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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Ой, кабы Волга‑матушка да вспять...
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Ой, кабы Волга-матушка да вспять побежала!
Кабы можно, братцы, начать жить сначала!
Ой, кабы зимою цветы расцветали!
Кабы мы любили да не разлюбляли!
Кабы дно морское достать да измерить!
Кабы можно, братцы, красным девкам верить!
Ой, кабы все бабы были б молодицы!
Кабы в полугаре поменьше водицы!
Кабы всегда чарка доходила до рту!
Да кабы приказных по боку да к черту!
Да кабы звенели завсегда карманы!
Да кабы нам, братцы, да свои кафтаны!
Да кабы голодный всякий день обедал!
Да батюшка б царь наш всю правду бы ведал!

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  • by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875) [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 Georgy Petrovich Bazilevsky (b. 1887), "Ой, кабы Волга-матушка" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jules Bleichmann (1868 - 1909), "Ой, кабы Волга-матушка да вспять побежала!", op. 21 no. 4, published [1896] [ mixed chorus a cappella ], St. Petersburg, Wispolsky [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pavel Grigorevich Chesnokov (1877 - 1944), "Ой, кабы Волга-матушка" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Ой, кабы Волга-матушка", op. 67 (Восемьнадцать стихотворении А.К. Толстого = Vosem'nadcat' stikhotvorenii A. K. Tolstogo (18 Poems of A. K. Tolstoy)) no. 1, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Moscow: P. Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]
  • by S .V. Danchenko , "Ой, кабы Волга-матушка" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alexander Aleksandrovich Kopylov (1854 - 1911), "Ой, ка-б Волга-матушка", op. 55 no. 5, published [1908] [ men's chorus a cappella ], Jurgenson [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-05-03
Line count: 14
Word count: 88

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