Songs
The King’s Campaign (The Grand Old Duke of York)
by Dmitri Shostakovich From Six Romances on Verses by British Poets (1942) Op. 62
Text & Translation
The King’s Campaign (The Grand Old Duke of York)
Russian source:
Traditional trans. Samuil Marshak
Polki svoikh Strelkov.
Po sklonu vniz korol soshyol,
No tolko bez polkov.
The King’s Campaign (The Grand Old Duke of York)
English translation ©
Anon.
With twenty thousand men,
The King of France came down the hill,
And never went up again.
The King’s Campaign (The Grand Old Duke of York)
Russian source:
Traditional trans. Samuil Marshak
The King’s Campaign (The Grand Old Duke of York)
English source:
Anon.
Po sklonu vverkh korol povyol
The King of France went up the hill,
Polki svoikh Strelkov.
With twenty thousand men,
Po sklonu vniz korol soshyol,
The King of France came down the hill,
No tolko bez polkov.
And never went up again.
Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer and pianist. He achieved fame in the Soviet Union, although later developed a more complex and difficult relationship with the government. As a composer, he combined a variety of different musical…
