Valentina's Russian Folk Song Collection

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Part 1

akh vy, syeni moi, syeni Ah you my hall, hallway

akh ty, zimooshka-zima Oh you winter, winter

akh ty, styep shirokaya Ah you wide steppe

vdol po Pityerskoy Lengthways on the Pityerskaya-street

vdol po oolitse myetyelitsa myetyot A snowstorm sweeps lengthways along the street

vniz po Volgye-ryekye Downstream on the Volga-river

vo dyeryevnye-to bylo Olkhovkye It was just in the village Olkhovka

vo polye byeryozka stoyala The birch stood in a field

vot mchitsya troyka oodalaya The daring troika rushes here

vyydoo l ya na ryechyenkoo I'll go to the river

vykhozhoo odin ya na dorogoo I come out on the road alone

glookhoy, nyevyedomoy taygoyu Out-of-the-way in the unknown taiga

Part 2

dontsy-molodtsy Dontsians-braves

doobinooshka A cudgel

zhigooli Zhigooli

zlatyye gory Golden mountains

iz-za ostrova na stryezhyen From the island to the stream

kak oo nashich oo vorot At our gates

kalinka The little snowball tree.

kalitka The gate.

klyon ty moy opavshiy You, my fallen maple

kogda ya na pochtye sloozhil yamshchikom When I was a coachman at a post office.

korobyeyniki Peddlers

lipa vyekovaya The secular lime

matooshka, chto vo polye pylno Mother, why is there dust in a field?

MIDI files contributed by Valentina Viktorovna Kolybasova.

Visit these sites:
The Ames Hymn Collection
The St. Patrick Children's Hymn Collection
St. Patrick's Civil War Song Collection
The Ames Classical Collection


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