Translation by Semyon Olender (1907 - 1969)
Vegn rokhves fun felder
Language: Yiddish (יידיש)
Vegn rokhves fun felder, Oy, brider getraye, hob ikh a mol nit lider gezungen, vayl nit far mir di felder flegn grinen un nit far mir flegt toy aroprinen. In enge kelers, in finstere vi nakht, bin ikh gezesn, gezesn farshmakht, in keler hot umetik zikh getrogn mayn nign vegn tsores un laydn un plogn. Kol virtisher taykhl zolst flisn, zolst flisn, un gib ale fraynt mayne fraylekhe grusn, in gliklikhe kolvirt iz itst mayn heym, bai mayn fenster shteyt a bliyender boym. Di felder far mir, far mir oikh itst grinen, fun zey milkh un honig far mir oikh rinen, kh'bin gliklikh! Du zolst mayne brider dertseyln, vegn kolvirtshe felder zing ikh itst mayne lider!
Text Authorship:
- from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Vegn rokhves fun felder", Jewish folk poetry. [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Semyon Olender (1907 - 1969) FRE ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-02
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Word count: 116
Chorošaja žizn'
Language: Russian (Русский) after the Yiddish (יידיש)
Our translations: FRE
O pole prostornom, druz'ja dorogie, Pesen ne pel ja v gody gluchie. Ne dlja menja polja rascvetali, Ne dlja menja rosinki stekali. V tesnom podvale vo t'me syroj Žil ja kogda-to, izmučen nuždoj. I grustnaja pesnja neslas' iz podvala O gore, o muke moej nebyvaloj. Kolchoznaja rečka, struis' veselee; Druz'jam peredaj moj poklon poskoree. Skaži, čto v kolchoze teper' moj dom, Cvetuščee derevo stoit pod oknom. Teper' dlja menja polja rascvetajut, Menja molokom i mëdom pitajut. JA sčastliv, a ty rasskaži moim brat'jam: Kolchoznym poljam budu pesni slagat' ja!
Note: input from a monograph by Prof. Joachim Braun.
Researcher for this page: John Burke
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Text Authorship:
- by Semyon Olender (1907 - 1969) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Yiddish (יידיש) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Vegn rokhves fun felder", Jewish folk poetry.
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Хорошая жизнь", op. 79 no. 9 (1948), first performed 1955 [ tenor and piano ], from Из Еврейской Народной Поэзии = Iz Jevrejskoj Narodnoj Po`ezii (From Jewish Folk Poetry), no. 9, note: orchestrated as op. 79a [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La bonne vie", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: John Burke
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-02
Line count: 16
Word count: 89