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Kon' (Horse; Russian: Конь) is a popular Russian song, first performed by the pop band Lyube in 1994. The music was written by Igor Matvienko, and the lyrics by his long-time co-author Alexander Shaganov. The song is extremely popular, performed by many artists, and has acquired the status of a quasi-"folk" song, [1] performed at family ...
Paul Robeson recorded the song in 1942 under the title "Song of the Plains", sung both in English and Russian. It was released on his Columbia Recordings album Songs of Free Men (1943). The Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson recorded a version of the song in 1967 under the title "Stepp, min stepp" (steppe, my steppe) on the album Jazz på ryska ...
The song has been performed in several variants, sometimes expanded to up to eleven verses, [2] but in the most common variant as sung by modern interpreters, it is reduced to four verses, removing the mention of Razin and reducing the three omens in the dream to a single one. [3] These lyrics may be translated as:
With the beginning of World War I, the Russian writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky penned the text of the 1915 song "March of the Siberian Regiment" to the tune of "Unhitch the Horses, Boys." Later, the same melody was used in the Russian Civil War song " Po dolinam i po vzgoriam ".
The "Song of the Volga Boatmen" (known in Russian as Эй, ухнем! [Ey, ukhnyem!, "Yo, heave-ho!"], after the refrain) is a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev and published in his book of folk songs in 1866. [1] It was sung by burlaks, or barge-haulers, on the Volga River. Balakirev published it with only one ...
You, my black horse, Lead on and march! "Wait, wait, my Cossack, your girl is crying, How can you leave me, Just think about it." Refrain: |: Maybe, maybe it would have been better not to leave, Maybe, maybe it would have been better not to love, Maybe, maybe it would have been better to not know her And now, and now is time to forget. :|
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The song is one of the best-known works of the composer, having been popularised by both ensembles carrying the name of the Red Army Choir, namely the Alexandrov Ensemble and MVD Ensemble. Novikov and Oshanin were members of a military troupe at the front and the song was composed under artillery fire at Zhizdra . [ 1 ]