Traditional folk song from Memelland (Memelgebiet) in Kleinlitauen / Preußisch-Litauen region of the former East Prussia. The video was filmed in 1995 Nida (Nidden) town in the Curonian spit (Kurische Nehrung), the song is sung by the town's local folk group. All women in the video are wearing casual versions of the region's traditional folk clothing.
Tradicinė Liudviko Rėzos užrašyta prūsininkų liaudies daina iš Klaipėdos krašto, buvusiuose Rytprūsiuose (Mažojoje Lietuvoje).
Translation of the lyrics:
The dawn is already breaking, my mother is waking me up:
- Get up, my sweet young girl!
Before I had even got up, I asked my mother:
- Where have you put my wreath?
- Oh, I have given your dear wreath
To a young lad in the yard.
- Hey, lad, my dear lad,
Where have you put my wreath?
- I have thrown your wreath into
A fast-flowing river.
As the wreath floated away the swans were chirping,
It's so nice for me to listen to them.
Look well, my dear lassie,
How the brown horse is shivering!
That's how you will shiver too, my lassie,
When you will be my wife.
I won't punish you for the first five years
Till you will have had rejoiced enough.
- Was this how you were talking, you rogue lad,
When you were proposing to me?
You were not going to punish me, you were to condole me,
To carry me in your arms.

Dainos žodžiai:
Jau aušt aušružė žadin mamužė
Kelkis, jauna mergyt.
Dar n'atsikėlus klausiau mamužės,
Kur dėjai vainikyt?
O aš įdaviau vainikytį tavo
Kieme jaunam bernyč'.
Ei, bernyt, bernyt, bernyti mano,
Kur dėjai vainikyt'?
O aš įmečiau vainikytį tavo
Į srovingą upuž'.
Vainikytis plaukia gulbikės šaukia
Tai man gražu klausyt
Įsižiūrėki, mano mergyte,
Kaip dreba bėrs žirgyt's.
Taip tu drebėsi, mergyte mano,
Kad mano valioj bus'.
I penkis metus tave nebausiu
Pakolei atsidžiaugs.
Ar taip kalbėjai, šelmi bernyti,
Kol mane perkalbėj',
Neketinai bausti, ketinai pajausti,
Ant rankužių nešiot.

Dainuoja Nidos liaudies muzikos grupė, vadovė Laima Ruzgailaitė, tarp dainininkių - etnologė Gražina Kadžytė.