He quotes lyrics from Chervona Kalyna ... “I remember seeing it printed in a book: Ukrainian Folk Songs 1971. Also, there was another attempt to smuggle this song in one of the patriotic ...

Leontovych’s folk-inspired lyrics were the norm ... The story goes that Peter Wilhousky, a Ukrainian-American heard the song performed in Carnegie Hall and wrote the new lyrics, turning it ...

It’s the historic repetition of that Ukrainian folk song over centuries – the one Americans know as “Carol of the Bells” -- that’s especially poignant and heartbreaking for a nation at war.