---
title: 'На Руси святой'
date: 2024-07-23
language: ru
project: ['Полуживые']
repo: 'asa'
seconds: 157
mp3Bytes: 6406973
explicit: false
album: who-is-happy-in-russia
track: 1
credits:
  lyrics: ['Николай Некрасов']
en:
  title:
    translation: 'In Holy Rus'
---

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«Кушай тюрю, Яша!
Молочка-то нет!»
— «Где ж коровка наша?»
— «Увели, мой свет!
Барин для приплоду
Взял её домой!»
Славно жить народу
На Руси святой!

«Где же наши куры?» —
Девчонки орут.
«Не орите, дуры!
Съел их земский суд;
Взял ещё подводу
Да сулил постой…»
Славно жить народу
На Руси святой!

Чуть из ребятишек,
Глядь — и нет детей:
Царь возьмёт мальчишек,
Барин — дочерей!
Одному уроду
Вековать с семьёй.
Славно жить народу
На Руси святой!

На Руси святой
x4

На Руси святой (славно жить народу!)
x8

На Руси святой
x4

Кушай тюрю, Яша!

<!-- lyrics:en -->

“Eat your [_tyurya_][^tyurya-en], Yasha!
There’s no milk, you see!”
“Where’s our little cow gone?”
“They took her, my love!
The master led her home
To breed calves for him!”
What a fine life the people have
In holy Rus!

[^tyurya-en]: _Tyurya_ — bread crumbled into kvass or water, the Russian peasant’s food when there was nothing else.

“Where have our hens gone?”
The little girls cry.
“Stop your crying, silly things!
The district court ate them;
It took a cart as well
And promised to quarter soldiers here…”
What a fine life the people have
In holy Rus!

The moment they are out of childhood,
Look — the children are gone:
The tsar takes the boys,
The master the daughters!
Only the cripple is left
To live out his days at home.
What a fine life the people have
In holy Rus!

In holy Rus
x4

In holy Rus (what a fine life the people have!)
x8

In holy Rus
x4

Eat your _tyurya_, Yasha!