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by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925)

`Ekh vy, sani! A koni, koni!
Language: Russian (Русский) 
`Ekh vy, sani! A koni, koni!
Vidno, chert ikh na zemlju prines.
V zalikhvatskom stepnom razgone
Kolokol'chik khokhochet do slez.

Ni luny, ni sobach'ego laja
V daleke, v storone, v pustyre.
Podderzhis', moja zhizn' udalaja,
Ja jeshche ne navek postarel.

Poj, jamshchik, vperekor `etoj nochi,
Khochesh', sam ja tebe podpoju
Pro lukavye devich'i ochi,
Pro veseluju junost' moju.

`Ekh, byvalo, zalomish' shapku,
Da zalozhish' v oglobli konja,
Da priljazhesh' na sena okhapku,—
Vspominaj lish', kak zvali menja.

I otkuda bralas' osanka,
A v polunochnuju tishinu
Razgovorchivaja tal'janka
Ugovarivala ne odnu.

Vse proshlo. Poredel moj volos.
Kon' izdokh, opustel nash dvor.
Poterjala tal'janka golos,
Razuchivshis' vesti razgovor.

No i vse zhe dusha ne ostyla,
Tak prijatny mne sneg i moroz,
Potomu chto nad vsem, chto bylo,
Kolokol'chik khokhochet do slez.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895 - 1925), written 1925 [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 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Chernyavsky , "Эх вы, сани! А кони, кони!" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Grigory Fedorovich Ponomarenko (1921 - 1996), "Эх вы, сани! А кони, кони!" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-08-22
Line count: 28
Word count: 129

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