With a doll | Tyapa, bye, bye, Tyapa, bye, bye

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by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881)

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

С куклой

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG FRE LIT

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Тяпа, бай, бай, Тяпа, спи, усни,
Угомон тебя возьми! Тяпа! Спать надо!
Тяпа, спи, усни, Тяпу бука съест,
серый волк возьмёт, в тёмный лес снесёт.
Тяпа, спи, усни!
Что во сне увидишь, мне про то расскажешь:
Про остров чудный, где ни жнут ни сеют,
Где цветут и зреют груши наливные,
День и ночь поют птички золотые!
Бай, бай, баю бай, бай, бай, Тяпа!

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Text Authorship:

by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881)

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), "С куклой", 1868-72, published 1883, from Детская = Detskaja (The nursery), no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "With a doll ", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Avec la poupée", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Hans Schmidt) , "Mit der Puppe"
LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Su lėle", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 63

With a doll

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

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Tyapa, bye, bye, Tyapa, bye, bye,
Calm yourself down! Tyapa! You need to sleep!
Tyapa, sleep, sleep, Tyapa, or the boogeyman will come
a big wolf will come, and carry you into the dark forest.
Tyapa, sleep, go to sleep!
What you see in your dreams, tell me about it:
About a wonderful island, where you don’t need to reap nor sow,
Where pear trees bloom and ripen,
Day and night golden birds sing!
Bye, bye, hushabye, bye, bye, Tyapa!

Translator's note: "Tyapa" is a doll made famous in the professional puppet troupe of Sergei Vladimirovich Obraztsov (1901-1992), with a small baby’s head topped by a few strands of hair, two small hands, and a billowing nightshirt to cover the arm of the puppeteer.

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This text was added to the website: 2016-06-16
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Word count: 80