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by Alexei Vasilyevich Timofeyev (1812 - 1883)

Выбор жены
Language: Russian (Русский) 
Не женись на умнице,
На лихой беде!
Не женись на вдовушке,
На чужой жене!
Женишься на вдовушке –
Старый муж придет;
Женишься на умнице –
Голову свернет.

Не женись на золоте,
Тестевом добре!
Не женись на почестях,
Жениной родне!
Женишься на золоте –
Сам продашь себя;
Женишься на почестях –
Пропадай жена!

Много певчих пташечек
В божиих лесах;
Много красных девушек
В русских городах.
Загоняй соловушку
В клеточку твою;
Выбирай из девушек
Пташечку жену.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Alexei Vasilyevich Timofeyev (1812 - 1883), written 1837 [author's text not yet checked 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 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev (1787 - 1851), "Выбор жены" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Nikolay Ivanovich Bakhmetyev (1807 - 1891), "Выбор жены", 1867 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by P. Broun , "Выбор жены" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nikolai Petrovich De Witte (d. 1844), "Выбор жены", 1838 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Andrey Aleksandrovich Katenin (d. 1898), "Выбор жены", 1876 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pavel Semyonovich Makarov (1841 - 1891), "Выбор жены", 1875 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by K. G. Mikhailov , "Выбор жены", 1909 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vladimir Timofeyevich Sokolov (1830 - 1890), "Выбор жены" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nikolai Andreyevich Tivol'sky (b. 1834), "Выбор жены", 1857 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-09-20
Line count: 24
Word count: 74

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