I.007Reel 2, side AChong-Talas, 196823 min 14 s
Janyl rides out from Chong-Talas
Asan Turdubek uulu, ırchy, with komuz, in the kolkhoz club; recorded by Aigul Choro kyzy and Sagyn Jusupbekov
The listening copy of this reel is in the reading room. Online listening opens volume by volume as the families agree.
English working translation by the archive. The Iradi text is in the reading-room catalogue.
1She saddled the grey with the white star at dawn,2the women of the camp stood with their hands at their mouths,3no one had seen a girl take the spear from the wall.4“If the men are asleep,” she said, “the horse is awake.”
2 The singer stops here to tune and starts the line again. 4 This line is not in the 1938 Talas text; Jusupbekov printed it as a variant in Volume III.