COMPOSER : Mongolian Folk Tune: Durvun Tsagiin Tal – Four Seasons of the Steppe
ARRANGER :  Judith Hayes

This arrangement is based on a song called Durvun Tsagiin Tal (Four Seasons of the Steppe). If you visit Mongolia, you will hear it just about everywhere... and in many styles, from traditional ballads, easy listening and pop, to the astonishing traditional Mongolian Khöömii (or throat singing)... and you may even encounter a disco trance version. The Mongolians regard it as their National Song, celebrating the rolling grassland, or Steppe, which covers nearly the whole of this huge country.
Durvun Tsagiin Tal

Like a lover looking at me
Smiling at me with flowers
Beautiful greenery all over
This is my fresh spring steppe.

Like a beautiful love song
Which quietens your mind
Rolling for a hundred miles
This is my summer steppe.

Throwing beautiful sunrays
Into all eight directions
Swaying wheat from side to side
This is my golden autumn steppe.

Like an untouched pure soul
Snow fields covering the distance
Freezing its own energy
This is my winter steppe.

English translation by Jargalan Tumurchudur, 2008

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