At bedtime | Lord have mercy on Papa and Mama

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by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881)

Translation © by Laura Prichard

На сон грядущий

Language: Russian (Русский)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE LIT

„Господи помилуй папу и маму
и спаси их, Господи!
Господи помилуй братца Васеньку
и братца Мишеньку!
Господи помилуй бабушку старенькую,
Пошли ты ей доброе здоровьице,
Бабушке добренькой,
бабушке старенькой, Господи!
И спаси, Боже наш, тётю Катю,
тётю Наташу, тётю Машу, тётю Парашу,
Тётей Любу, Варю, и Сашу, 
и Олю, и Таню, и Надю,
Дядей Петю и Колю, дядей Володю
и Гришу, и Сашу, и всех их,
Господи, спаси и помилуй,
и Филю, и Ваню, и Митю, и Петю,
и Дашу, Пашу, Соню, Дунюшку. . . 
Няня! а, няня! Как дальше, няня?”

„Вишь ты, проказница какая!
Уж сколько раз учила:
Господи помилуй и меня грешную!”

„Господи помилуй и меня грешную!
Так, нянюшка?”

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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), "На сон грядущий", 1868-72, published 1883, from Детская = Detskaja (The nursery), no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Christian Anderson) , "Evening prayer", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "At bedtime", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "En allant dormir", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Hans Schmidt) , "Abendgebet"
LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Prieš miegą", 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: 23
Word count: 111

At bedtime

Language: English after the Russian (Русский)

“Lord have mercy on Papa and Mama
and save them, Lord!
Lord have mercy on [my] little brother Vasya
and [my] brother Misha!
Lord have mercy on my old grandmother,
Give her good health,
Grandma’s so good,
Grandma’s so old, Lord!
And save, our God, Auntie Katya,
auntie Natasha, auntie Masha, auntie Parasha,
Aunties Lyuba, Varya, and Sasha, 
and Olya, and Tanya, and Nadya,
Uncles Petya and Kolya, uncles Volodya
and Grisha, and Sasha, and everybody else,
Lord, save and have mercy on
Filya, and Vanya, and Mitya, and Petya,
and Dasha, Pasha, Sonya, Dunyushka...
Nurse! Hey, nurse! What else, Nurse?”

“You see, how naughty you are!
How many times do I really need to repeat:
'Lord have mercy and protect me!'”

“Lord have mercy and protect me!
That’s it, Nanny?”

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a text in Russian (Русский) by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881)
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This text was added to the website: 2016-06-16
Line count: 23
Word count: 131