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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925)

Melkoles`e. Step` i dali
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Melkoles`e. Step` i dali.
Svet luny' vo vse koncy'.
Vot opyat` vdrug zary'dali
Razlivny'e bubency'.

Nepriglyadnaya doroga,
Da lyubimaya navek,
Po kotoroj ezdil mnogo
Vsyakij russkij chelovek.

[E`x vy', sani! Chto za sani!]1
Zvony' merzly'e osin.
U menya otecz krest`yanin,
Nu a ya krest`yanskij sy'n.

Naplevat` mne na izvestnost`
I na to, chto ya poe`t.
E`tu chaxlen`kuyu mestnost`
Ne vidal ya mnogo let.

Tot, kto videl xot` odnazhdy'
E`tot kraj i e`tu glad`,
Tot pochti berezke kazhdoj
Nozhku rad pocelovat`.

Kak zhe mne ne proslezit`sya,
Esli s venkoj v sty'n` i zven`
Budet ryadom veselit`sya
Yunost` russkix dereven`.

E`x, garmoshka, smert`-otrava,
Znat`, s togo pod e`tot voj
Ne odna lixaya slava
Propadala try'n-travoj.

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•   G. Sviridov 

G. Sviridov sets stanzas 1, 3-5, 2

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1 Sviridov: "Ой, вы, сани, сани, сани,"

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Text Authorship:

  • by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925), no title, written 1925 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Boris Alekseyevch Prozorovsky (1891 - 1937), "Мелколесье" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov (1915 - 1998), "Сани", stanzas 1,3-5,2, from У меня отец - крестьянин (U menja otec - krest'janin) (My father is a peasant), no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-23
Line count: 28
Word count: 114

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