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Ой Ходить Сон (Oi Khodyt Son)
Key: Am~56 BPMGuitar & Piano chords
One of Ukraine’s oldest and best-loved lullabies, first written down nearly two hundred years ago. Dream and Sleep are pictured as two gentle visitors walking past the window, looking for a warm little cottage and a tiny child to rock through the night. Here you will find a singable English adaptation, the meaning, and chords.
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Verse 1
Am Dm Am
Ой ходить сон коло вікон,
Dm Am E7
а дрімота коло плота.
(Sleep walks by the windows, and Slumber walks by the fence.)
Am Dm Am
Dream walks softly by the panes,
Dm Am E7
Slumber waits along the lanes.
Verse 2
Am Dm Am
Де хатонька теплесенька,
Dm Am E7
де дитина малесенька.
(Where the cottage is warm, where the little one is small.)
Am Dm Am
Where the little house is warm,
Dm Am E7
there we’ll go and rock till dawn.
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Chords — guitar & piano
Am
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Piano
Dm
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Piano
E7
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Piano
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What this song means
Oi Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon (“Sleep Walks by the Windows”) is one of Ukraine’s oldest surviving lullabies, first recorded in the 1830s and sung ever since. It imagines Dream and Sleep as two soft, wandering figures searching the night for the warmest cottage and the smallest child to visit — a gentle way of saying that rest comes looking for those who need it most. In recent years the song has been sung and shared around the world as a quiet message of comfort for Ukraine’s children.
Traditional Ukrainian lullaby. The English lines here are a singable adaptation for this arrangement, offered as a respectful tribute — not a literal translation.
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