THE OLD-WIFE (Last waltz) Thanks Alice Cooper
AlRu, P4 & Casio-keyboard
I'm just Russian Man
Story behind the song
When these verses have got in my hand I was shaken... In my head the song has begun to sound... Alice Cooper " Yåars Ago "!
When I have finished record, I have seen at a óear of death A.Barkova.... Year of release of an album with a song " Years Ago " .1976. Accident?
Alice, Alice... Your "horrors" seem by such ridiculous on a background of Russian life...
Annushka, light to thee memory and Kingdom of Heaven
26.04.2004
Lyrics
( Verses Ànna Barkova (1901-1976) in processing AlRu - music Alice Cooper in processing AlRu)
The poetess with tragical destiny. The first book "Woman" with the enthusiastic A. Lunatcharsky's foreword was issued in 1922. She has heard on it flatter V. Bryusov's and À.Block's responses. One of the critics she was named « as the Joan of Arc of Russian poetry ». Later poetess was convicted of that, " that has not informed on a conspiracy " and with 1934 on 1939, with 1947 on 1956, with 1957 on 1965 was behind a prickly wire. On A.T. Tvardovski's Deputy inquiry 65-years woman have freed from GULAG. She was completely rehabilitated. The destiny has predicted 22 years prior to it in the poem …
STARUHA (THE OLD-WIFE)
(key to russian verses)
The strange old-wife walks abroad with a stick
Ancient antiquities of an eye.
And her footfall is aimless,
Drunk?
She has walked around all roads,
And happiness was not anywhere.
On fire burned, is frost-bitten,
In a blood sank and in a water.
Its children's coat looks shabby,
And in a coffin she has nothing to dress.
She for a long time wanders already dead,
Also there is nobody to sing the burial-service.
Waits for funeral…
But there is nobody to sing the burial service …
