Golden Anniversary Choral Spectacular - The Grant Park Music ...

Friday, June 29 and Saturday, June 30, 2012
will be warmed.
Gorko! okh! okh! Nelzya pit! So did our married pair begin
their happy days together.
Nu-zhe, nu-zhe, nu ryumochku vypivai, Now then! Now then!
A nashikh molodykh daryai! Drink to their health, toast our pair.
The bride and bridegroom embrace one another.
CHoRUS
Eta, eta, eta, khot kuda, eta i taper stoit rublya, Drink again, toast the pair,
A kak yei, yei boka nadut, za etaku i dva, And embrace the two.
dva dadut.
Khot by tak, khot by tak, khot by rublikov, This one, this one, this one, this is good,
Khot by pyat, a kogda budet tvoya chest, This one even now cost a ruble,
Khot by rublikov, khot by chest. But if you squeeze it in your hand,
Volga reka razlivaetsya, Squeeze it tightly, it costs double that.
Zyatik u vorot ubivaetsya: I don’t care at all though it costs as much.
“Akh tyoshsha moya, tyoshsha laskovaya!” Now the river Volga overflows
Khot by tak, khot by tak, And before the gate I hear one calling,
Khot by rublikov pyat. “oh mother dear,
A kogda budet tvoya chest, My mother dear
Khot by rublikov, khot by shest. Who calls me.”
oNE oF THE FRIENDS
Ai vy, druzhki, spely, All you silly maidens
Shto devka detinke Tell me who the maiden
Vse boka protolkala. Was who ruled her true love.
V kletochku zvala! If we’ve got your daughter
A otdali nam devku, otdaitya postelku! Let’s have a bed, too!
Those who are warming the bed go out. Fetis and Nastasia are conducted to the bed
and laid in it, after which they left alone, and the door is shut.
ALL
The fathers and mothers settle themselves on a bench before the door, everybody facing them.
Pastelya moya, karavatushka! Lovely little bed
Na karavatushke perinushka, Where I lay me down,
Na perinushke uzgolovitsa. How soft the pillow where I lay my head.
U zgolovitsa odiyalitsa, Soft the pillow where I lay my head,
folded in the soft blankets,
Pod dialitsom dobry molodets. Folded in the blankets, the blankets warm,
Dobry molodets Khvetisushka, See our Fetis Pamfilievitch.
Khvetis Pamfilev
Vorobei vorobku paruet posadivshi The little sparrow makes first his nest,
na karavat. then takes his mate to be with him.
Khvetisushka Nastasyushku tseluit, Fetis holds Nastasia and kisses his bride,
Yon tseluit miluit, Na ruchku kladyot, Kisses her and holds in his hand her little hand.
Ky serdechku zhmyo. Holds her hand and presses it upon his heart,
Akh ty dushka, zhyonushka, Holds her hand and lays it upon his heart.
Dannaya moya poglyadenya, Dear heart, little wife, my own dearest treasure,
Nochnaya moya zabava, My sweet, my honey.
Pazhivyom my s toboi kharashenichka, Dearest flower and treasure, sweetest wife,
Shtoby lyudi nam zavidyvali. Let us live in happiness that all men may envy us.
2012 Program Notes, Book 2 A25