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by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930)

Istoriya pro bubliki i pro babu, ne...
Language: Russian (Русский) 
S`ya istoriya by'la v nekoej respublike,
Baba na bazar ply'la, a u baby' bubliki.
Sly'shet, topot bliz eyo muzy'koyu veetsya:
By't` na fronte panov`e mchat krasno-armejcy'.

Kushat` xotcza odnomu, govorit ej: Tyotya,
Bublik daj golodnomu! Vy' zh na front nejdetya?!
Kol` bez dela budet rot, budu slab, kak moshhi.
Pan respubliku sozhret, esli budem toshhi.

Baba molvila: Ni v zhist` ne otdam ya bubliki!
Proch`, sluzhivy'j, otvyazhis`! Cherta l` mne v respublike?! 
Shyol nash polk i xud, i toshh, a vragi sazhenny'e.
Nas smela panova moshh` v pervom she srazhenii.

Mchitsya pan, i lyut i yar, smert` nesya rabochim...
K glupoj babe na bazar vlez on mezhdu prochim.
Vidit pan: bela, zhirna baba mezhdu publiki.
Mig - i s``edena ona. I ona i bubliki.

Posmotri, na ploshhad` vy'jd`: ni krest`yan, ni sitnika.
Nado vovremya kormit` krasnogo zashhitnika.
Tak kormite krasny'x rat`! Xleb nesi bez voyu,
Chto-by' xleb ne poteryat` vmeste s golovoyu.
Tak kormite, tak kormite, beregite krasny'x rat`!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930) [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 Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov (1915 - 1998), "История про бублики и про бабу, не признающую республики", from Две песни о гражданской войне (Dve pesni o grazhdanskoj vojne) = Two songs about the Civil War, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 158

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