The Great Soul Healer

The Bard has met his Green-Eyed Lord...
Bulat Okoudjava passed away on June 12 in Paris. He was 73.
HATS OFF FOR THE BARD!

Right before the sunsetFollowing the EmperorAs the noise grows weaker
Quietly flutes whiningGenerals are going,So do the voices,
Royal horseback riding;Our own and foreign;Voices past, forgotten -
Emperor is goingTheir fame not stolen,Just the horses riding,
N'front of everybody,Their wounds still calling,Quietly flutes whining
Blue suit, silver liningYet alive, not fallen...Of our hopes rotten...
Hazel-eyed white mare,Next the fighters go,And the smell grows weaker,
Strangely with black hair,Eyebrows knitting low,Smell of smoke and home,
And a matching saddle;Shiny badge that spoils:Times that you were having -
Covered with red blanket,All of them are handsome,Whilst someplace above you,
With the wings that make itAll of them are talents,And some place below
Ready for a battle.All of the are poets.There's Earth and Heaven,
Only Earth and Heaven,
Only Earth... and Heaven.

-- Bulat Okoudjava, "Right Before the Sunset (S�merki. Prir�da.)". Translated by Art Barsky


The game rules: click on the Russian transliterated song name to hear the audio clip; click on the English translated name to see the lyrics in translation (that part is still in progress). The source album and the size are also indicated, where available. If you got NETSCAPE, no additional software is needed; if not, try to find what you need here.

The Song Translation Size (Mins/MB)
Vinogradnaya koctochka
(Staraya gruzinskaya pesnya)		A Grapebone
(An Old Georgian Song)		SIZE
Pesenka o mosckovskom murav'eSong About a Moscow AntSIZE
Poslednii trolleybusThe Last Trolley-busSIZE
Nadezhdy malen'kii orkestrikSmall Orkestra of HopeSIZE

Other sources on Okoudjava:

  • The Okoudjava Page at "Little Russia in San Antonio, TX" maintained by the brightest "Little Russian" there is, Vladimir Pekkel.
  • The Authors' Songs Archive, a huge storeroom full of stuff. After you done with Okoudjava's lyrics here, check out the rest of it. One little catch: you will need KOI-8 fonts for it.

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