Tomáš Botló - "Gelem, gelem"
created: 22. 06. 2015 07:29 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The melodic motive of the Romani anthem comes probably from the ancient song popular originally in Romania or Serbia during the 1st half of the 20th century. Sin the 1968 when the director Alexander Petrovič used its melody with the lyrics made by the Romani musician Jarko Jovanovič in the film with the Romani theme The Buyers of Feather (Skupljači peria, 1967, Yugoslavia), the song had became popular once more. The Romani musicians included the song into their repertoir and many times changed its lyrics (sometimes even melody and tempo) according to their own feeling. Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomáš mixis romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists. The song sung by Tomáš Botló "I am fine" is a cover version /Zámbó Jimmy/. Lyrics by Tomáš Botló. The song is sung with guitar playing at the social hall of the cultural house in Hubice, district of Dunajská Streda.
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 21. 11. 2013
category: music
A text transcript of the video content
Dželem, dželem.
Dželem, dželem lungone dromenca,
maladilem bachtale Romenca.
Dželem, dželem lungone dromenca,
maladilem bachtale Romenca.
Šej, haj, Romale,
šej, haj, čhavale.
Šej, haj, Romale,
šej, haj, Cigane.
Išli sme, išli.
Išli sme, išli dlhými cestami,
stretli sme šťastných Rómov.
Išli sme, išli dlhými cestami,
stretli sme šťastných Rómov.
Šej, haj, Romale,
šej, haj, čhavale.
Šej, haj, Romale,
šej, haj, Cigane.
Long Way We Went
Long way we went,
Happy Roma we met.
Long way we went,
Happy Roma we met.
Shei, hoy, Romale,
Shei, hoy, Brothers.
Shei, hoy, Romale,
Shei, hoy, Gypsies.