Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
Murray on SS Lyr Req: Russian folk songs from Paul Hill Chorale (15) Lyr Add: MOSCOW NIGHTS / PODMOSKOVNYE VECHERA 13 Dec 98


Heavens! That sounds a bit ambitious, but good luck with it! I can't find (even in my memory) all the stuff you're after, but try this, the first verse of "Moscow Nights" (Podmoskovnye vechera) -- which means, you know, literally, "Evenings in the suburbs of Moscow".

Ne slishny v sadu dazhe shorokhi,

Vsyo zdes' zamerlo do utra;

Esli b znali vy, kak mne dorogi,

Podmoskovniye vechera.[rep. lines 3-4]

And actually I may as well try giving it in more phonetic form:

Nyeh sleeshny vsadoo dazheh shorokhee,

Vsyaw zdyays zamyerlo do ootrah,

Yeslib znalee vy, kak mnyeh dorogee

Padmaskovny-yeh vyechera.

The Moscow dialect tends to make all unstressed "o"s sound like "a"s, so "podmoskovnye" is like "pad" etc.

Okay-- looking for other stuff. I/m sure the Mudcat crew can come forth with most of what you're after.

Vsyo khoroshevo,

Murray.


Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.