У самовара (U samovara) (English translation)

Artist: Leonid Utesov (Леонид Утёсов, Leonid Utyosov)
Featuring artist: Pyotr Leshchenko
Also performed by: Alexander Malinin
Song: У самовара (U samovara) 2 translations
Translations: English, French

Russian

У самовара (U samovara)

Ночка снежная,

А у меня на сердце лето,

Жёнка нежная,-

Пускай завидуют мне это.

Думы мои одне -

Побыть скорее с ней наедине.

Тёмна ночка

Покроет всё, не выдаст нас,

И будет дочка.

У самовара я и моя Маша,

А на дворе совсем уже темно.

Как в самоваре, так кипит страсть наша!

И месяц смотрит ласково в окно.

Маша чай мне наливает,

А взор её так много обещает:

У самовара я и моя Маша,

Вприкуску чай пить будем до утра!

Submitted by Jadis

Jadis on Mon, 21/01/2019 - 16:22

Submitter's comments:

Adaptation russe d'une chanson polonaise ("Przy samowarze") de Andrzej Włast, sur une mélodie de Fanny Gordon (Faina Markowna Kwiatkowska, née à Yalta). Fox-trot.

English translation (equirhythmic, rhyming)

At the Samovar

Snowy night outside,

But my heart's joyful like it's summer,

My sweet tender wife, -

Let them be jealous [in their slumber].

The only thought comes on:

How soon will I be left with her alone.

Dark night's naughty:

It hides all things, it won't bewray,

And we'll get daughter.

By boiling tea pot I sit with my Masha,

And it's already so dark outside.

And our passion boils like tea in Russia!

And crescent moon is our tender guide.

Masha's pouring me some hot tea,

And her eyes hint at so much, make me dotty:

By boiling tea pot I sit with my Masha,

Till morning we'll drink tea with sugar bits!

Submitted by St. Sol

St. Sol on Tue, 22/01/2019 - 21:07

Added in reply to request by Jadis

Jadis

Author's comments:

[ER-p] equirhythmic translation for singing along.
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Samovar (RU): (lit.) - "self-boiler," a highly decorated metallic
water boiling urn, traditionally used in Russia to make tea.

thanked 7 times

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Comments

Jadis

Wed, 23/01/2019 - 07:31

Thank you ! I guess you might have kept the word "samovar", it's well-known abroad too. I liked "our passion boils like tea in Russia!", perhaps a new idiom to add to the list ?

Igeethecat

Wed, 23/01/2019 - 07:49

Да не, идиомой должно быть «By boiling tea pot I sit with my darling”
Cheers, St

St. Sol

Wed, 23/01/2019 - 13:40

English "sAmovar" has a stressing pattern unsuitable for equirhythmic translation of Russian "samovAr" - that's the reason for changing it.

Jadis

Thu, 24/01/2019 - 08:54

I tried a French adaptation. We're lucky, for once the stress in French is he same as in Russian !

annabellanna

Thu, 24/01/2019 - 09:02

The same in Italian too. And it's a well-known word. Better "samovar" than "tea-pot", I guess.English speakers could try to pronounce this word with its right stress...

Jadis

Thu, 24/01/2019 - 09:17

Well, as a French speaker, I'd rather not comment this, because usually French people have a very strange conception of pronunciation and accentuation of foreign languages...