Multilingual Fairy Tale Recordings

Librivox just released another bunch of recordings of fairy tales in various languages, including Hungarian, Russian, German, English, Italian and Portuguese (with links to the text of each tale). This is the 3rd collection they’ve posted. Fairy Tale Collection #1 also includes recordings in Latvian, Danish, Romanian, Yiddish and French. You can also... Read more »

Can Anyone Help with the Russian Text of “Bayou-bayoushkji-bayou”?

Caroline sent a lovely Russian lullaby with a story about her childhood: I like your site Russian songs for children. I don’t have a Cyrillic keyboard so I’ll do my best to transliterate. Bayou-bayoushkji-bayou, Seedjit kotjik na kriyou, On nje bedjin nje bahat, Oo njevo yestj m’noho rebjat Vcje pah lallichkum seedjatj Kashou smasljetsum yedjatj. Bayou-bayoushkji-bayou. English Translation: Hush-a-bye, Hush-a-bye, Sits a kitty... Read more »

Bilingual Russian English Tales Online

Helen Korablev sent me links to some bilingual Russian English tales online. They were originally written in Russian, but they have English translations next to them. Two were written by the famous Russian author, Pushkin. Helen wrote: Lisa, hi! I’m sending you links to some lovely Russian tales. I hope it will be useful... Read more »

Can Anyone Help with a Russian Kids Song about a Bear (Mischa)?

Gilbert wrote: Hi, I would be grateful if someone could help. I am trying to find the Russian lyrics for a children?s song about a bear (Mischa) who goes into the woods and gets a cone dropped on his head… does anyone know the words in Russian? Thanks G If anyone can help Gilbert with the original Russian lyrics... Read more »

Can Anyone Help with a Russian Childrens Music CD?

Chris wrote: Hi my name is D. I’m on a mission to find Russian children’s songs. I found your page on the web and liked what I saw. I’m looking to make a CD of Russian children’s songs for personal use. I’ll explain why. My mom is a foster mom for medically fragile kids (wheelchair and medical... Read more »

Can Someone Help with the Lyrics to a Russian Song “Chisi Chisi”?

Mikel is looking for the lyrics of a Russian song. This song is in the family but they don’t know what the lyrics mean. What they sing sounds like “chisi-chisi ietil uil napanta le vozkutpil”. If anyone could provide the proper spelling in Russian and/or a translation, that would be great. Feel free to write... Read more »

Mama Lisa Now Has a Facebook Group

We’d love it if you’d join the Mama Lisa Facebook Group. You can post anything you’d like about your culture. You can post your own musical recordings or YouTube videos… Links to culture and musical sites… Photos of your country… Questions about songs or cultural issues… Anything related to World Culture and... Read more »

Can Someone Help with a Kids Song that’s either Belarussian, Russian or Yiddish?

Martin wrote: Hello from a sunny but quite COLD New York City! I am wondering if anyone knows the answer to this. Not being too knowledgeable about the Belarusian language, I’m assuming that this song my maternal grandmother used to sing to me when I was in my single digits was in Russian or... Read more »

Recording of Russian Rhyme

We just added a recording of the Russian finger play Magpie-Magpie – Сорока-Сорока to Mama Lisa’s World’s Russian Song Pages. Click the link for the lyrics, translations and mp3 recording. Mama Lisa Read more »

Can Someone Help with a Ukrainian Rhyme That Sounds Like, “Pitchoo Pitchoo Bopkoo”?

Suzy wrote… I wonder if anyone can help me find the meaning to this silly rhyme. I was a little kid when my grandmother used to do this thing with my head in her hands and it phonetically sounded like this (I don’t speak or understand Ukrainian) : Pitchoo Pitchoo bopkoo Sedjoonella bobkoo shi shoolapitch, shi shoolapitch, shi... Read more »