Russian mandolin: It’s Not The Wind That Bends The Branch (Russian folk song)

This is a Russian folk song (Russian title “То не ветер ветку клонит“). Tchaikovsky wrote a harmonisation of this tune in 1893, although that’s not my source -- I used the first mandolin part of the arrangement we play with our mandolin ensemble, which was prepared by Tony Judge from an unknown (to me) book of Russian folk tunes. Played on my Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin.