Текст песни Александр Маточкин - Не два сокола соколичка вылетали

DO NOT TWO FALCONS SOKOLICHKA FLY

Not two falcons flew out of the oak forest
not two young men left the Tsar of the city
not two small rake from the Black Sea came up

musorushki are sitting on the racks; evil Turks are brave
with their pretty little oars, the ship is buried in the sea
with the little golden sticks of their ship at sea correct

on the boat is a black Turkish flag
tanned pigtails banners of the Black Sea cover
how under the banner stand on two stulichki oak
how the Persian Shah sits with the Turkish king

how full you are the turkish king with the white king to fight
time for you to make peace with the Turkish king and the white king
as I pass mother strength Roseyushka then I will make peace with the white king

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Tersky song of the XVII century. Options from other places do not know. The image of wonderfully decorated ships sailing in the sea is widespread among the Cossacks; it is found in historical songs and epics. Closest to our songs, this image was developed in the Listopadov version, applied to Don Cossacks. Apparently, the Terek Cossacks also had options with a similar development. Subsequently, they mixed with songs about the Turks, but traces of the connection remained. Here is the end of the song according to the version from the Terek collection: "Our father, oh archer ataman, sits at the stern, he says the word as if trumpeting."

As in many Cossack historical songs, the main content of our text is concentrated in the final lines - a conversation between the Turkish king and the Persian Shah. Most of the song is descriptive.

The content of the song cannot be attributed to any particular event or specific time; impressions from different events and eras intertwine in it, right up to the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th centuries. The shortened version gives an example of the final form into which a historical song of this kind is poured out among the Cossacks: only the descriptive part is preserved, which gives the features of completeness.

The shortened version is a historical song that has lost its temporal confinement and the plot itself. The song gives an example quite widespread in modern Greben folklore of folding a large lyrical-epic song to the limits of conception and giving it an artificial completeness.

The lyrics and explanations are taken here:
Putilov B.N. Historical songs on the Terek. Grozny, 1948.
S. 34-35, 110-111.
Putilov B.N. Songs of Grebensky Cossacks. Grozny, 1946.
S. 166-167, 305.