Comment
Recorded from
Nikolaj Lixachev
in 1986. The song describes the leaving of loved ones from Nelemnoe to Zyrjanka.
Translation
(8-1) Why shall we go on the way, on which we see them off?
(8-2) There was a little bird when the young people were leaving.
(8-3) It flew there and we went there.
(8-4) We went there, but my soul didn't go on the road.
(8-5) If I had been very young, fifty years old, then I would have done it.
(8-6) I wouldn't have stayed seeing them off on the road to Zyrjanka.
(8-7) On the long road I am looking so very far away, but I will see them off on my dear road anyway.
(8-8) I will find them anyway by walking with my feet. I will not stay.
(8-9) Why don't I have enough strength for that road?
Glosses