Mark bernes zhuravli english lyrics

Subject: Lyr Add: Zhuravli (The Cranes)
From:GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 08 Dec 07 - 07:59 PM

This song is simply haunting. The words come from a poem by the Avar (a people inhabiting Chechnya and Daghestan) poet Rasul Gamzatov, which was inspired by Sadako Sasaki, the little girl from Hiroshima, and her origami cranes.

A decade or so later, Mark Bernes read a tranlsation and was struck by the words.

Mark bernes zhuravli english lyrics translation

Grebnyov retranslated the words to make them singable and Mark convinced Yan Frenkel to set it to music. Mark Bernes knew this would be his last song. He was dying of cancer. The song was first publicly performed for Victory Day in May of 69, which left everyone in a deep silence until one of the generals hugged Bernes and said that this song gave them back, as soldiers, the right to cry, and burst into tears.

Mark bernes zhuravli english lyrics pdf

In June he recorded it, and within a month, passed away. One of the last things he did was to ring Gamzatov and sing it for him.

http://uranium.cataclasm.org/~eugene/bernes