kuda tsar' idet peshkom

[Ajda Kljun]

Also in Slovene: "iti tja, kamor gre še cesar peš". Regards,

Ajda.

2008/4/3, Robert A. Rothstein <rar at slavic.umass.edu>:
>
> The Tom Lehrer version - in his song "Lobachevsky" - was
>
>   [...]
>   I am never forget the day my first book is published.
>   Every chapter I stole from somewhere else.
>   Index I copy from old Vladivostok telephone directory.
>   This book was sensational!
>   Pravda - well, Pravda - Pravda said: Ia idu kuda sam tsar' idet peshkom.
>   It stinks.
>   [...]
>
> The entire text is published in his collection "Too Many Songs by Tom
> Lehrer." In a footnote he indicates that for the quote from "Pravda" (and
> another quote from "Izvestiia") "one should insert some phrase in Russian
> (if the audience does not speak Russian) or some Russian double-talk (if it
> does). The author's own choices varied from the merely inappropriate to the
> distinctly obscene." In the printed text he does not provide any suggestions
> for the two supposed quotations. The version that I quoted above is what I
> remember from his first record, which came out sometime in the 1950s, a
> version he presumably learned from some Russian emigre. I haven't listened
> to the record recently, but I'm fairly certain that he used "idet" rather
> than "khodit " since I remember the iambic rhythm.
>
> Bob Rothstein
>
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