(Csárdás is Hungary's national folk dance.)
I learnt to sing every song in it subsequently.
I have also been singing and playing one of these songs in an Aussie pub during the last ten years.
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I sing it bilingually, first in its authentic Hungarian and then in my English translation.
I decided to sing its evergreen lyrics in English too, because I wanted to share its pearl of wisdom from 1914, with my fellow Aussies.
The song warns womanising men, who believe that the grass is always greener on the other side:
'Why run after pleasure, why do you chase a rainbow,
When it's here, just one step away and still you don't know?
Seek it within your heart, not in an outside power,
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There is sweet happiness in every single flower.
For there is love everywhere that is spreading sweet bliss,
The fate of man is the woman he's chosen as his.'
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