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by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930)

Istorija pro bubliki i pro babu, ne...
Language: Russian (Русский) 
S'ja istorija byla v nekojej respublike,
Baba na bazar plyla, a u baby bubliki.
Slyshet, topot bliz jejo muzykoju vejetsja:
Byt' na fronte panov'e mchat krasno-armejcy.

Kushat' khotca odnomu, govorit jej: Tjotja,
Bublik daj golodnomu! Vy zh na front nejdetja?!
Kol' bez dela budet rot, budu slab, kak moshchi.
Pan respubliku sozhret, jesli budem toshchi.

Baba molvila: Ni v zhist' ne otdam ja bubliki!
Proch', sluzhivyj, otvjazhis'! Cherta l' mne v respublike?! 
Shjol nash polk i khud, i toshch, a vragi sazhennye.
Nas smela panova moshch' v pervom she srazhenii.

Mchitsja pan, i ljut i jar, smert' nesja 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 ploshchad' vyjd': ni krest'jan, ni sitnika.
Nado vovremja kormit' krasnogo zashchitnika.
Tak kormite krasnykh rat'! Khleb nesi bez voju,
Chto-by khleb ne poterjat' vmeste s golovoju.
Tak kormite, tak kormite, beregite krasnykh 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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