Penka Jane Čulevski 2026
"The original version of this song is entitled "The Warlike Lads of Russia", and is credited to British Folk artist Nic Jones. He has stated in album notes that he found some of the song's lyrics in an old English broadside (a publication of Victorian street songs), added fresh lyrics of his own, and wrote the associated tune."
Penka Jane Čulevski: https://helloaugustus.bandcamp.com/track/the-folks-from-minnesota
Oh when Gregory Bovino to Minnesota went
With all his troops and all his men their minds were fully bent
For to break those northern cities oh they had been employed
But the whole town rose against them and their spirits did destroy
Chorus:
Oh the folks from Minnesota they fight all in one mind
Making Bovino to run and leave his troops behind
When in two Sister Cities the common man did stand
Old Bovino and all his men took anyone they’d get
But in two Sister Cities the common man’d retreat
They flooded all their sidewalks and they froze hard all their streets
Well it’s all across Twin Cities the common man held fast
Against Bovino and all his men They marched and drove them back
The action being so hot from right and left and front and rear
“Well damn you all” said Bovino “I’ll stay no longer here”
Well away then went poor Bovino as fast as he could run
Over snowy fields and ditches he left cars and plans and guns
The carnage of his actions, the rage of neighbors too
He left it all behind him for it’s all he knows to do
Said “It’s full 3,000 men of mine, their dignity you’ve taken
Likewise you’ve robbed them of their sleep and nobody will feed them
But never more to Minneapolis I dare advance
For if I do I may be sure they’ll teach me how to dance”
So it’s to conclude and so to finish up our song
Old Bovino can run from state to state but not for long
For it’s each and every tyrant, and every cruel small man
Must turn and face the music or else see his soul be Damned