oberek

* Wit Szostak – Oberki do konca swiata – Obereks Till The End of the World (oberek is a Polish dance)

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So under the swinging cross, sitting on my kitchen chair, playing the “Good Old Days” oberek just like I remembered the Chopin Group doing it on their recording, I bided my time until my first wedding.

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

So under the swinging cross, sitting on my kitchen chair, playing the “Good Old Days” oberek just like I remembered the Chopin Group doing it on their recording, I bided my time until my first wedding.

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

So under the swinging cross, sitting on my kitchen chair, playing the “Good Old Days” oberek just like I remembered the Chopin Group doing it on their recording, I bided my time until my first wedding.

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

We’d sing, we’d dance, and when he’d had enough, we’d help my father put each of the records back into their sleeves, back into the case he’d organized alphabetically, from the “Alycja, My Love” oberek to the old “życie Jest Trudne” waltz that detailed, in three-quarter time, the truth I had yet to learn back when the words were simply something to sing mindlessly as you washed the supper dishes: “Life Is Hard.”

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

We’d sing, we’d dance, and when he’d had enough, we’d help my father put each of the records back into their sleeves, back into the case he’d organized alphabetically, from the “Alycja, My Love” oberek to the old “życie Jest Trudne” waltz that detailed, in three-quarter time, the truth I had yet to learn back when the words were simply something to sing mindlessly as you washed the supper dishes: “Life Is Hard.”

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

I studied the titles—traditional ones like the oberek “Laseczku Mój Zielony,” and ones she’d written, polkas like “Shake It” and “Fool for Love.”

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

I studied the titles—traditional ones like the oberek “Laseczku Mój Zielony,” and ones she’d written, polkas like “Shake It” and “Fool for Love.”

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

We’d sing, we’d dance, and when he’d had enough, we’d help my father put each of the records back into their sleeves, back into the case he’d organized alphabetically, from the “Alycja, My Love” oberek to the old “życie Jest Trudne” waltz that detailed, in three-quarter time, the truth I had yet to learn back when the words were simply something to sing mindlessly as you washed the supper dishes: “Life Is Hard.”

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

I studied the titles—traditional ones like the oberek “Laseczku Mój Zielony,” and ones she’d written, polkas like “Shake It” and “Fool for Love.”

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996