Лучше б мне частушки задорно выкликать, А тебе на хриплой гармонике играть, И уйдя обнявшись, на ночь за овсы, Потерять бы ленту из тугой косы. Лучше б мне ребеночка твоего качать, А тебе полтинник в сутки выручать, И ходить на кладбище в поминальный день Да смотреть на белую Божию сирень.
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- by Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), no title, written 1914 [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 Evgeny Klepalov , "Частушка", published 2003 [ voice and piano ], from Romansy na stikhi A. Akhmatovoj, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Частушка", 1914 [ high voice and piano ], from Чётки, на стихи А. Ахматовой, no. 5, Петроград / Москва (Petrograd / Moscow), Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo ) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yury Petrovich Suldin (b. 1987), "Лучше б мне частушки" [sung text not yet checked]
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