Не скажу никому отчего я весной

Не скажу никому отчего я весной
По полям и лугам не сбираю цветов.
Та весна далеко, те завяли цветы,
Из которых я с ним завивала венки.
И тех нет уже дней, что летели стрелой,
Что любовью нас жгли, что палили огнём!
Не скажу никому от чего у меня
Тяжело на груди, злая грусть налегла.

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Authorship

• by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Русская песня", first published 1840 [ 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 Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Не скажу никому", published 1844. [
   text verified 1 time
  ]
• by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869), "Не скажу никому" [
   text verified 1 time
  ]

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• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "I won't tell anyone", copyright ©

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I won't tell anyone

 I won't tell anyone why in spring
 I'm not gathering flowers in the fields and meadows.
 That spring is distant now; the flowers 
 that I once wove into wreaths with him have wilted.
 And those days are simply over, have flown past like arrows,
 when love entwined us and burned like fire!
 I won't tell anyone why I have 
 a weight on my chest, a cruel grief oppressing me.

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• a text in Russian (Русский) by Aleksey Vasil'yevich Kol'tsov (1808 - 1842), "Русская песня", first published 1840
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky. Go to the text.

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.