Characteristic features of the old Hungarian filk songs: five-note melody, double-layered, ornaments, free rhythm
Szabolcsi Bence: A magyar zene kézikönyve.
Sajtó alá rendezte Bónis Ferenc. Szabolcsi Bence muvei 2.
Zenemukiadó, Budapest, 1979, page 105. Examples:
a) Gather the Crops, My Dear, b) The Peacock Has Settled,
c) Where Are You, Three Orphans, Going?