Dorozhnyje zhaloby (Pushkin, set by M. Bernard) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


 Dolgo l' mne guljat' na svete
 To v koljaske, to verkhom,
 To v kibitke, to v karete,
 To v telege, to peshkom?

 Ne v nasledstvennoj berloge,
 Ne sred' otcheskikh mogil,
 Na bol'shoj mne, znat', doroge
 Umeret' gospod' sulil.

 Na kamen'jakh pod kopytom,
 Na gore pod kolesom,
 Il' vo rvu, vodoj razmytom,
 Pod razobrannym mostom.

 Il' chuma menja podcepit,
 Il' moroz okostenit,
 Il' mne v lob shlagbaum vlepit
 Neprovornyj invalid.

 Il' v lesu pod nozh zlodeju
 Popadusja v storone,
 Il' so skuki okoleju
 Gde-nibud' v karantine.

 Dolgo l' mne v toske golodnoj
 Post nevol'nyj sobljudat'
 I teljatinoj kholodnoj
 Trjufli Jara pominat'?

 To li delo byt' na meste,
 Po Mjasnickoj raz"jezzhat',
[ Ob otstavke, ob neveste,
 O derevne pomyshljat'!]¹

 To li delo rjumka roma,
 Noch'ju son, poutru chaj;
 To li delo, bratcy, doma!...
 Nu, poshjol zhe, pogonjaj!

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¹ Pushkin: "O derevne, o neveste / Na dosuge pomyshljat'!"

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Authorship

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837)

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

Matvei Ivanovich Bernard (1794-1871)

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