lyrics, kinda makes me wonder now for some reason... from the last verse, you can take it as the Girl might be dead: "pochowajcie przy niej". Which when you actually put that into perspective... it makes total sense. The Girl passed away so he goes into one of the raids, or maybe even straight up war or uprisings. He loved Her, so He misses Her. There's many women all over the world, but for him She's the only one. And then the third one speaks of sorrow, sorrow for never seeing again that Girl, your loved one.
    But the song is often sung differently, in a happier manner, so you don't think about something like that, and it's better to keep it that way IMO :D
    Also, Cossacks, just like the falcons are the rulers of the steppes, proud and free. (falcons being apex predators)
    P.S. Sorry for the wall of text

  • @imropietruszka
    @imropietruszka ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Rob, war as our history tells us, has always been a part of our lives... as it probably will be now. Niech żyje Polska! Слава Україні! Жыве Беларусь!

  • @perpanismok396
    @perpanismok396 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I see that in the comments butza whether it's a Polish or Ukrainian song. Ukrainians can recognize it and translate it into their language and that's ok, it's about Ukraine. But that doesn't mean it's not a Polish song, it's part of our folklore and our musical tradition, we sing it at summer camps, various camps, in schools at bonfires or at weddings. ,,Hey, Sokoły" a Polish song composed by Maciej Kamieński (1734-1821) the creator of operas and vaudevilles. That's it

    • @misiat.6460
      @misiat.6460 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Especialy when part what belongs today to Ukraine was Polish territory. Even some polish magnates had Ukrainian blood in their veins.

    • @zavoreq6166
      @zavoreq6166 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@misiat.6460 Ukraine when it came under polish rule(not directly but it was a moment that closen the ties betwwen the kingdom of poland and the grand duchy of lithuania by having the same ruler but still seperate armies and currencies while lifting the tariffs on products from both cuntries) so at the moment of the wedding of Wladyslaw Jagiello with Jadwiga Andegaweńska Ukraine was steppes mainly inhabited by cossacks the poles and the lithuanins kinda colonized the area and form mixing of the languages and betwen cossacks and other people inhabiting the area formerlly known as red ruthenia created the ukraininans we know today as well as the name itself
      PS during after the union became something we in polish call realna=real both lithuania nad poland unified int to the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth and poland was called the crown(korona) and the grand duchy of lithuania was called pursuit=crudly translated polish word pogoń which is the name of the crest of lithuania nad belarus as well as a quite a few cities in area called podlasie
      upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Coat_of_arms_of_Lithuania.svg/800px-Coat_of_arms_of_Lithuania.svg.png - link to the crest of lithuania

    • @misiat.6460
      @misiat.6460 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Zavoreq Why are you explaing that to me when my nick clearly shows I'm Pole?

    • @perpanismok396
      @perpanismok396 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@misiat.6460 it doesn't so much explain to you as it complements what you start, moreover, the fact that someone has a Polish nickname means nothing you can't nobody knows everything. And he probably gave this history lesson not for you, but for someone else who will read it and can learn something, this is an extension to what you wrote that Ukraine was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

  • @henrykjaniuk6689
    @henrykjaniuk6689 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Look Rob, there are only birds in this song. Sokół (a falcon) and "skowronek - skylark". So, you have masculinum "falcons" - the most efficient predatorr in the air, in bird's World;, and most soft, kindly, springtime Singer, young, beutifull, vergin, girl - skylark.
    P.s. for us the Poles, was something strange, that we made a car of Schnellbahn in Berlin, in communist germany, in 1986 by singing this song. The car was moving " na prawo, na lewo, w górę i w dół ". A enerdowcy (Niemcy z DDR) patrzyli na nas i nic nie rozumieli. My spiewaliśmy, wg nich, po rosyjsku polską pieśń o tęsknocie za Ukrainą. ( sic!) Niemcy cały czas są w ciemnej dupie ..... And that is the reason, that we preveil and they lose.

  • @sylwiawajda9866
    @sylwiawajda9866 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Rob, you catches Polish words and phrases quite easily. You've got talent👍

    • @RobReacts1
      @RobReacts1  ปีที่แล้ว

      The words don't stick in my head unfortunately

    • @misiat.6460
      @misiat.6460 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@RobReacts1 Use cotton balls to keep them in.

  • @TheEneasz
    @TheEneasz ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This song has a symbolic meaning for Poles. At the end of the 19th century, the text was added to the stanza: regret for Ukraine. All of western Ukraine is former Poland. Former Poland included Lithuania, today's Latvia, Estonia, and in the 16th and 17th centuries Sweden. In the ballad there is a motif of a girl who is an allegory of Ukraine. Thus, Poles express regret for the loss of Ukraine. After World War II, on Stalin's orders, the borders of Poland were changed. Poles were forcibly displaced from their homes and resettled from the borderlands to the so-called Recovered Territories.

    • @sieciobywatel
      @sieciobywatel ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Commonwealth was not Poland. It was an union of two countries and multiple nations. Let alone Sweden was never part of Poland.
      Stop spreading misinformation, please.

    • @ChillDudelD
      @ChillDudelD ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@sieciobywatel True, Lithuania was not part of Poland, except for Wilno in the 20th century, but most of current Ukraine was part of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

    • @TheEneasz
      @TheEneasz ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sieciobywatel Firstly, the Lithuanians made a union with the Poles because they had no other choice. The choice was simple, either union or attrition by a more powerful neighbor. Let's be straight. Lithuania became part of Poland and was neutralized. Secondly, the kings of Poland from the Vasa dynasty were also kings of Sweden. However, the uncle of the Polish king Sigismund III Vasa initiated a civil war to put him on the throne. This was the beginning of the Polish-Swedish wars. Poland was then a real regional power, and Sweden merely a cluster of fishing villages.

    • @Darwidx
      @Darwidx ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@sieciobywatel He just skipped existence of union, both Lithuania and Sweden was in some time under Union with Poland.

    • @TheEneasz
      @TheEneasz ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Darwidx Some things are obvious, so there is no need to write about them.

  • @annawnuk3713
    @annawnuk3713 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nasza historia, dzieje, były dość mocno splecione w przeszłości. Kiedyś Królestwo Polskie było od morza do morza. To procentuje w dzisiejszych czasach dość pozytywnie. Pozdrawiam 👍👍🇵🇱💕

    • @ANIANIJA999
      @ANIANIJA999 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      nie Królestwo Polskie a Rzeczpospolita. Krolestwo Polskie to było mniej więcej terytoriu, obecnej Polski bez śląska , Pomorza i Prus

    • @krzysztofdobrzycki4276
      @krzysztofdobrzycki4276 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ANIANIJA999Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów. Później Litwini nie radząc sobie z Tatarami oddali Ruś Koronie.

  • @SxVaNm345
    @SxVaNm345 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    By the way Rob, did you know that the Italian anthem has these lines in their national anthem referencing Poles? - "The mercenary swords, they're feeble reeds. The Austrian eagle has already lost its plumes. The blood of Italy and Poland it drank, along with the Cossacks, but their blood burnt its heart."

    • @nerilka9527
      @nerilka9527 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And Polish national anthem is saying about returning "from Italian land to Poland".

    • @Ed123
      @Ed123 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nerilka9527 That is correct.

  • @kazsawczak6910
    @kazsawczak6910 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In the past, even now young brave, reckless men were called falcons as they were ready to dive into a fight and war.

  • @aleksandrab7768
    @aleksandrab7768 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It was a popular song of Polish scouts in the early 20th century. Polish scouting was closely associated with the "Sokół" Gymnastic Society operating in the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. "Sokół" clubs operated all over Poland. Also in Lviv there was a club "Sokół". Polish scouts took part in the fight to regain Poland's independence. This song was later translated into Ukrainian.

  • @MegaEghi
    @MegaEghi ปีที่แล้ว +9

    th-cam.com/video/10Ha80EgaB0/w-d-xo.html She perfectly mixes Polish and Ukrainian language... The best cover in my opinion. I was surprised how close these languages are. 🙂

  • @FloyDJode
    @FloyDJode 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    God bless his children for enjoying eachother.

  • @kml8732
    @kml8732 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is pure polish song composed by Maciej Kamieński in XVIII century. Formerly know as "Żal"(grief/regret)

  • @damiangawronek882
    @damiangawronek882 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    yeah! Its fantastic polish song. This song more say, and show abouth us history. Its realy realy true song. Every time live. Now time everybody use rock version, but folclor its nice. I from Poland:)
    I like your canal. Its fantastic work, more facts and true .Very very thanks you. And sorry for my english:). Good yob! Fantastc ambasador polish history and facts. To day is very hard looking true. Nice :)

  • @sytrostormlord3275
    @sytrostormlord3275 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Falcons were birds trained and used for hunting. Calling a man by the name of a falcon by a girl would mean that see admires him both as a man, and as a soldier... the chorus here is referencing soldiers... brave falcons going to war, to fight for their country. Falcon could also be a term used by soldiers to their comrades.

  • @MMMM-hc7cd
    @MMMM-hc7cd ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Rob you mast see movie “ with fire and sword” that movie explain a lot of polish Ukrainian relations at that time

  • @charonboat6394
    @charonboat6394 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sokół (falcon) was the name used for daring young horsmen.

  • @cringetea7702
    @cringetea7702 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love how you are so interested about Poland ❤

  • @Kuzcmada
    @Kuzcmada ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Falcon is old call of brave men. Like daredevil. Swift and sharp like skilled warrior.

  • @SmartDuck
    @SmartDuck 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love this song! Beautiful country’s Poland and Ukraine ❤️❤️

  • @domelxyz4181
    @domelxyz4181 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Strange version but this one of the songs known by simply everyone in PL

  • @TheJinua
    @TheJinua ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If i recall correctly the band performing is Belarussian .

  • @marekadamkiewicz3177
    @marekadamkiewicz3177 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's a much beloved song. Don't know if a staple for drunks, they'd probably sing anything rousing as this song is. Poland had territorial aspirational toward Ukraine. Up to 1939,Lviv was a Polish city called lwów. So Ukraine stands for those territories in terms of appropriating them. The song is a favorite of Polish aristocracy called szlachta. Poland was ruled by the szlachta up to the end of WW2 when the commies took over. It's authors are probably aristocratic. The Szlachta was decimated by the Germans and the Russians during the war not mentioning the commies during their political take over under cover of the war. Nowadays this song is mostly sung by boy scouts around a camp fire. That's how a I learned it. You're right about it being about going to war. The Cossacks were a military faction. Who else would leave his girlfriend in green Ukraine (part of Poland) than a soldier going to war?

  • @annaowczarzak8151
    @annaowczarzak8151 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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  • @themediator8709
    @themediator8709 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It makes me wonder if you have seen the polish movie "With fire and sword"? The movie is what I think about when I hear this song :)

  • @mateuszstolarek6575
    @mateuszstolarek6575 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do you know that almoust all of the party when you drink a lot always end up singing this song very often

  • @pawwrob4843
    @pawwrob4843 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tę piosenkę najlepiej obrazuję polski film historyczny na podstawie powieści Henryka Sienkiewicza ,,Ogniem i mieczem ''w reżyseri Jerzego Hoffmana z 1999r. polecam, była to pierwsza cząść trylogii tego autora choć ze względów politycznych nakręcona jako ostatnia dopiero po upatku komunizmu. 1.,,Ogniem i mieczem''99r. 2.,,Potop''74r. 3.,,Pan Wołodyjowski''69r.

  • @They_Void
    @They_Void ปีที่แล้ว +1

    as much as I like that version, "Hej, sokoly! - Biesiada Z tina" is the one I love the most, I remember when I was a kid every Sunday my mom would dance with me to it, and those are some of the best times in my childhood, its much more, how to say it, happy? its literally "Hey Falcons! - ravel with Tina" and its not in the same style, its very different to what you could hear here, also I'm not sure when it was make but as the cd I have is probably older than me it has to be quite old

  • @gooogoo2137
    @gooogoo2137 ปีที่แล้ว

    man i forgot about this song, brings back memories with a remake version

  • @martawieszczycka2364
    @martawieszczycka2364 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If a random group of Poles suddenly has to sing something together, they will almost certainly sing "Hej Sokoły" :)
    With a guitar by the fire, on trips, at weddings, anywhere where people sing together.
    I think it's very nice that the most popular Polish song is about a young Ukrainian patriot who loves his country - Ukraine and his Ukrainian girlfriend. Especially nowadays it's nice.

    • @RobReacts1
      @RobReacts1  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's a cracking song to be fair

  • @MayaTheDecemberGirl
    @MayaTheDecemberGirl 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You should listen to some Polish songs that were written and were sang by insurgents during the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. And now, every year - on 1 August, which is the day when the Uprising started - in the evening there is a concert during which the people in Warsaw gather together and sing these beatiful songs together with the artists, and together for instance with Polish President who also comes there to sing with people. And these songs, sang by people in Warsaw after so many years, is a very touching event. You have tears in your eyes. And on the screen are shown in the same time original films from the Uprising. I think there are definitely some films in Internet from these concerts in some lastvtears.

  • @r3belianto514
    @r3belianto514 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You need to check this version "The Dreadnoughts - Hej Sokoły (Zal za Ukraina)" ;)

  • @micha5876
    @micha5876 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's interesting that this performance of this song is made by ukrainian band "Піккардійська терція" (Pikkardiyska Tertsiya/Pikardyjska Tercja).

  • @Pablo123.
    @Pablo123. ปีที่แล้ว

    i love this song, my heart beats faster when i hear it

  • @Ste6ve
    @Ste6ve ปีที่แล้ว

    Great channel!

  • @lucjanchochlik
    @lucjanchochlik ปีที่แล้ว +1

    To ogień, W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie
    I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.

  • @jenniferharrison8915
    @jenniferharrison8915 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I have heard a lot of Ukrainian songs and music from my Ukraine Facebook friends, I love to hear them and all the Cossack history - very proud and creative people! This is very similar, and so are their historic costumes, the people's stick together here in Australia like they do in Europe! They believe death is not the end! 🫂 Yes Rob, you can sing! 🤗👏

    • @kml8732
      @kml8732 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It is Polish song about Ukraine, not Ukrainian song.

    • @jenniferharrison8915
      @jenniferharrison8915 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kml8732 Yes, I know! I meant that I have actually heard very "similar" music on Ukrainian soldiers video footage! 😊

    • @RobReacts1
      @RobReacts1  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But there is a Ukrainian version Wikipedia says

    • @kml8732
      @kml8732 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ​@@RobReacts1 It was later translated into Ukrainian language. The song itself was written by Polish opera writer Maciej Kamieński (1734-1821).

    • @jenniferharrison8915
      @jenniferharrison8915 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RobReacts1 Yes, I heard the Ukrainian version, it's a different tempo! This is similar to Red Kalinga, or Chervona Kalyna! Wonderful melody and voices! I hear that this song was even performed by a Columbian band in Krakow one day (Los Iankovers)! Very popular!

  • @drzewowit
    @drzewowit ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Originally Cossacks where an autonomous force employed by Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth mostly to protect her SE border, but also in different wars (often against Russia). It is why the Cossack needed to leave his girlfriend and expected not to live to see her again.

  • @karolrej1109
    @karolrej1109 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dumka na dwa serca

  • @user-kt8xp1lr4c
    @user-kt8xp1lr4c ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a strange man! He asks: "Why is the Cossack saying goodbye to the girl? Where is he going?" And where else can a Cossack go? To war, of course. A Cossack is not just a Ukrainian, he is a warrior, he fights!

    • @RobReacts1
      @RobReacts1  ปีที่แล้ว

      I didnt know a cossack was specifically a soldier

    • @user-kt8xp1lr4c
      @user-kt8xp1lr4c ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RobReacts1, sorry, I thought you know... Cossacks are such a social state in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was engaged in war. There are several nuances in the definition of this social state that introduce confusion. However, it must be said that this is clearly a noblemen, the free men who could carry and use weapons and not pay taxes. In contrast to peasants, artisans, merchants and townspeople etc. These are the lower aristocracy of Medieval Ukraine, the warriors; the princely or boyar's warbands.

  • @rademenes1754
    @rademenes1754 ปีที่แล้ว

    As far as I know, the piece was written during the Battle of Khotyn, in which the Polish-Lithuanian Union, which also included Ukraine, clashed with the Cossack and Tatar Hordes and with Turkey.

    • @PUARockstar
      @PUARockstar 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In the battle of Khotyn Cossacks were at Commonwealth side

  • @ptysiek85
    @ptysiek85 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello Rob! Rób to co robisz. Robisz dobrą robotę. ;)

    • @RobReacts1
      @RobReacts1  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you

  • @paxvera5199
    @paxvera5199 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you.

  • @floriandorian9468
    @floriandorian9468 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should listen to some Jacek Kaczmarski songs, like ,,Kniazia Jaremy Nawrócenie" or ,,Epitafium dla Wysockiego" but second one is a bit long and harder to understand.

  • @malgorzatalenort8888
    @malgorzatalenort8888 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am now so... thank you guys it's still alavie

  • @Antares-mo6xh
    @Antares-mo6xh ปีที่แล้ว +9

    1:05 Historically Poland and Ukraine were one big country.

  • @123pik1
    @123pik1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cossacks were one of many ethnic groups in Poland before partitions
    They as a group were treated like sth above peasant but not equal to richer nobility
    They had autonomy and when they raised against Poland or Russia they mostly weren't fighting for independence but for some extra rights
    Big part of them was used as soldiers in armies of Poland and Russia

  • @pawemazurkiewicz8641
    @pawemazurkiewicz8641 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rob this song appears mainly in "With Fire and sword" that means "Ogniem i mieczem" I recommend this movie directed by Jerzy Hofmann

  • @karollatocha3244
    @karollatocha3244 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Falcons were commonly sign of fortunate soldiers (brave , smart and those who come back to home), its not chanting to falcons but to themselves and its obviously about soldier, becouse there's been many wars + fighting with tatars (remnants of mongol empire - steppe hordes)

  • @anuskas9244
    @anuskas9244 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    2:22 Kozak leaves Ukraine and his girlfriend because he is going to fight in the war. The text was written by a Polish-Ukrainian poet and sung during the war with the Bolsheviks, in 1919-1921, when the Polish and Ukrainian armies were allies

    • @janhusar9105
      @janhusar9105 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Anuś Kaś...
      Bzdura . Pieśń napisana przez Polaka zakochanego w ukrainie....Nie państwie a regionie pogranicznym zwanym KRESAMI lub inaczej u...krainą leżącą w Rzeczypospolitej na pograniczu.
      " Ukrainę" mamy także na Zachodzie.

    • @anuskas9244
      @anuskas9244 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@janhusar9105 Pieśń napisana przez Tymko Padurę, chodzi mi o tekst. Wszędzie jest informacja, że to polsko ukraiński poeta. I od zawsze tak myślałam, bo to raczej prawda. Odpowiadam na pytanie czemu Kozak opuszcza Ukrainę więc chyba ta odpowiedź jest poprawna

    • @janhusar9105
      @janhusar9105 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@anuskas9244
      pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hej,_soko%C5%82y
      Wesołych świąt.
      Ps. To Ukraińcy przypisują również sobie tę pieśń.
      Nie rozumiejąc znaczenia określenia geograficznego pogranicza wschodniej Rzeczpospolitej inaczej ukraina , kresy. Myśląc , że mowa o Ukrainie czy Ukraińcach.
      I gdzie tu " kozak"?

    • @janhusar9105
      @janhusar9105 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anuskas9244
      Wysłałem Ci link. Poczytaj do końca.

    • @anuskas9244
      @anuskas9244 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@janhusar9105 Rob zapytał czemu Kozak opuszcza Ukrainę i dziewczynę, którą kochał. Odpowiedziałam więc, że jedzie na wojnę a pieśń była popularna w okresie wojny z bolszewikami kiedy Polska i Ukraina były sojusznikami a co do autorów nie ma sensu się spierać , różne źródła różnie podają

  • @TomikoPL
    @TomikoPL ปีที่แล้ว

    You've probably noticed the letter representing the sound which The Knights Who Say "Ń" say.

  • @marysiachucky5546
    @marysiachucky5546 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should totally see „With the Fire and Sword” and „the Deluge”! They are such a great part of Polish culture, the stories are beautiful and I really am curious are you #teamSkrzetuski or #teamBohun!

  • @syriusz1615
    @syriusz1615 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    link to the version sung by a Ukrainian woman in Ukrainian and Polish th-cam.com/video/10Ha80EgaB0/w-d-xo.html
    and version in 7 languages th-cam.com/video/tsExJIbKueQ/w-d-xo.html

  • @forexscalping_pl
    @forexscalping_pl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think that can be interested for you topic how Dzikie Pola and cossacs apear in XV-XVI. This will give you the feeling why so many topics from current Ukraine are in Polish culture.

  • @danielchudini77
    @danielchudini77 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love ❤🇵🇱🇨🇴❤

  • @edytak1973
    @edytak1973 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oj tam "Hej, sokoły!"! Posłuchaj "Dumka na dwa serca" z Edytą Górniak i Mietkiem Szcześniak!!! th-cam.com/video/wcXAKhwsl6o/w-d-xo.html

  • @alexanderbielinski1687
    @alexanderbielinski1687 ปีที่แล้ว

    SEE THE FILM " OGNIEM I MIECZEM" WITH PROPER ENGLISH SUBTITLES TO FEEL THE SPIRIT, AND UNDERSTAND THE POLISH- UKRAINIAN SOUL.

  • @rafal5389
    @rafal5389 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Falcon symbolises freedom and independence. The song is a tribute to Ukraine (Ukraine used to be part of The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). Today, Poland and Ukraine although separate, stay united!

    • @hanstusk1731
      @hanstusk1731 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you sick? Wha a shit!

  • @krzysztofkrupa4755
    @krzysztofkrupa4755 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rob posłuchaj sobie jak żołnierze Ukraińscy śpiewają najstarszą polską pieśni. Pieśń ta była śpiewana przez Polskie Wojska podczas Wielkiej bitwy pod Grunwaldem 15 lipca 1410 roku z zakonem Krzyżackim.

  • @wuuemm
    @wuuemm ปีที่แล้ว

    Your interpretation is correct.

  • @sashole1
    @sashole1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm a bona fide Ukrainian, I love this song in both Polish and Ukrainian, and I have no qualms about acknowledging that this is a Polish song written by a Polish composer.
    However... there is a wonderful 250 years old Ukrainian folk song "Yikhav kozak za Dunai":
    th-cam.com/video/7iT54oRUUz0/w-d-xo.html
    Give it a listen. Its meter, rhythm, melody, character, and largely even lyrics are virtually identical to "Hej, Sokoly!"
    I have a hard time thinking that it's a pure coincidence.

  • @tomek21051981
    @tomek21051981 ปีที่แล้ว

    Falcon means journey here and avoiding all obstacles to safely come back home to the "nest" =family.

  • @TigerSharkTheSeawing
    @TigerSharkTheSeawing ปีที่แล้ว

    I like your videos, you're officially Polish-approved

    • @RobReacts1
      @RobReacts1  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      haha Thanks Iza!

  • @pawellewap9179
    @pawellewap9179 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a very heavy and difficult topic in the history of Poles and Ukrainians. Both nations have their versions of a common history regarding the Cossack uprisings, but also subsequent wars, blood spilled and mutual guilt. Half of my family comes from today's Ukraine, specifically near Lviv, but at the time of Putin's attack on Ukraine, for most Poles, the difficult history found its way where it should have, i.e. in books, and we were able to show that we can forgive and ask for forgiveness where we have sinned. I think this is an important matter and despite obvious differences, both nations will finally start living as brothers, since our languages ​​are so similar and hatred towards Russia, which is still striving to become a superpower over our dead bodies, unites us like nothing else. I also recommend you a contemporary song from a film based on the history of those times, from the song you listened to "With Fire and Sword" titled "Dumka na dwa serca" with English subtitles: th-cam.com/video/6S9HU6sInCI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rqcr0j7Wt9voKtvh

  • @robertgrabowski
    @robertgrabowski ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Other song version: AnnaLu & Shavez th-cam.com/video/e1AmVd8OLd0/w-d-xo.html
    This is the best. (-:

  • @Krokmaniak
    @Krokmaniak ปีที่แล้ว

    Telling wether it's Polish or Ukrainian song is difficult because Ukraine was part of Poland. Word Ukraina is literally old polish for borderlands. This makes both answers correct. What gives answer "It's polish song" more merit is fact that author (Maciej Kamieński) wasn't Ruthenian (That was before Ruthenians were distinctly devided between Ukrainians, Belarusians etc) but Slovakian Pole living in Warsaw.

  • @kamilaj.9358
    @kamilaj.9358 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should listen "Rota"

  • @34aniaj
    @34aniaj ปีที่แล้ว

    In its original version, the song was merely a sentimental tale of a boy's longing while staying 'in a foreign land' for his beautiful-eyed girlfriend who remained in his 'homeland,' without specifying which country. However, in songbooks from the mid-19th century, in addition to the longing for the girl left behind in a distant land, there were also verses sung about longing 'for the green Ukraine,' aligning the song with the then-current trend of romantic fascination with Ukraine and the Cossacks, present in Polish literature and music.
    The character of a borderland ballad is given to the song by a verse popularized in the 20th century, which explains that it is a Cossack or Ulan (depending on the version) who bids farewell to the girl and the green Ukraine, embarking on a distant journey to a foreign country, riding from 'the Black Water,' meaning from the Black Sea.

  • @marjolaine6274
    @marjolaine6274 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ta piosenka ma w sobie moc.

  • @patrycjakonieczna
    @patrycjakonieczna ปีที่แล้ว

    This folk song reminds me of the great times when Poland was a big and powerful country. We were badasses, very brave, courageous and proud of themselves... Because we could work together in spite of differences. Because we wanted to cooperate.
    Nowadays patriotism is a quite controversial statement associated with hooligans who buy merch with Polish national symbols.
    That hurts... 🤧
    If you love Poland, you must hate other nationalities which is not a true. You can't be proud of work your ancestors done because half of Poles have a problem with themselves.
    May be for most the patriotism is just a bunch of words or just a tradition to keep on cause they don't feel it.
    Polish society change much since 1939. We are not the same.
    The problem is we forget our independent strong character to copying anything West. Because some people are ashamed of their roots. Because they hate Church, Polish tradition. Because they feel themselves "European" in modern terms which is to fight off tradition.
    Sorry for these sad remarks but I am allergic to those who act cosmopolitans while don't respect their own roots. I don't understand why they want me to respect other cultures and be ashamed of my own.

  • @emisty1852
    @emisty1852 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This song is from 1774 when Ukraine was Polish teritory.

  • @klau5z
    @klau5z ปีที่แล้ว

    Listen to this version 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 Гей, соколи! / Hej, sokoły! - Ukrainian/Polish folk song th-cam.com/video/10Ha80EgaB0/w-d-xo.html

  • @joannazywotko7753
    @joannazywotko7753 ปีที่แล้ว

    This song is uniting both nations. And we are so similar

  • @s.oliwiaedyta4372
    @s.oliwiaedyta4372 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We have a lot things with Ukrainę or Lithuania because some part od these land was Poland on history...

  • @ewakarolina75
    @ewakarolina75 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm very curious what you think about this song.th-cam.com/video/npPaN-n7gCk/w-d-xo.html A new day has dawned
    There's melancholy in my soul again
    I stand on my head to fly to the clouds
    Damn it, I'm falling down again
    Oh my dearest, it's time for me
    The metropolis torments and torments us
    I know it's hard to love a girl like me
    So it's easier to leave, well
    Who did not sprinkle bread with tears?
    This one won't have an appetite
    Every drop is a sea for my boat
    hip hip hooray!
    Good God gave me wings
    So I fly to the light like a moth
    Eagle tears will heal my sorrows
    hip hip hooray!
    hip hip hooray!
    My love, look
    At the pines as they climb upwards
    Although my height is impressive
    I have a home up there in the sky
    And appearances lose you
    And you trust my small stature
    I bear the burden of my loss constantly
    And today I will join the crows
    Who did not sprinkle bread with tears?
    This one won't have an appetite
    Every drop is a sea for my boat
    hip hip hooray!
    Good God gave me wings
    So I fly to the light like a moth
    Eagle tears will heal my sorrows
    hip hip hooray!
    hip hip hooray!
    Over and over
    It's time to run away again
    I won't be afraid
    It's time
    Who did not sprinkle bread with tears?
    This one won't have an appetite
    Every drop is a sea for my boat
    hip hip hooray!
    Good God gave me wings
    So I fly to the light like a moth
    Eagle tears will heal my sorrows
    hip hip hooray!
    hip hip hooray!
    Tekst pochodzi z www.tekstowo.pl/piosenka,sanah,hip_hip_hura.html

  • @supreme3376
    @supreme3376 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Falcon is symbol Ukraine you need to see ("With Fire and Sword")

  • @marcelisujecki2362
    @marcelisujecki2362 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cossacks can be defined briefly - whoever was their enemy did not live long. The Cossacks are a collection of the biggest and toughest killers that the land in that area bore. All the time they dealt with almost nothing but war. They only feared the commander and God (in that order). They settled on the border of Poland, the Ottoman Empire, the Mongol Empire, and the Duchy of Muscovy (later called Russia). So they had to be tough to survive.

  • @porzeczkaxx4838
    @porzeczkaxx4838 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You need to see "szara piechota" its very good song from war times