Besedilo (Lyrics)
Celotno besedilo pesmi »Majhna sem bila« z angleškim prevodom.
Majhna sem bila, piške sem pasla, piške so čivkale, jaz sem pa rasla.
#Očka so djal, da 'vjo koklo prodal, piške so čivkale, jaz pa jokala.
#English translation
When I was little, I herded the chicks, the chicks were cheeping, and I was growing. Daddy said he'd sell the mother hen, the chicks were cheeping, and I was crying.
#Majhna sem bila at a glance
- Country of origin
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia
- Sung in
- Slovenian
- Words by
- Traditional
- First known
- Slovenian folk song; author unknown
- Best for ages
- 2–7
- Mood
- traditional
- Last updated
- 25 July 2026
Meaning and origin
This short folk song is a small act of remembering. The singer looks back to when she was little and tended the chicks — the chicks cheeping, and she growing up right alongside them — a picture of a happy, ordinary farmyard childhood. In just a few words it captures that early world where a child’s whole day might be spent minding a brood of baby birds.
Then, gently, it turns. Her father announces he will sell the mother hen, and the little girl cries — while the chicks, not understanding, go on cheeping. It is a tiny, sharp memory of a first small grief: the way the grown-up world of buying and selling can quietly take away something a child has loved and cared for. No author is recorded; it is a Slovenian folk song, carried down by ear, and its quiet wistfulness — happiness remembered, and a loss beside it — is very much the tone of old country song.
Common questions
- What is "Majhna sem bila" about?
- Looking back on being small. The singer remembers that when she was little she herded the chicks; the chicks cheeped, and she grew alongside them. Then her father says he'll sell the mother hen, and the little girl cries — a small, sharp memory of a childhood loss.
- Why does she cry?
- Because selling the mother hen means breaking up the little brood she has been caring for — a first taste of how the grown-up world of buying and selling can take away something a child loves. It is a gentle, wistful song rather than a cheerful one.
- Who wrote "Majhna sem bila"?
- No author is recorded; it is a Slovenian folk song, carried down by ear.
