The fifth chapter depicts how already well-drunk Ivan invited people to dances, games, and drink, and then the song sung by Ivan and Mykhailo burst into the noise of conversation, into the noise of music and dances. "The words of those songs are going, like yellow autumn leaves, which the wind drives across the frozen ground, and it stops again and again on each fair and trembles with torn shores, as before death." The farewell song resembled a kind of funeral.