Текст песни Константин Симонов - Сын артиллериста

Was at Major Deyev
Comrade - Major Petrov,
We were friends with the civil
Since the twenties.
They cut white together
Checkers on a gallop,
Together then served
In the artillery regiment.

And Major Petrov
There was Lenka, beloved son,
Without a mother, at the barracks,
The boy grew up alone.
And if Petrov is away, -
It happened instead of father
His friend remained
For this tomboy.

Call Deev Lenka:
- Well, let's go for a walk:
To the son of an artilleryman
It's time to get used to the horse! -
With Lenka alone will go
To the lynx, and then to the quarry.
It happened, Lenka rescues,
The barrier cannot take
Fall down and whimper.
- I see, still a little! -

Deev will lift him,
Like a second father.
Put it back on the horse:
- Learn, brother, take barriers!
Hold on my boy: in the world
Do not die twice.
Nothing in our life can
Kick out of the saddle! -
Such a saying
The major had.

Another two or three years passed,
And carried away
Deeva and Petrova
Military craft.
Deyev went to the North
And even forgot the address.
Seeing would be great!
And he did not like letters.
But because it must be
That he himself did not expect children,
About Lenka with some sadness
Often he recalled.

Ten years have passed.
Silence ended
Thunder rumbled
War over the homeland.
Deev fought in the North;
In the polar wilderness of his
Sometimes on newspapers
I was looking for the names of friends.
Once I found Petrov:
"So alive and well!"
He was praised in the newspaper,
In the South, Petrov fought.
Then, coming from the South,
Someone told him
What Petrov, Nikolai Egoritch,
Heroically died in the Crimea.
Deev took out a newspaper
He asked: “What date?” -
And with sadness I realized that the mail
She went here too long ...

And soon in one of the cloudy
Northern evenings
Appointed to Deev in the regiment
There was a lieutenant Petrov.
Deev sat over the map
With two sweet candles.
A tall military man entered
Oblique fathom in the shoulders.
In the first two minutes
The major did not recognize him.
Only the lieutenant’s bass
He reminded of something.
- Well, turn to the light, -
And brought a candle to him.
All the same children's lips
The same snub nose.
And what a mustache - so it’s
Shave! - and the whole conversation.
“Lenka?” “Exactly, Lenka,
He is the most, Comrade Major!

- So he graduated from high school,
We will serve together.
Sorry to such happiness
Father did not have to live .—
Lenka flashed in her eyes
Unsolicited tear.
He gritted his teeth in silence
Oter sleeve eyes.
And again the major had to
Like in childhood, tell him:
- Hold on, my boy: in the world
Do not die twice.
Nothing in our life can
Kick out of the saddle! -
Such a saying
The major had.

And in two weeks
There was a hard fight in the rocks
To help everyone out, I must
Someone risking themselves.
Major called Lenka to himself,
He looked at him point blank.
- According to your order
Appeared, Comrade Major.
- Well, well, that appeared.
Leave the documents to me.
You go alone without a radio operator
Walkie-talkie on the back.
And across the front, over the rocks,
At night in the German rear
You walk along such a path
Where no one went.
You will be from there on the radio
Fire batteries.
Is it clear? ”“ That's right, clear.
- Well, go quickly.
No, wait a bit .—
The major stood up for a second,
Like in childhood, with two hands
He pressed Lenka to himself: -
You go to such a thing
Which is hard to come back.
As a commander, I am you
I’m not happy to send there.
But as a father ... Answer me:
I’m not your father?
“Father,” Lenka told him.
And hugged him in response.

- So, as a father, since it turned out
To fight for life and death,
My father's duty and right
Risk your son
Before others I have to
Son forward to send.
Hold on my boy: in the world
Do not die twice.
Nothing in our life can
Kick out of the saddle! -
Such a saying
The major had.
“Got me?” “Got it.
Let me go? - Go! -
Major stayed in the dugout
Shells burst in front.
Somewhere thundering and ear.
The major followed the clock.