Watching the sky and thinking a thought
Song by Anatoliy Solovianenko, Ivan Kozlovsky, Borys Hmyria, Muslim Magomayev and other / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I am watching the sky and thinking a thought (Ukrainian: Дивлюсь я на небо та й думку гадаю) is a song with lyrics written by Ukrainian romantic poet Mykhailo Petrenko in 1841.[1] It was set to music by Lyudmila Alexandrova.[2] Vladislav Zaremba arranged this song for voice and piano. This song became one of the first two songs sung in space: this happened on August 12, 1962, on board the spacecraft "Vostok 3 and 4" when the first Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut Pavlo Popovych from Ukraine, who had previously been fond of opera singing, performed it at the special request of Serhiy Korolyov, a prominent Soviet rocket engineer and designer of spacecraft from Ukraine, which sent the first satellite and the first people into space.[3][4][5][6] 55 years after the first performance of Ukrainian song in space, on August 12, 2017, the introduction of this day of Ukrainian Song Day was initiated.[7]
Version 1841[8] | Version 1848[9] | Translation by Liuba Gavur[10] |
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В минуту жизни трудную Тѣснится въ сердцѣ грусть… Лермонтовъ.
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Дивлюсь я на небо, та й думку гадаю: |
I am watching the sky and thinking a thought: |
"I am Watching the sky and thinking a thought" | |
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Song by Anatoliy Solovianenko, Ivan Kozlovsky, Borys Hmyria, Muslim Magomayev and other | |
Recorded | 1903 |
Songwriter(s) | Mykhailo Petrenko |