"Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin" ( bg, Излел е Дельо хайдутин, lit=Delyo has become a

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) is a

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folk song from the central

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about

Delyo Delyo ( bg, Дельо, sometimes Делю, ''Delyu'') was a Bulgarian rebel leader ('' hajduk voivode'') who was active in the Rhodope Mountains in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Delyo was born in Belovidovo (today Zlatograd) in the Smo ...

, a rebel leader who was active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The song is most famously sung by

Valya Balkanska Valya Mladenova Balkanska ( bg, Валя Младенова Балканска; born 8 January 1942) is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folk songs, but in the West mainly fo ...

, a 1977 recording of which was included on the Golden Record carried on board the ''

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'' and ''

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'' probes.

Other versions

The first versions of the song were recorded by Georgi Chilingirov and Nadezhda Hvoyneva. Recordings of Valya Balkanska singing it were first made by the American scholar of Bulgarian folklore Martin Koenig in the late 1960s, along with other original Bulgarian folk songs. An instrumental arrangement appears on Wendy Carlos' album ''

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'' as "A Woman's Song," with synthesized Indian and Western instrumentation in place of Bulgarian bagpipes.

Lyrics

Sources

Bulgarian folk songs Contents of the Voyager Golden Record Songs about military officers Cultural depictions of military officers Cultural depictions of Bulgarian men {{folk-song-stub