🎵 Bessarabia (English) — A Folk Ballad for Sam | Homeland Pride vs. Kansas 🎵

Bessarabia — A Folk Ballad for Sam (English) — a joyful, cinematic folk song honoring Sam, our father-in-law, and his golden homeland of Bessarabia — the land between the Prut, Dniester, and Danube rivers, where chernozem blooms, sunflowers lift their faces to the dawn, and a tapestry of peoples — Gagauz, Bulgarian, Romanian — forever remain. A playful, loving nod to the green prairies and mighty cattle of Kansas. Two homelands, one heart. Because our art is loving people. — LYRICS — (Verse 1) Between the Prut and Dniester where two riversides wait, There's a golden land where my roots run straight. Bessarabia, the land of labor and bread, Where the black rich chernozem blooms overhead. (Chorus) Oh Bessarabia, you're the pride of my heart, The hills and the meadows, my land from the start. Yes, Kansas has prairies as beautiful as they come, But no song opens the soul like the land where I'm from! (Verse 2 — Sam's Kansas) Our Sam arrived and he just couldn't believe — The grass was so green that his eyes couldn't leave. "Such beauty as this I have never once seen, And the cattle are mighty and healthy and keen!" (Chorus) Oh Bessarabia, you're the pride of my heart, The hills and the meadows, my land from the start. Let Kansas raise horses so proud and so free, But my homeland raised men — and it raised them like me! (Verse 3) The sunflower lifts its face up to the dawn, The wheat grows so heavy as autumn rolls on. Gagauz and Bulgarian, Romanian refrain — A tapestry of peoples who forever remain. (Bridge) Yes, Kansas, my Kansas, I'll give you your due, Your grass is so green and your cattle are too. Your horses run free and your livestock is strong, But my homeland is fairer — and there I belong. (Verse 4) For at home the good earth goes so beautifully deep, And the Dniester sings softly a lullaby sweet. The land is so rich — just live and live free, And when the song finds you — your heart comes alive! (Final Chorus) Oh Bessarabia, forever you shine, The land of my fathers, where freedom's divine. We lift up our hearts — to Sam, every friend, For Bessarabia — the finest land to the end! 🎵 Original songs inspired by real people and real places ❤️ Created with love, respect, and gratitude 🌍 Stories from everywhere life takes us Because our art is loving people.