Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky.
This publication presents selected poems and songs of Vladimir Vysotsky, some songs of other authors performed by him and a selection of poems and songs about him, and also a number of poems and songs consonant with his poetry.
Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky.
The Alarm Bell. (“Listen, a bell tolls somewhere...”)
A Song about the New Time. (“Like a toll of the bell, late at night heavy footsteps resounded...”)
Our Sons Go to the Battle. (“Now no one can hear the pulsations of the hearts...”)
He Was Shot in the Fighting. (“All goes wrong, although nothing has changed here of late...”)
The German Combatants. (“The combatants are sound...”)
They stirred up the preadamite evil...
Throw your blues as a cantaloupe rind!..
We’re Turning the Earth. (“From the frontier, we made the earth turn in reverse...”)
The Hill. (“They clung to the hill as if it was their own...”)
Condemned to Life. (“Man, take the road, or sink into the grave!..”)
A Song about the End of the War. (“They’re making long tables of boards in the yard...”)
A Song about the Earth. (“Is the Earth, as they say, burnt and dried?..”)
Hunting for Wild Boars. (“Now the mud is too thick and impassable...”)
Wounds disturb us very seldom...
Now cannons disturb not the silence...
A Song about the Neutral Zone. (“On the Turkish or, perhaps, Turkestani border...”)
A Song about the Fallen Friend. (“All the war I was longing...”)
TWO SONGS ABOUT THE AIR COMBAT. (I. The Song of the Fighter Pilot. (“There are eight opponents...”) II. The Song of the Fighter Plane. (“I’m ‘Yak’ the fighter...”))
I measured in a count-down manner...
A Hymn to the Sea and the Mountains. (“Look, Fortune by herself has set the weather for our trip...”)
The Mist. (“There are numerous marvels after this mist’s bewilderment...”)
The White Silence. (“It’s in each and all centuries been thus on this earth...”)
To My Friends. (“I haven’t discovered what is worthy on the Dry Land...”)
Man Overboard. (“The rugged wind with hellish screeches sang...”)
You won’t discover nameless ships...
For long years, this day was awaited...
In the beginning was the Word...
This night the sea cannot relax...
A Ballad of the Ship’s Boy. (“The rise was rose-colored and diverting...”)
A Pirate Song. (“A mutiny is on, and gulls cry high above...”)
A Corsair. (“For seven years our corsair sailed the seas...”)
A Farewell. (“Having stayed for a while, ships put out to sea...”)
The Storm. (“The world of seamen differs in the root...”)
Become a Seaman. (“One won’t find a fordway in the fire, as well in the ocean...”)
A Ballad of the Abandoned Ship. (“On that day each one said to the captain ‘Hey, man!..’”)
The aborigines ate Captain Cook...
A Farewell to the Mountains. (“To the bustle of towns and the noise of thronged streets...”)
In the Mountains. (“The mountains differ a lot from the plain...”)
A Day. (“Well, now my hands shake not at all...”)
A Ballad of Time. (“Time has brought down the castle and covered with grass...”)
A Song about Hurt Time. (“Let us lift the curtain at least a little bit...”)
We’ve gotten but a twinkling...
There’s no reason in making time...
The clock is ticking quietly...
In Our Time. (“The weight of years becomes a heavy cargo...”)
The Dark. (“Think thou well, there’s the dark on thy way!..”)
The Famous Regiment. (“The colonel kissed the colors’ honored silk...”)
A Ballad of the Children of Books. (“In the world of burnt candles and obligatory prayers...”)
The spring, while there was a short lull...
A Ballad of Hatred. (“When ye visit your forest this spring, ye will see...”)
An Eastern Parable. (“Through all times — preceding, next and present...”)
The Montenegrins. (“The water, by the handful catered...”)
A Ballad of the Free Archers. (“If it’s happed that ye’re sold out...”)
If thou’st found thyself in a strange land...
On Fatal Dates and Figures. (“It’s known that a true poet meets a tragic culmination...”)
A SINGER AT THE MICROPHONE. (I. A Singer at the Microphone. (“I’m on the stage — this open to all eyes space...”) II. The Microphone’s Song. (“I went blind from the pleasant smiles of songsters...”))
Tin Soldiers. (“Still, there will be verse and mathematics...”)
Armed and Very Dangerous. (“Keep it in mind: all signs don’t matter very much...”)
The Goner’s Song. (“There in my bones, just like a lizard, crawls prostration...”)
A Song about the First Lines. (“I strove for the first lines in bygone days...”)
The Mystery of Hippies. (“We’ve left our homes for good and all...”)
The Silly Dream. (“The silly dream lambasted me...”)
My Hamlet. (“Just a few things I’m going to explain...”)
A Parable of Truth and Lie. (“Delicate Truth took a walk in a lovely apparel...”)
There’s a Rock in the Steppe. (“There’s a rock in the steppe...”)
Around the clock — day and night...
Don’t thou fall into gloom nor grow heated...
I’m an exotic man, to put it mildly...
The Sharpshooter. (“Come on to drink ye...”)
Chances. (“We all seem to be living, but...”)
Make a bridge on the occasion...
Be Thankful. (“Don’t care if thou’rt a nail and not a hammer...”)
Everything Is Relative. (“Each man to his taste: there are thousands of notions...”)
What I Hate. (“I hate the fatal end with any reason...”)
The Guitar. (“One modern musician informed me in detail...”)
A Song of the Old House. (“There stood a house known to the citizens all round...”)
And people continued to complain...
There’s the main entrance, but here’s what...
Rain or shine, unbuttoned is my coat...
Someone Else’s Rut. (“But I’m to blame for my bad lot...”)
A Road Story. (“I’ve grown up a handsome lad...”)
The Motorist’s Song. (“I threw my tested for long years staff off...”)
The Horizon. (“The highway’s swept and washed, and I want you to curse...”)
About a Car Crash. (“Maybe, ye’re crossing a road, safe and sound...”)
Alyoha. (“Yesterday we got...”)
Don’t be mistaken with my young age...
I never thought to do him a bad turn...
My beloved will mourn for my ill fortune...
The Silver Strings. (“As I carry my guitar — walls, do separate!..”)
The Meter’s Ticking. (“He said to us, ‘She verily is mine!’...”)
He, Who Was with Her Before. (“I neither drank nor sang that night...”)
An Appeal. (“There’s no fakir on Earth who could be my companion...”)
I’m on the Job. (“I’m on the job and with a knife...”)
The Card-Sharpers. (“Yesterday we played a game...”)
The Criminal Code. (“Films touch not us, nor do it any prose...”)
The Detective’s Song. (“Nat Pinkerton’s a sleuth no one can beat...”)
HUNTING FOR WOLVES. (I. Hunting for Wolves. (“All-out efforts are tearing my tendons...”) II. Hunting from Helicopters. (“Like a razor, the daybreak slashed over the eyes...”) III. As for today, I’ve passed initial phases...)
THE ESCAPE. (I. Sonny, listen to a tale... II. The Escape. (“Once there was an escape...”))
Life Was Rushing. (“I’m from Rostov the Great, and I’m a foundling...”)
We Have Gone. (“Our mothers browbeat us in our childhood...”)
All Is Iced. (“Our Globe is all covered with ice...”)
The Sail. (“The screw has dissected a seal with a whack...”)
My Gypsy Song. (“When I sleep, a yellow light...”)
It’s Painful for Poetry. (“Have wheezed out in agony odes...”)
The Execution of the Mountain Echo. (“Close to the dry stars, where the daredevils seek for their Mecca...”)
Our port isn’t visited by steamers...
If there’s but a sadness in your soul...
Perhaps I want to cry forgotten words...
An outsider will step in my soul...
The fords are deep, the bridges have burnt down...
My Distress, My Sorrow. (“I was walking, stepping first as on the heel as on the toe...”)
A Gypsy Song. (“Like a stone, hangs on my neck that melancholy damned...”)
The Messenger. (“From behind distant hills, I know not where are those hills...”)
The Navigator Single. (“Once the Lord sent to some parents an odd sonny...”)
I Abandoned My Deal. (“I abandoned my deal, though the business was quite advantageous...”)
Tumen Oil. (“One queer fish of the geologic group...”)
ABOUT THE PROPHETS. (I. A Song about the Seeress Cassandra. (“Besieged by Greeks, so many months Troy couldn’t be taken...”) II. A Song about the Wise Oleg. (“As now, Prince Oleg is assembling his host...”))
A Robber Song. (“In the darkest corner of...”)
Paradise Apples. (“Once I’ll certainly die, each of us reaches this destination...”)
Thank Thee, O Good Lord, for Thy grace...
I perceive neither anger nor blue...
The Wooden Clothing. (“We’re more often jovial than filled with hate and loathing...”)
A Ballad of the Past. (“I’m afraid I don’t know the precise...”)
There is no more beautiful country...
A SONG OF ROSSIA. (I. A Song of Rossia. (“What’ll my breathing, what’ll my looking bring to me today?..”) II. A Song of the Volga. (“There without cessation, went on our Mother Volga...”))
I’ll tell you what will happen, friends...
Life with the strong rope was tied...
When I please my soul with songs...
Give the starved dogs ends or bones...
About Signs of the Zodiac. (“It’s lie that above us the gulf or the dark...”)
Forty-Nine Days. (“A wave’s running over a wave...”)
A Song about Notes. (“I’ve come to know about the notes in full...”)
A Ballad of the Bath-House. (“Send Thy blessing and absolution...”)
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. (I. The Last Cheater. (“Health to you, our favorable viewers...”) II. The Final Song. (“So here’s what: life’s beautiful, comrades...”))
A Song about the Transmigration of Souls. (“Some people trust Muhammad, and some — Jesus for salvation...”)
Moscow to Odessa. (“I’m set to fly from Moscow to Odessa...”)
At the Masquerade. (“I want to be awakened with all my soul...”)
I lead my life in abject beggary...
While you in the bathroom with glazed tiles...
With my parents-in-law now I could be...
Cholera. (“No person has redundancy of food...”)
There’s no way for a long time...
I can’t seek the oblivion of sleep...
About the Chinese Problem. (“There are many so different nations on the Earth...”)
He’d gotten whatever wanted...
Don’t Be Sad! (“If it’s happed that thou feel’st like hell...”)
The Black Gold. (“Above me there is soil, not outer space...”)
Tsunami. (“The saying sounds too ornate and florid...”)
A Letter to “Incredible but True”. (“Dearest television program!..”)
When play cards the professional players...
A Song about the King’s Shooter. (“In a kingdom, where all was neat and quiet...”)
A WEDDING SONG. (I. Skomorokhs at the Fair. (“Hey you, worthy men, poor and wealthy ones!..”) II. Nightingale the Robber’s Serenade. (“Go thou out, for thee I’ll a serenade whistle!..”) III. The Tsar’s Decree. (“If we at this doleful hour...”) IV. The Duo of the Cashier and the Treasurer. (“When the treasury is bare...”) V. A Marching Song. (“It’d be unjustified to blame us soldiers...”) VI. Glory to the Soldier! (“Yesterday we wished good fortune...”) VII. A Wedding Song. (“Thou bell-ringer, now be not asleep...”))
The Song of Goger-Moger. (“There’s no way of those well-read blockheads...”)
About Sergey Thomin. (“I grew up like all others pre-war youngsters...”)
There are no more green oak trees...
A Hymn to School. (“From class to class, we’ll go up as if on stairs...”)
When whatsoever possible was reached...
The Antipodes’ March. (“If it befalls the earth has swallowed thou up...”)
The King’s Procession. (“We’re tight, bold and brave in our mighty formation...”)
The Gutsy Fellow. (“There lives a gutsy fellow, Barry...”)
The Two Brothers. (“In the village of Big Forks...”)
A Song about Breakage. (“About a thousand years ago...”)
An Unusual Fable. (“There, reigning o’er his nation...”)
A Strange Jumping. (“Hey ye, those whose lips are blue!..”)
The Young Frogs. (“Not with no purpose, the young frogs...”)
A TALE ABOUT THE WOOD DWELLERS.
What to do? None of them had a thought...
I pass dames neither silently nor easy...
A Tale about the Ill-Fated Wood Dwellers. (“At the world’s end, where the sky is free of clouds...”)
A Song-Tale about the Evil Forces. (“There’s a thick protected forest...”)
Songs of the Evil Forces. (“‘I’m Baba Yaga...’”)
An Outing to the City. (“Entirely worn-out...”)
A Song-Tale about the Djinni. (“Wine’s quite healthy, people say, doctors recommend it...”)
How in one old Russian tale...
A Travel to the Past. (“Oh, that house where I was — I wouldn’t find it again...”)
Such a plumber you haven’t seen for ages...
A Ballad of Short Happiness. (“They blow the horns, ‘Make haste, make haste!..’”)
The obstacles we have are begotten by our age...
The gentle animals and predatory beasts...
A Song-Fable about the Scapegoat. (“In a national reserve — I’ve forgotten its name...”)
A Song about the White Elephant. (“Far away in India, since the ancient times...”)
A Song about the Mongooses. (“‘Down with snakes! They’re indeed right and left there!..’”)
The Herbarium. (“The dashing proletarians...”)
The Sea-Gull. (“O’er the dark blue sea wave, there’s an ordinary flight of gulls soaring...”)
The Nature Reserve. (“With animal droves, are swarming the woods...”)
We’re horses, tried in battles for centuries...
The Wayward Horses. (“There’s a precipice beside me, on the brink of it I’m driving...”)
BLACK EYES. (I. The Chase. (“Driving through the woods...”) II. The Old House. (“What’s this house, so still...”))
The Goalkeeper. (“Yes, today I’m at my best, it’s not fallacious...”)
A Song about the Right Insider. (“In the short grass, the ball keeps a low profile...”)
The Weightlifter’s Song. (“Weightlifting’s not a recent innovation...”)
The Long-Jumper’s Song. (“What is it? Why do fans cry so loud?..”)
The High-Jumper’s Song. (“I run, I push... And what a shame, by heaven!..”)
The Sentimental Boxer’s Song. (“A bang, a bang, once more a bang...”)
Who For What Runs. (“Four champions are running on the course...”)
Tap Dance. (“All things which are trivial...”)
The Morning Exercise. (“Don’t sleep, comrades, do awake...”)
The Tightrope Walker. (“He didn’t ever for rank or for height hope...”)
My comrade now isn’t here, but...
All the cares are today of no importance...
A Song about Friendship. (“It happed so that our ways-roads are laid apart...”)
A Song about a Friend. (“If ye’ve found someone new near you...”)
The Song of Mar’yushka. (“Where didst find thou, Mar’yushka, the strength to overcome it...”)
We Are Waiting for You. (“It’s happened so that the men are gone out...”)
The White Waltz. (“Oh, what a ball was! Nerves, motion, sound were at the height...”)
The Glorification of Father. (“Go you all to our banquet...”)
A Ballad of Love. (“When waters of the Great Flood reacquired...”)
A Lullaby. (“Hush-a-bye, my baby...”)
A Lyrical Song. (“Here spruce-branches shiver, suspended in sleep...”)
The Crystal House. (“If King Neptune’s wealth belongs to me...”)
The Ships Love. (There lived on the sea...)
More really than a dream and a delirium...
A road, a road — no count for steps...
As for nice girls, they’re loved more often and fervently...
People at parting said good-bye to the sea-wizard...
The Far East. (“Leaf in the cover, how long thou fared’st...”)
Catherine. (“Give me a glance! My heart is broken, dear Catherine...”)
A Sad Love Song. (“One fine day I walked in the fresh air...”)
You should know that I was a stoic ’fore...
TWO LOVE SONGS. (I. She was so beautiful, so stately and so grand... II. She was both my bliss and my pain...)
A Ballad of the Flowers. (“No reason to ask for pardon...”)
When she arrives, he’s always out...
A Family in the Stone Age. (“Thou, silly, give me back my stone ax!..”)
Family Affairs in Ancient Rome. (“Once patricians, in the evening...”)
About Love in the Middle Ages. (“I killed a hundred Saracens to glorify my dame...”)
About Love in the Renaissance Epoch. (“Once a dispirited painter...”)
It’s no use to talk to thee!..
A Dialogue in front of the Television. (“‘Look, Vanya, honey, at these funny clowns!..’”)
The Physical Students’ March. (“Paths to the antiworld aren’t trodden even now...”)
The Space Villains’ March. (“You won’t ever trust me, nor just grasp our situation...”)
A Lecture on the State of Modern Science. (“Don’t send your little ones to the physics college...”)
A SONG ABOUT THE ANTI-SEMITES.
That neurosurgeon was fantastic...
Our keel glides on the Don or on the Spree...
A Song about the Anti-Semites. (“To go on the highway, no strong reason see I...”)
Mishka Shifman. (“Mishka Shifman’s a smart guy...”)
Though I’m awake, I dream prophetic verses...
It’s my fate — to the finishing line, to the cross...
There’s only ice above me and below...
I stubbornly aspire to the bottom...
THE CASE HISTORY. (I. A Big Mistake. (“I was as vulnerable as weak...”) II. No Mistake. (“On the wall, there were some portraits of well-known bearded people...”) III. The Case History. (“The doctors vanished in the haze...”))
The Event. (“They told me in the tavern yesterday...”)
The Monument. (“Dreading bullets or words not an ounce...”)
The Interrupted Flight. (“Someone spotted a fruit that was green...”)
I know not whether the crowd of my friends...
Today I’m calm because He told me everything...
When it came to false names I had forty...
My Black Man. (“Oh, my black man who wears a gray costume!..”)
Wish I Could Sink. (“Aches and complaints...”)
The Appeal. (“I can read ‘Dorian Gray’ or ‘Faustus’, however...”)
I need not your engagements...
FROM THE ROAD DIARY. (I. The awaiting was long, and not long was the parting... II. Oh, these narrow roads... III. As the woods’ going off, our view’s going up...)
No myself here, I’ve left Mother Rossia!..
Mother bore me in a white, just as sugar, shirt...
Now I gallop behind all the riders...
I Write to You. (“My dear correspondents, thank you warmly...”)
Songs of Other Authors Performed by
Vladimir Vysotsky.
Anonymous. I’ll wake up in a morning...
Petre Gruzinsky. Such is, my love, the destiny of thieves...
On the basis of prison songs. Taganka. (“An old Gypsy with cards... Soon there’ll be a long trail...”)
Iosif Aleshkovsky. A Letter to Stalin. (“You comrade Stalin is an earnest scientist...”)
David Samoylov. A Soldier Song. (“Ah, thou field, ah, thou field!..”)
David Markish. Our greatly praised world is so pitchy...
Pierre-Jean de Béranger. The Beggar-Woman. (“Where the snowflakes whirl over yonder flags...”)
Ivan Turgenev. On the Road. (“Gray is the morning, the morning is misty...”)
Yaroslav Smelyakov. If I’m Suddenly Sick. (“If I’m suddenly sick, I’ll refuse to appeal to the doctors...”)
Novella Matveyeva. The Wind. (“What a strong wind now...”)
Anonymous. When the Ocean is in a rage...
Vladimir Chuevsky. Shine on, shine on, my wondrous star...
Leo Zingertal. In the market in Odessa...
Sergey Yesenin. The Orphan. (“Masha has a harsh stepmother...”)
Poems and Songs on Vladimir Vysotsky.
Bulat Okudzhava. On Volodya Vysotsky. (“I was going to write a good song on Volodya Vysotsky...”)
Alexander Gorodnitsky. In Memory of Vladimir Vysotsky. (“The Poet’s dead. Such was the death of Hamlet...”)
Anonymous. On the Death of Vladimir Vysotsky. (“Horses, horses, horses, horses...”)
Nikita Vysotsky. There are no prophets in my own land...
Anonymous. The Poet’s dead! — a slave to honor...
Vsevolod Abdulov. On the Ninth Day after the Funeral. (“He was so rich in friends, and each of them could...”)
Anatoly Zhigulin. Like a wolf, I’m surrounded with flags...
Igor Kokhanovsky. Lived a poet ’mongst us...
Igor Kokhanovsky. Shan’t Meet Again. (“How good friends were we, how closely walked...”)
Yury Vizbor. A Letter. (“I write to thee, Volodya, these words from the Garden Ring...”)
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