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by Teofil Lenartowicz (1822 - 1893)
Translation by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862)

Али мать меня рожала
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the Polish (Polski) 
Our translations:  FRE
Али мать меня рожала
На горе большое?
Али ведьма зачурала 
Мне гнездо родное?

Напролёт и дни и ночи 
Плачу, как ребёнок;
Сваты прийдут -- нет мне мочи
Выстоять смотрёнок.

Ох, уехал да и сгинул 
Милый за дружиной;
Не сберёг - одну покинул
Панночку с кручиной.

У подружёк в церкви ясно
Свечка дорогает;
У меня одной, несчастной,
Сразу погасает.

В поле осень; лист валится;
Пес наш землю роет,
Сыч на крышу к нам садится:
Чтож ты - скоро? - воет.
Скоро я с тобою, значит,
Свижуся, мой милый!

Али мать меня рожала
На горе большое?
Али ведьма зачурала 
Мне гнездо родное?

Note: the original Polish text is often misattributed to Mickiewicz, according to R. D. Sylvester, Tchaikovsky's Complete Songs. A Companion with Texts and Translations (2002), p. 90.

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Note on Transliterations

Text Authorship:

  • by Lev Aleksandrovich Mey (1822 - 1862) [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Polish (Polski) by Teofil Lenartowicz (1822 - 1893), "Tęsknota"
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Али мать меня рожала", op. 27 (Шесть романсов и песни = Shest' romansov i pesni (Six romances and songs)) no. 5 (1875) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ma mère m'a-t-elle mise au monde", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-03
Line count: 26
Word count: 96

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