Текст песни Александр Матюхин - Н. Рубцов. Полночное пенье

When the window
darkened,
He quietly asked matches
And lit the lamp clumsily,
Berating his wife out of habit.
And again conjured
over the glass,
Over his vodka, looking ...
And long afterwards did not cease
His lonely singing.
Behind the wall were busy with the baby,
And weeping heard and swearing,
But his thoughts were being carried out
From this mournful cool ...
And for a long time without any case,
As if listening to the singing,
Wife sat patiently
His silent shadow.
And only when outside the fence
Only the watchman flashlight shines
She said: - Do not!
Do not! After all, hear the neighbors! -
He sternly
rose,
like thunder.
- I drink - I say - so what? -
The wife depart from it,
Exclaimed: - O Lord my God! .. -
Meanwhile, as she undressed
And he undressed before going to bed,
It was filled with tears,
And he nightingale
poured ...