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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Песня тёмного леса
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Тёмный лес шумел, 
тёмный лес гудел,
песню пел,
песню старую,
быль бывалую,
сказывал:
как живала там
воля-волюшка, вольная;
как сбиралась там
сила-силушка, сильная.

Как та волюшка разгулялася,
как та силушка расходилася,
на расправу шла волюшка,
города брала силушка
и над недругом потешалася,
кровью недруга упивалася досыта.

Воля вольная, 
сила сильная.

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Text Authorship:

  • from Volkslieder (Folksongs)  [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Aleksandr Porfir'yevich Borodin (1833 - 1887), "Песня тёмного леса", subtitle: "Старая песня", 1867/8?, published 1873, orchestrated 1893 by Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov. [men's chorus and piano] [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 50

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