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Suddenly... (I Miss Carpaty) Lyrics

Suddenly door opened just a crack
A hand reached out and ordered me to duck
Took me to a Sturm and Drang banquet
Where Rimsky and Korsakov they met
On the Sturm and Drang banquet
Where Kunitzky popal zapret
A Stambuljankij k Ridiku v Kismet
Still I miss Carpaty!
Miss Carpaty, miss Carpaty!
Samopomitch proshu next
Miss Carpaty, miss Carpaty!
Samopomitch is the best
But I still miss Carpaty!
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When you listen to this a good sense of the gypsy music hits you, the fiddle and the multi-culturalism displayed in multiple languages. But Sturm and Drang is defined on wikipedia as generally extreme emotions within a movement in german literature. I suppose hutz is actually trying to say that at a banquet you would simply storm to the table and load what you want to eat. Rimsky and Korsakov shows up on wiki more as a russian musician (musical connection between sturm/drang and rimsky korsakov) and probably it is music that he listened to as a child (referring to hutz).

Basically, it is a gypsy punk song at it's best.

Cover art for Suddenly... (I Miss Carpaty) lyrics by Gogol Bordello

yeah holy shit son! this song is freakin awesome to blast with surround sound speakers. I wish I only had friends that liked gogol as much as i do

Cover art for Suddenly... (I Miss Carpaty) lyrics by Gogol Bordello

Samopomitch means self-help in Ukrainian Samopomitch proshu next - I am asking for self-help next

where Kunitzky popal zapret a Stambuljankij k Ridiku v Kismet means something like: where Kunitzky was banned and Stambuljankij went to Ridik in Kismet

The music theme closer to the end is inspired by Western-Ukrainian folk song "Kolomyjka"

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Don't you mean Odessa Bulgar?

Cover art for Suddenly... (I Miss Carpaty) lyrics by Gogol Bordello

Samopomich is a Ukrainian credit union for the diaspora in the US. "Proshu next" is what the teller says in half-Ukrainian-half-English to get to the next customer. The song is a homage to the immigrants who came from the Carpathian area of Ukraine and all the silly things to miss, such as the village necrophile and the gypsies.

Cover art for Suddenly... (I Miss Carpaty) lyrics by Gogol Bordello

The change from english to ukrainian seems to me to mark entering the state of drunkeness. Rhe phrase "Rimsky and Korsakov" is, I believe, a joke. (Don't you know "The Flight of the Bumblebee"?)

 
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