Here s the Mail Troika Rushing Leonid Kharitonov 1987

Leonid Kharitonov — «Here's the Mail Coach-and-Three (Troika) Rushing»
Russian folk song

Performance by the singer in the television show Song, Romance, Waltz, accompanied by the Osipov Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments, under the leadership of conductor Nikolay Kalinin, 1987.

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Short description:

Winter. The mail troika is rushing along the frozen Volga river. The coachman, a young guy is humming some sad tune shaking his head. Then a friendly passenger asked him, why he looked so sad. And the coachman tells him his life story. He told him that he had been fallen in love for already a year. But the village headman, the infidel Tatar, scolded him all the time about it. Very soon Christmastide would come and his beloved should marry another man, rich and hateful one… And that she would never see again those beautiful days they had… The coachman told the story, stopped his troika and gave a deep sorrowful sigh...

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Леонид Харитонов — «Вот мчится тройка почтовая»
Русская народная песня

Слова:

Вот мчится тройка почтовая
По Волге-матушке зимой.
Ямщик, уныло напевая,
Качает буйной головой.
Ямщик, уныло напевая,
Качает буйной головой.

«О чем задумался, детина? -
Седок приветливо спросил: -
Какая на сердце кручина?
Скажи, тебя кто огорчил?»

«Ах, милый барин, добрый барин!
Вот скоро год, как я люблю.
А нехристь староста-татарин
Меня журит, а я терплю.

Ах, милый барин, скоро святки,
А ей не быть уже моей;
Богатый выбрал, да постылый,
Ей не видать отрадных дней».

Ямщик умолк и кнут ременный
С голицей за пояс заткнул.
«Родные… Стой, неугомонные!» -
Сказал, сам горестно вздохнул.
«Родные… Стой, неугомонные!» -
Сказал, сам горестно вздохнул.

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Here's the mail troika rushing
Along the Volga River in Winter
The coachman is humming some sad tune
And shaking his head
The coachman is humming some sad tune
And shaking his head
 
«What are you thinking of, young lad?» -
A friendly passenger asked him,
«What torments your heart?
Tell me, who made you so sad?»
 
«Oh, dear sir, my good sir!
It's been a year since I fell in love.
But the village headman
scolds me for it and I have to take it!
 
Oh, good sir, Christmastide will come soon
But she will never be mine again!
A rich and hateful one took her from me,
So she'll never again see beautiful days»
 
The coachman finished his story
And put away his whip.
«Hey, restless horses, stop!» -
He said and gave a sorrowful sigh
«Hey, restless horses, stop!» -
He said and gave a sorrowful sigh

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Vot mchitsya troika pochtovaya
Po Volge-matushke zimoi.
Yamschik, unylo napevaya,
Kachaet buinoi golovoi.
Yamschik, unylo napevaya,
Kachaet buinoi golovoi.

«O chem zadumalsya, detina? -
Sedok privetlivo sprosil: -
Kakaya na serdce kruchina?
Skaji, tebya kto ogorchil?»

«Ah, milyi barin, dobryi barin!
Vot skoro god, kak ya lyublyu.
A nehrist' starosta-tatarin
Menya jurit, a ya terplyu.

Ah, milyi barin, skoro svyatki,
A ei ne byt' uje moei;
Bogatyi vybral, da postylyi,
Ei ne vidat' otradnyh dnei».

Yamschik umolk i knut remennyi
S golicei za poyas zatknul.
«Rodnye… Stoi, neugomonnye!» -
Skazal, sam gorestno vzdohnul.
«Rodnye… Stoi, neugomonnye!» -
Skazal, sam gorestno vzdohnul.

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Please watch: «Concert of the Alexandrov Red Army Choir (1962)»
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVX-YVLRGwk
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