Murubutu — L'ussaro triste song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "L'ussaro triste" by Murubutu.

Lyrics

Questa è la storia di un ussaro russo
Ora che la guerra era finita
Che succedeva mai?
Rientrava dalla lande d’arme ansante in cuore e gambe
Aveva servito madre Russia nell’esercito di Pietro il Grande
Avanzando piano nel rigore del primo Gennaio
Giunse un ussaro russo in sella ad un purosangue baio
Lui era l’alto rango del sangue slavo
Negli occhi spuri il lago di sangue dell’assalto di Azov
Aveva corso fuggendo la peste con bestie
In grado di percorrere in due giorni almeno 200 verste
Giunse dalle foreste in un’alba di vetro
Ricordava i vecchi boiari dell’epoca prima di Pietro
I bottoni di rame brillavano sotto i fiocchi e sopra
Una barba ampia che iniziava appena sotto gli occhi
Sotto le notti aveva corso tra i bui
Ora lui riconosceva la terra: lei non riconosceva lui
Le riforme avevano cambiato tutto per sempre
E il sangue nobile per quanto nobile non valeva più
Nonostante lo sguardo costante
Due lacrime calde rigavan le guance
Tu chiedi perché?
Per quanto forte lui non riuscì a non piangere
Il vecchio mondo è morto e il nuovo tarda a nascere
Nonostante il suo corpo composto
Due lacrime calde rigavano il volto
Domandi perché?
Per quanto memore d’usi, abusi e regole
Nel tempo s’era perso il passo fra due epoche
L’ussaro vide le sue terre d’oriente perse per sempre
Dove il vento increspava i campi di segale verde
Dove l’erba perenne sommergeva la palude
Mentre la nebbia spargeva nell’aria odore di fiume
Rivide i ponti di sassi, i tronchi neri dei frassini
Le foglie chiare delle querce nane e i sorbi selvatici
Il sottobosco mosso dove bastava un raggio solo
Per trasformare giallo e rosso in porpora e oro
Si avvicinò al villaggio spronando il sauro appena
Poi rallentò al ritmo di chi falciava l’avena
Aria fiera, il petto gonfio come un vela
Pretendeva il rispetto che era ma nessuno lo riconosceva
La sua steppa in fiore ove regnava come un signore
Ora non era più sua ma terra dell’Imperatore
Che aveva impresso alla sua terra lo stampo di zar stanco
Di guardare a Mosca come seconda Roma o terza Bisanzio
L’ussaro scese dal sauro con fare cortese
Sentì l’odore del lago e accarezzò il baio sul garrese
A lui pareva palese ricevere omaggi dal volgo
Ma solo cani e un bifolco storpio gli giravano intorno
Nessuno vedeva, nessuno voleva
Chi lo temeva come nessuno ora volgeva la schiena
Vide un cosacco suo servo con un collo da cervo
Fare a pezzi il suo stemma e gettarlo per terra in mezzo allo sterco
Vide vicino a un' isba di pino una candela di sego
Illuminava una folla che ascoltava un vecchio cieco
Raccontava la steppa di un tempo, le miserie e le offese
Quando il grano d’un mese rendeva solo poche copeche in monete
«E il padrone d’un tempo che il demonio lo porti!
— Diceva: -quel cane rognoso ozioso nobile succhia soldi
Si pensava un signore, si, amato da tutti
Speriamo sia morto di tisi o per mano dei turchi!»
L’ussaro sentì nel cuore bruciare il dolore
Il suo nome nel fango alla stregua di un invasore
Cosi s’avviò verso il lago senza fretta o timore
Qualcuno prima lo vide mormorare qualcosa sotto le icone
Nonostante lo sguardo costante
Due lacrime calde rigavan le guance
Tu chiedi perché?
Per quanto forte lui non riuscì a non piangere
Il vecchio mondo è morto e il nuovo tarda a nascere
Nonostante il suo corpo composto
Due lacrime calde rigavano il volto
Domandi perché?
Per quanto memore d’usi, abusi e regole
Nel tempo s’era perso il passo fra due epoche

Lyrics translation

This is the story of a Russian Hussar
Now that the war was over
What ever happened?
He came back from the moor of arms in his heart and legs
He had served Mother Russia in the army of Peter The Great
Advancing slowly in the penalty of the first January
Came a Russian Hussar riding a thoroughbred baio
He was the high rank of Slavic blood
In the spurious eyes the lake of blood of the onslaught of Azov
He had run away from the plague with beasts
Able to travel in two days at least 200 versts
He came from the woods in a glass Dawn
He remembered the old boyars of the time before Peter
Copper buttons shone under the bows and above
A broad beard that began just under the eyes
Under the nights he had run through the darkness
Now he knew the earth: she knew not him
The reforms had changed everything forever
And noble blood no matter how noble it was no longer worth
Despite the constant gaze
Two hot tears rigavan her cheeks
You ask why?
As loud as he could not not cry
The old world is dead and the new is late to be born
Despite his composed body
Two warm tears streamed her face
You ask why?
As much as I remember uses, abuses and rules
In time, the passage between two epochs had been lost
The Hussar saw his lands of the East lost forever
Where the wind rippled the fields of green Rye
Where the perennial grass submerged the swamp
As the fog spread in the air smell of river
Revisits the bridges of sassi, the black logs of the ash trees
The light leaves of dwarf Oaks and wild Rowan
The underbrush moved where only one ray was enough
To turn yellow and red into purple and gold
He approached the village spurring the sauro just
Then he slowed to the rhythm of the mowers of oats
Fair air, swollen chest like a sail
He demanded the respect he was but no one recognized him
His steppe in bloom where he reigned as a Lord
Now it was no longer his own but the Land Of The Emperor
Who had imprinted on his land the mold of tired Tsar
To look at Moscow as Second Rome or third Byzantium
The Hussar descended from the sauro with courteous fare
He smelled the lake and stroked the Bay on the Withers
It seemed obvious to him to receive tributes from the volgo
But only dogs and a crippled Rascal were around him
No one saw, no one wanted
Who feared him like no one now turned his back
He saw a Cossack his servant with a deer neck
Tear up his coat of arms and throw him to the ground in the dung
He saw near a pine isba a candle of tallow
Lit up a crowd listening to an old blind man
He recounted the steppe of old, the miseries and offenses
When the one-month-old wheat made only a few copechas in coins
"And the Lord of old let the devil bear him!
- He said: - that Noble lazy stingy dog sucks money
He thought he was a gentleman, yes, loved by all
Let's hope he died of tisi or at the hands of the Turks!»
The Hussar felt in the heart burning pain
His name in the mud like an invader
So he set out to the lake without haste or fear
Someone first saw him murmur something under the icons
Despite the constant gaze
Two hot tears rigavan her cheeks
You ask why?
As loud as he could not not cry
The old world is dead and the new is late to be born
Despite his composed body
Two warm tears streamed her face
You ask why?
As much as I remember uses, abuses and rules
In time, the passage between two epochs had been lost