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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 in the comments below or email me at lisa@mamalisa.com. Thanks!

Mama Lisa

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

1. Tanya Says:
   March 18th, 2009 at 3:24 am

   Чижик-пыжик, где ты был?

   На Фонтанке водку пил.

   Выпил рюмку, выпил две

   — Зашумело в голове.

   Чижик-пыжик после пьянки

   Выпил воду из Фонтанки,

   Откачали эту птицу

   Только в Боткинской больнице.
   This is one of the variant of the song in Russian. It’s an urban folk song,which “was made” in St. Petersburg. There is a monument to “Chizik-pyzik” on Fontanka river. Chizik – a bird, known in English as “siskin” and “pyzik” is an ironical ending which actually means nothing, just to make fun. The story of the song is very interesting

   Chizik-pyzik, where have you been?
   I drank vodka at Fontanka
   I drank a glass and one more
   Then I felt giddy
   After drunken feast Chizik-pyzik
   Have drunk water out of Fontanka
   And he was brought to life
   Only at Botkinskaya Hospital

2. Lisa Says:
   May 10th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

   Maria wrote, “‘Chizhik’ in Russian is a sparrow, but I thought it was nicer to keep the Russian…”

3. Tatyana Says:
   September 6th, 2009 at 6:20 am

   А мне вот что вспомнилось:
   Тише-тише
   Кот на крыше
   А котята еще выше

4. Lisa Says:
   September 6th, 2009 at 8:56 am

   Tatyana… does that translate as, “And that’s what I remembered: Hush-hush of a cat on the roof and kittens higher above.”

   I wonder where this comes from?

5. Schollaert Says:
   January 6th, 2010 at 4:43 am

   It is not a sparrow, but a siskin.

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