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Соловей мой, соловейко! Птица малая, лесная! У тебя ль, у малой птицы, Незаменные три песни, У меня ли, у молодца, Три великие заботы! Как уж первая забота -- Рано молодца женили; А вторая-то забота -- Ворон конь мой притомился; Как уж третья-то забота -- Красну-девицу со мною Разлучили злые люди. Вы копайте мне могилу Во поле, поле широком, В головах мне посадите Алы цветики-цветочки, А в ногах мне проведите Чисту воду ключевую. Пройдут мимо красны девки, Так сплетут себе [веночки]1: Пройдут мимо стары люди, Так воды себе зачерпнут.
1 another edition of Pushkin has: "кепочки"
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- by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), "Соловей", appears in Песни западных славян (Pesni zapadnykh slavjan), no. 10 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Serbian (Српски) by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787 - 1864), "Три највеће туге" [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Соловей", op. 99 no. 2 (1915), published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Шесть песен западных славян = Six poésies illyriques tirées de la "Guzla" de Prosper Mérimée traduites par A. Pouchkine et mises en musique, no. 2, Petrograd: M.P. Belaieff [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Vladimir Fyodorovich Kazimir , "Соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nina Vladimirovna Makarova (1908 - 1976), "Соловей" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Соловей", op. 60 (Двенадцать романсов = Dvenadcat' romansov (Twelve romances) = Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 4 (1886) [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Rossignol", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-04
Line count: 23
Word count: 85
My nightingale, [oh] nightingale! Little bird of [the] forest! You’re a, a small bird, [with] Three indispensable songs, I have, I’m a young man, Three great sorrows! Such is [my] first concern — I married young; But [this is my] second concern -- My raven-colored horse is worn out; Such is [my] third concern — [A] red-haired girl was mine We were spearated by evil people. You [should] dig for me A grave, in the wide fields, At my head plant Little scarlet flowers, But at my feet will run [A] stream of pure water. When pretty girls pass by, There they will braid garlands [from the flowers]: When old people pass by, There they will cool themselves with a palmful1 of water.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 literally: they will scoop up some water for themselves, they will refresh themselves
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- Translation from Russian (Русский) to English copyright © 2016 by Laura Prichard, (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 Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), "Соловей", appears in Песни западных славян (Pesni zapadnykh slavjan), no. 10
Based on:
- a text in Serbian (Српски) by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787 - 1864), "Три највеће туге" [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2016-06-26
Line count: 23
Word count: 122