Panorama Sing when you’re tramping - the art of the Czech wandering song
This song might sound like something out of a Western, but it is every bit as Czech as Dvořák or Smetana. 'Sbohem kapitáne můj' is one of the hundreds of melodies to form part of the Czech tramping songbook. Such songs have, for the last 90 years, been providing the soundtrack to a particularly Czech pastime – tramping. To an untrained eye, tramping consists of weekends spent living rough in the forest, and weekdays meeting with kindred spirits and singing in the pub. But to those initiated, tramping means much more – it's a way of life. At a fortnightly tramping sing-along, the country's self-proclaimed oldest active tramp, Vladimír Horák, let me in on a bit of the secret:
Photo: www.trampnet.sk
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