The song was sung by teachers and pupils of Szkoła Podstawowa nr 11 in Przemyśl. It was written for the 1938 film Zapomniana Melodia (The Forgotten Melody)
”Ah, How Pleasant It Is!”
How can one be bored?
How can one whine
That the world is sad, that things are bad?
I don’t understand.
How can one, indeed?
The world is lovely.
Let the one who is grumbles come here
And I will tell him this:
How can one whine
That the world is sad, that things are bad?
I don’t understand.
How can one, indeed?
The world is lovely.
Let the one who is grumbles come here
And I will tell him this:
Ah, how pleasant it is to rock in the waves,
When the water hums and flows into the distance.
Ah, how pleasant it is; joyful song is streaming,
Because the water hums and so does young blood.
And so delightfully, so willingly the heart keeps the beat
When the weather is good and the water is humming,
we need so little to be happy!
Ah, how pleasant it is to rock in the waves,
When the water hums and flows into the distance.
When the water hums and flows into the distance.
Ah, how pleasant it is; joyful song is streaming,
Because the water hums and so does young blood.
And so delightfully, so willingly the heart keeps the beat
When the weather is good and the water is humming,
we need so little to be happy!
Ah, how pleasant it is to rock in the waves,
When the water hums and flows into the distance.
(English trans. Halina Goldberg)
