Love & longing
Ehlocan
ეჰლოჯან
A familiar refrain, a documented Ziosi performance, and several local memories of how the song began.
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Bazgirulai
ბაზგირულაჲ
A dance-song text that names the valley’s villages and turns distance from Badzgireti into longing.
Lyrics & translation
About this song
Bazgirulai belongs to the dance repertoire documented in Badzgireti. Shioshvili prints a twelve-line text, citing R. Khalvashi’s 2007 publication. It joins several short verses: first the nearby place names and longing for Badzgireti, then an invitation to take a hand and walk together, and finally a remembered journey through Janjiri.
The author describes the sung text as a combination of several verse-songs circulating in the region. It is therefore useful to read the stanzas as a documented arrangement, rather than assume one fixed text was sung everywhere. Shioshvili also records a shorter variant from Zuleikha Demir in Ustamisi in 2005.
The 2025 music catalogue lists a related incipit, Daba da Devrieti, recorded by Giorgi Kraveishvili in Ustamisi in 2014, performed by Mikael Altun and Kamil Demir (Bikirashvili), audio item 140. That catalogue reference does not establish that its recording contains every line reproduced here.
Recordings
This entry documents a written source. A matching playable recording has not yet been linked.
Lyrics & translation
Complete twelve-line text printed in Shioshvili (2016), p. 90, via Khalvashi (2007), p. 311. The three stanza breaks are editorial reading divisions. Dialect spellings and the source form Devieti are retained. Batsrebi and Ziaret are left as local geographical terms rather than given an unverified literal meaning. English and Turkish are editorial reading translations; they are not transcriptions of the catalogue recording.
Georgian originalEnglish translation
1
დაბა და დევიეთი,
ზემოდან ზაქიეთი.
ორი დღეა, აღარ ვარ,
მომსურდა ბაზგირეთი!
1
Daba and Devieti,
Zakieti above them.
I have been away for two days,
And I long for Badzgireti!
2
– სიდევრი? – ბაზგირელი,
– მოდი, ჩამართვი ხელი!
სიცოცხლეში ვიაროთ
ჯანჯირი-ბაზგირეთი!
2
“Where are you from?” “Badzgireti.”
“Come, give me your hand!”
Let us wander in our lifetime
Between Janjiri and Badzgireti!
3
ჯანჯირის ბაწრებიდან
გეჲარ, გახვალ ზიარეთ.
სულ არ დამავიწყდება,
ჩვენ რო ერთათ ვიარეთ.
3
By Janjiri’s Batsrebi,
You pass on toward Ziaret.
I shall never forget
How we walked together.
Sources & credits
- Tina Shioshvili, Shavshuri Folklori (2016) — pp. 90–91; quoting R. Khalvashi (2007), p. 311
- Kraveishvili, Alimbarashvili & Damchidze (2025) — Audio appendix 139–140 (related Daba da Devrieti recordings)
- Translations prepared for the Imerkhevi Digital Project — Editorial reading translations from the cited Georgian text
A matching playable source recording has not yet been attached. The text entry is complete for the cited printed version; further performances can be added as separate recordings within this song page.