the Russian Birthday Song with Jason Webley

This is a great illustration of Jason's statement that his shows are 1% him, and 99% the audience. People take the queue, and make a good time for themselves around his music.

The sound on this video is awful. It also has bobbing heads. I don't expect any of you to enjoy it at all.

I found out later that the man joining him on stage is Chervona band leader Andre Pitersky! He brought gig leaflets to my Russian teacher. Their music is irresistably lively.
http://www.myspace.com/chervona

Poost begoot neooklyooshl
Peshehodee po loosham
Ee voda po asfaltoo rekoi
Ee neyasno prohosheem
V etot dyen nepogoshee
pochemoo ya vesyelee takoi

Chorus:
Ee ya eegrayoo na garmoshkye
Oo prohosh na veedoo
K soshaleneeyoo dyen roshdneeya
Tolko raz v godoo

Shot in Portland, Oregon, Reed College

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jason
• webley
• concert
• portland
• reed
• college
• guitar
• russian
• birthday
• song

[kieliobow]

Ty. Where was this anyway? A party i assume? lots of people seemed to know the words.

[JadyLester]

A concert at Reed College, where for some reason there happened to be several Russians!

[JadyLester]

Oh, chorus starts with E rather than Dm... didn't notice that...

[kieliobow]

Anyone have the tabs to this? This would be awesome to play at party, and I'm russian so i know the lyrics :)

[JadyLester]

I don't have tabs but it's pretty simple to work out from these chords: Am, E, E, Am, Dm, Am, E, Am, E,Am! Chorus: Dm, Am, G, C, Dm, Am, E, Am, E,Am!

Got it?

[DreamHardPhantom]

@hevidt; Please use the Cyrillic alphabet when writing Russian! (search for a Russian keyboard online to use)

:]

[jaspers22]

As a hidden track on Only Just Beginning.

You should check out his forum, someone made a thread about it, it might interest you ;D

[wa77le]

happy elevenniversary Jason

[Muzikafreak92]

He'll be back there again on the 20th. I'm so excited!

[rickey1037]

is this on any of his albums?

[JadyLester]

They are two Russian fans, the first one is the head of another band, and they just got up to rile up the audience.

[hevidt]

vot eta da!!! ya tozhe etu pesnu lublu. the russian version is much better:)

thanks for the awesome video!!!

[toodamnperky]

Ah, the infamous Reed College shows...

[salina234]

it works

i like it

but in russian its better

[00bean00]

Search on Google or YouTube for "Песенка крокодила Гены - Russian "happy birthday" song". It has the text and chords on it.