Speaking of anarchists

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Re: Mongol Shuudan

They're not exactly overflowing with a love for humanity, are they?  Lyrics-wise anyway.  It's interesting that a body of folk-anarchist songs from revolutionary Russia has survived. A forgotten bit of folk history, at least outside of Russia.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>


>
>Maybe it's just as well, as some lyrics are pretty graphic. The music and 
>the overall style actually are pretty similar to the folk anarchist songs of 
>the time. Specially for you, here is a rough translation of The Black 
>Anarchist's Song (Ïåñíÿ ÷åðíîãî àíàðõèñòà):
>
>
>Fighting is all I need, it's my life.
>Stop! I said, stop, what's on your hat?
>And you have an officer's shoulder-belt!
>Get off your horse, you ugly-face,
>You are a saboteur, let's go to the edge of the village,
>Your red bow will be unsewed by a bullet.
>
>Refrain: The mother-truth is a dirty rag, cut it in two! (idiomatic 
>expression 'to cut mother-truth' - to tell home truth)
>
>The sky is blue, the sabre is new
>The plaits are red, the woman is naked,
>The woman is white, the woman is fresh.
>Drop down your pants, or I'll stab you to death!
>An apple burst open, worms crawled out.
>I butchered that woman, a commissar's widow, with a sabre.
>
>Refrain.
>
>I put cartridges into the barrels, here comes a stranger.
>I took away his Nagan, I don't know what's come upon me.
>I did him in near a wall.
>A boat steams down the Volga, there are girls in the saloon,
>Everything will belong to me, this is revolution.
>Hands off my stuff,  those who've managed to grab more than others are 
>attaboys.
>
>Refrain.
>
>
>Sounds funny in translation, but the original is pretty articulate.
>
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