True folk song: ukrainian, "Even though he lost interest in the cock"[1]

    Послала мене мати
    к хлопців погуляти:
    "Погуляй собі, доню,
    Я ж тобі не бороню".

    А я собі гуляю,
    Як рибка по Дунаю,
    Як рибка з окунцями,
    Я, молода, з хлопцями.

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    My mother sent me
    to go for a walk with the guys:
    "Take a walk, daughter,
    I'm not tilling[2] you."

    I'm walking[3] around,
    Like a fish in the Danube,
    Like a fish with perches[4],
    Youthful me, with the guys.

from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtR4szp1CB0

For a similar story in an anglophone context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0mxQXmLsk

[1] The rest of the song is about planting and furrows and peas in pods and other agricultural topics, so it should be no surprise the young man of the title had a rooster along. As roosters will do, it had awakened her in the morning, after a night of very little sleep.

[2] Compare https://acoup.blog/2020/08/06/collections-bread-how-did-they...

I'm not sure if this verb is referring to the pre-seeding earthwork (which makes a fertile soil receptive to the seeds) or the post-seeding earthwork (which covers up the generative potential, protecting them from the outside environment). Either way, mama ain't doin' it.

[3] I don't know if this is a difference between folk song usage and modern, or ukrainian and russian dialects, but "walk around" pretty much means "party" in russian hiphop lyrics.

Compare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU-XAxBkEaE

(and unless I've been listening to the wrong ones, wells and riverbanks in slavic folk songs often lead to trouble — and seat wetting.)

[4] Perches are carnivores. (Well-danced tango is said to have a bit of stalking predator play?) Perch are also fairly indiscriminate: they'll go for just about any bait, whether it wriggles or not.