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by Arseny Arkad'yevich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1848 - 1913)
Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Трепак
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE NOR
Лес да поляны, безлюдье кругом.
Вьюга и плачет и стонет,
Чуется, будто во мраке ночном,
Злая, кого-то хоронит;
Глядь, так и есть! В темноте мужика
Смерть обнимает, ласкает,
С пьяненьким пляшет вдвоём трепака,
На ухо песнь напевает:
Ой, мужичок, старичок убогой,
Пьян напился, поплёлся дорогой,
А мятель-то, ведьма, поднялась, взыграла.
С поля в лес дремучий невзначай загнала.
Горем, тоской да нуждой томимый,
Ляг, прикорни, да усни, родимый!
Я тебя, голубчик мой, снежком согрею,
Вкруг тебя великую игру затею.
Взбей-ка постель, ты мятель-лебёдка!
Гей, начинай, запевай погодка!
Сказку, да такую, чтоб всю ночь тянулась,
Чтоб пьянчуге крепко под неё заснулось!
Ой, вы леса, небеса, да тучи,
Темь, ветерок, да снежок летучий!
Свейтесь пеленою, снежной, пуховою;
Ею, как младенца, старичка прикрою...
Спи, мой дружок, мужичок счастливый,
Лето пришло, расцвело!
Над нивой солнышко смеётся да серпы гляют,
Песенка несётся, голубки летают...

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Text Authorship:

  • by Arseny Arkad'yevich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1848 - 1913) [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 Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881), "Трепак", 1875-7, from Песни и пляски смерти = Pesni i pljaski smerti, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Sergey Rybin) , "Trepak (Russian Dance)", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Trepak", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Hans Schmidt) , "Trepak"
  • NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 28
Word count: 138

Trepak
Language: French (Français)  after the Russian (Русский) 
Forêt et clairières, solitude tout autour,
Une tempête de neige pleure et gémit,
Cela semble comme si dans l'obscurité de la nuit
Le démon enterrait quelqu'un ;
Allons, c'est bien cela ! dans le noir, un homme,
La mort l'embrasse, le caresse,
Avec l'ivrogne elle danse un trepak,
Elle chante un chant à son oreille :
Oh, petit homme, malheureux vieillard,
Ivre, saoul, tu as trébuché sur le chemin,
Mais la sorcière, s'est levée, a bondi,
De la clairière t'a amené inopinément dans la forêt dense.
Tourmenté par angoisse, l'anxiété et le besoin,
Allonge-toi, et sommeille et endors-toi, mon cher !
Je te protégerai avec de la neige, mon chéri,
Autour de toi je commencerai un grand jeu.
Secoue le lit, tempête de neige !
Hé ! commence ta chanson, enfant de la saison,
Un conte qui prolonge la nuit,
De sorte que l'ivrogne sombre dans le sommeil.
Hé ! vous, forêts, cieux et nuages,
Obscurité, vents et neige virevoltante,
Tressez un manteau de neige et de duvet,
Avec lui je couvrirai le vieil homme comme un bébé...
Dors, mon petit ami, petit paysan heureux,
L'été est arrivé et fleurit !
Au-dessus des champs le soleil rit et les faucilles jouent,
Une petite chanson s'élève, les colombes volent...

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from Russian (Русский) to French (Français) copyright © 2011 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

  • a text in Russian (Русский) by Arseny Arkad'yevich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1848 - 1913)
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This text was added to the website: 2011-05-23
Line count: 28
Word count: 200

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