Monotonously Rings the Bell (Russian) - High Version

(Also see the original version of this song here on this channel, sung two semitones lower than this. This one is the LATEST new version. This one is sung at the same pitch as the version of the Red Army Chorus tenor, as described below.)

This is an amateur rendition of an old Russian folksong, "Odnozvuchno Gremit Kolokol'chik" (Однозвучно гремит колокольчик). As implied above, this version is based on the way it is sung by the Red Army Chorus (also on YouTube, at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=himc214KJmU&feature=related).

The backtrack for this rendition, which simulates the Red Army Chorus behind the singer, was created by a Russian musician who wished to be anonymous. What a gift that person has given me here! Thanks very, very much to that musician for the accompaniment!

The video is my first done with meticulous care, and includes English subtitles. If you read the words, you will envisage someone riding along a field in a coach listening to the singing of the coachman against the backdrop of the continual, tinkling sound of the bell attached to the horses or coach itself, as it meanders its way along, perhaps in the dark of night. The coach occupant is moved to tears, as he or she remembers other times and the beauty of some past memories. Finally, the coachman (coach driver) goes quiet, and all that is heard is the bell. And, before the coach occupant is nothing but the long road ahead. I find that beautiful, and this song has always moved me, ever since I learned some Russian long ago in university.

Однозвучно гремит колокольчик,
И дорога пылится слегка,
И уныло по ровному полю
Разливается песнь ямщика.

Столько грусти в той песне унылой,
Столько грусти в напеве родном,
Что в душе моей хладной, остылой
Разгорелося сердце огнем.

И припомнил я ночи иные
И родные поля, и леса,
И на очи, давно уж сухие,
Набежала, как искра, слеза.

Однозвучно гремит колокольчик,
И дорога пылится слегка.
И замолк мой ямщик, а дорога
Предо мной далека, далека...

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Music

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• Russian
• folksong
• Red Army Chorus