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by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Ой, честь ли то молодцу лён прясти?
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Our translations:  FRE
Ой, честь ли то молодцу лён прясти?
А и хвала ли боярину кичку носить?
Воеводе по воду ходить?
Гусляру-певуну во приказе сидеть?
Во приказе сидеть, потолок коптить?

Ой, коня б ему! гусли б звонкие!
Ой, в луга б ему, во зелёный бор!
Через реченьку да в тёмный сад,
Где соловушка на черёмушке
Целу ноченьку напролёт поёт!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875), no title, written 1857 [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 Nikolay Dmitrevich Dmitriev (1829 - 1893), "Ой, честь-ли то молодцу" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935), "Ой, честь ли то молодцу", op. 24 no. 3, published 1892 [ women's chorus with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ivanov (1849 - 1927), "Ой, честь ли то молодцу" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Viktor Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1870 - 1927), "Ой, честь ли то молодцу" [ chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839 - 1881), "Ой, честь-ли то молодцу лён прясти?", 1877, published 1882 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Yury Sergeyevich Sakhnovsky (b. 1866), "Ой, честь ли то молодцу" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vladimir Ivanovich Sokalsky (1863 - 1919), "Ой, честь ли то молодцу" [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 56

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