The Cheated Bride (The Bride Went Out)

The bride went out, went out, ; Into the middle of the forest, ; Into the middle of the forest, ; Into its thicket too. ; ; The soldier walked there, ; He goes to the bride for a kiss, ; The bride turns back, ; He leans towards the soldier. ; ; He draws his shining sword, ; He cuts off the soldier's neck. ; He puts on his clothes, ; He sits on the soldier's horse. ; ; He jumps into his village, ; He asks at the judge's house: ; - Good day, judge. ; - May God grant you a good soldier. ; ; - May judge give you lodging, ; - I cannot give you one, good soldier. ; Because I have no wife, ; There is no one to cook dinner. ; ; - I don't need your good dinner, ; Your clean, elegant, warm room, ; I'll be content with mine, ; With my couch cushion. ; ; – Farmer Bíró go for wine, ; I have a pennies, ; Five hundred forints in my pocket, ; The fifth for the saddle. ; ; Farmer Bíró went for wine, ; The soldier undressed. ; He unbuttons his little shirt, ; He nurses his little son. ; ; The farmer judge went home, ; His little son boasts, ; – My father, my dear father, ; This was my mother. ; ; – Listen, little boy, listen, ; She wasn't your mother. ; I would recognize her as a street vendor, ; With a slender waist on a lake. ; ; – If I had known that in the past, ; That she was your godmother, ; I wouldn't have let her go ; For sixteen thousand forints.