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Moonlight

Mnye nye sp i tsya, nye lezh i tsya,

i son m i nya nye biry o t.

Ya s-khad i l bý k S a she v g o sti,

da nye zn a yu gdye zhývy o t.

I cannot fall asleep, not stay in bed,

sleep will not fetch me.

I would like to visit Sasha now,

but I do not know the way.

Ya s-khad i l bý k S a she v g o sti,

da nye zn a yu gdye zhývy o t.

Papros i l bý tovar i sha

moi tov a rish dovidy o t.

I would like to visit Sasha now,

but I do not know the way.

I could ask my friend,

my friend would show me the way, sure.

Papros i l bý tovar i sha

moi tov a rish dovidy o t.

No tov a rish l u tshe, kr a she,

b a yus, S a shu ataby o t.

I could ask my friend,

my friend would show me the way.

But my friend is better and more beautiful,

I am afraid he will alienate Sasha from me.

Sv e tit my e syats, sv e tit y a sný,

sv e tit by e laya zary a ,

osvet i la put'-dar o shku

vdol do S a shina dvor a .

The moon is shining, bright and clear,

shining with its white light,

and it illuminated the whole small path

all the way to Sasha's farmstead.

Padkhazh u ya k S a she, k d o mu,

no agny a u S a shi nyet.

Pastutsh a l ya pod ok o shkom –

m o ya S a sha kr e pko spit.

And when I come to Sasha's house

I see no lights.

I knocked at the small window –

my girl-friend Sasha is fast asleep.

"St ý dno, st ý dno t i bye, S a sha,

so vetsh e ra r a no spat'!"

"Shameful, shameful for you, Sasha,

to sleep so early in the evening!"

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"A tiby e , moi drug, stýdny e ye

do pol u notshi guly a t'!"

"It is even more shameful for you, my friend,

to roam and ramble until midnight!"

Words and music: Russian folksong

Pronunciation:

a as in "b a r", e as in "b e d", i as in "b i d", o as in "b o re", u as in "bl u e"

y = as in " y ellow" / ý = dull i , as in "b i ll"

s = always voiceless, as in " s on" / z = voiced, as in " z one"

sh = voiceless, as in "me sh " / zh = voiced, like the s in "mea s ure"

kh = mostly rough, like the ch in Scotch "lo ch ", but smooth when "e" or "i" follows

a , e , i , o , u , y = the underlined vowel signifies the stressed syllable of a word.

Musical notation, transcription and analogous translation: Kai Kracht

Comment:

Of this cheerful, frolicsome dance song several text versions are known, and they all are witty, roguish, cheeky. On certain

occasions you easily can add a few rhymes of your own, too, because form and contents of the verses are rather unpretentious.

Maybe that is the reason why this song is often performed only with instruments – the racy melody is more important than the

words at any rate. You might say that this song is an obligatory stock-piece of every balalaika orchestra.

Mostly the performance begins at a slow pace, but the tempo is increased from verse to verse until the fingers are gliding over

the strings like a whirlwind ... Only when the last dancer gets out of breath and gives up, a long balalaika tremolo catches up the

rapid tempo and leads over to a last verse which begins very slowly again, with a coquettishly accentuated rhythm, but then quickly

grows faster and faster and in the end abruptly stops with a mighty blow.

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