"Izlel ye Delyo Haydutin" ( bg, Излел е Дельо хайдутин, lit=Delyo has become a

hajduk A hajduk ( hu, hajdúk, plural of ) is a type of irregular infantry found in Central and parts of Southeast Europe from the late 16th to mid 19th centuries. They have reputations ranging from bandits to freedom fighters depending on time, p ...

) is a Bulgarian folk song from the central Rhodope Mountains about

Delyo Delyo ( bg, Дельо, sometimes Делю, ''Delyu'') was a Bulgarian rebel leader ('' hajduk voivode'') who was active in the Rhodope Mountains in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Delyo was born in Belovidovo (today Zlatograd) in the Smo ...

, a rebel leader who was active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The song is most famously sung by Valya Balkanska, a 1977 recording of which was included on the Golden Record carried on board the ''

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'' and ''

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'' probes.

Other versions

The first versions of the song were recorded by Georgi Chilingirov and Nadezhda Hvoyneva. Recordings of Valya Balkanska singing it were first made by the American scholar of Bulgarian folklore Martin Koenig in the late 1960s, along with other original Bulgarian folk songs. An instrumental arrangement appears on Wendy Carlos' album '' Beauty in the Beast'' as "A Woman's Song," with synthesized Indian and Western instrumentation in place of Bulgarian bagpipes.

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Bulgarian folk songs Contents of the Voyager Golden Record Songs about military officers Cultural depictions of military officers Cultural depictions of Bulgarian men {{folk-song-stub