Trang The Rowan Tree (English cover) A cover version of the original Russian folk song "The Rowan Tree" by Trang, adapted for an English-speaking audience

Why do you stand swaying
Slender rowan tree
Your head softly laying
To the fence with plea?

Just across the roadway
Past the river wide
Lonely in the same way
Stands an oak with pride

Oh, if I, the rowan
Could but reach the oak
I would not be bowing
Under wind's cloak

With my slender branches
I would hold him tight
With his leaves in whispers
Talk both day and night

But the rowan never
Reaches for the oak
Such is fate forever
Sway alone, no folk