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1962 song with lyrics by Dmytro Lutsenko performed by Yuri Aleksandrovich Gulyayev
Commemorative coin with a face of Dmytro Lutsenko and name of his poem
Memorial plaque of Ihor Shamo in Kyiv with his notes to the song
Yak tebe ne liubyty, Kyieve mii! (Ukrainian: Як тебе не любити, Києве мій! English: How can I not love you, Kyiv of mine?) is a lyrical song of Kyiv composer Ihor Shamo and lyrics by poet Dmytro Lutsenko [uk]. At first the song was performed in 1962 in duet by Yuriy Gulyayev and Kostiantyn Ohnievyi [uk] who at that time performed at Kyiv Opera Theatre.
After over half a century later, in 2014 the song became official anthem of Kyiv city.[1]
Rough translation[edit]
- Green sea is playing
- Quiet day is fading away
- So dear have become for me
- the sloping banks of Dnipro
- Where branches are swaying
- of amorous dreams...
- How can one not love you,
- Kyiv, my dear!
- Into eyes Cannas are gazing
- My heart I will pour into them
- Let them tell to my beloved one
- How I faithfully love
- I will dream and live now
- On wings of my hopes...
- How can one not love you,
- Kyiv, my dear!
- Falling my weary city
- in peaceful and gentle sleep
- There lights as a necklace
- Have bloomed over Dnieper
- Velvet of late afternoons
- Is as euphoria surf
- How can one not love you,
- Kyiv, my dear!
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- Грає море зелене,
- Тихий день догора.
- Дорогими для мене
- Стали схили Дніпра,
- Де колишуться віти
- Закоханих мрій...
- Як тебе не любити,
- Києве мій!
- В очі дивляться канни,
- Серце в них переллю.
- Хай розкажуть коханій,
- Як я вірно люблю.
- Буду мріяти й жити
- На крилах надій...
- Як тебе не любити,
- Києве мій!
- Спить натомлене місто
- Мирним, лагідним сном.
- Ген вогні, як намисто,
- Розцвіли над Дніпром.
- Вечорів оксамити,
- Мов щастя прибій...
- Як тебе не любити,
- Києве мій!
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