Текст песни Вертинский Александр - Доченьки мои

I got angels
Brought up in broad daylight!
Everything I once laughed at
Everything now delights me!
I lived noisily and merrily - I confess
But the wife got everything in her hands.
Completely ignoring me
She gave birth to two daughters.

I was against it. The diapers will start ...
Why complicate your life?
But they got into my heart as a girl
Like kittens in someone else's bed!
And now, with a new meaning and purpose
I, like a bird, view my nest
And sometimes over their cradle
I sing to myself in surprise:

"Daughters, daughters, my daughters!
Where are you, my nights, where are you, nightingales? "
Daughters will grow up, my daughters ...
They will have nights, there will be nightingales!

A lot of Russian sun and light
Will be in the life of my daughters.
And the most important thing is
That the Motherland will be with them!
There will be a house. There will be many toys
We will hang a star on the tree ..
I am some kind old ladies
I will run it especially for them!

So that the Russians sang songs to them,
To weave fairy tales at night
To quietly rustle the years
So that they can't forget their childhood!
True, I will grow old a little
But in soul I will be young as they are!
And I will ask a good God,
To prolong my sinful days!

Daughters will grow up, my daughters ...
They will have nights, there will be nightingales!
And my very daughters will close -
The same nightingales will sing for me in the cemetery.

1945