Section B has undergone the greatest number of changes, aimed at either transforming it into a refrain or associating it with lyrics of various sizes. I get up - I get down, all my world turns around. Refren x 6 : Poate intr-o zi iti vei dori All of the sung verse-lines the equivalent of the musical phrases are trochaic octosyllables or hexasyllables, their metric pattern being identical to that of all sung verse-lines of Romanian peasant and urban music. Just as in the nineteenth century, intellectuals find manele repulsive—as in the other Balkan countries, for instance, chalga in Bulgaria Statelova
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