In solidarity with the Ukrainian people: The Last Request of An Old Street Singer

"Last Request of An Old Singer"
Lyrics by Vitaly Korotich
English lyrics by Allen Rabinovich and Andrey Kneller
Music by Sergey Nikitin
Sophie et Adam: www.sophieetadam.com
Sophie Michaux, voice
Adam Simon, guitar and voice
Recorded in Conway Ma on March 7th 2022, in solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
Please listen, share it widely, and heed its cry by donating to the efforts to help Ukraine. You can:
donate to my friend's Michelle Ayzenberg's evacuation effort: / 10111506473751169 .
donate to Razom, a charity helping with the medical needs of Ukrainian army and citizens / razomforukraine .
donate to any of the highly rated charities on the Charity Navigator list: www.charitynav....
call on your representatives in Congress and Senate to take decisive action in defense of Ukraine.
Lyrics:
Please help me get across the town square,
To fields of buckwheat, where the bees hum muffled,
Where silence fills the ears like cotton ruffled,
Oh help me get across the town square!
Please help me get across the town square,
Where all rejoice and fight and disagree,
At times they cannot hear themselves nor me,
Please help me get across the town square!
Oh help me get across the town square,
Where I have sung the songs I knew by heart,
I’ll walk into the quiet and (there) depart,
Please help me get across the town square!
Please help me get across the town square,
Here cries a woman -- she (once was) my fire,
I will not (notice her), passing her by,
Please help me get across the town square…
Oh please, help me across the town square,
Full of regrets and lasting loves remembered,
Where I was great and was reduced to embers,
Please help me get across the town square.
Please help me get across the town square!
Where poplar trees play host to drunken clouds,
Today my son will sing here to the crowds,
Oh help me get across the town square.
Please help…
The square’s flowing fair
Had drawn him in and led him ever forward,
When he fell dead halfway along the courtyard…
There was no field beyond the town square.

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