SONG OF THIEVES (Russia)
1. "We are forced to pull our left ear with our right hand, and our right ear with our left hand. We work as, in ancient times, Comrade Aesop worked. It is a stunt. But what else can we do?" blatnaya pesnya (underworld song) bardovskaya pesnya (bard song) avtorskaya pesnaya (author's song) (guitar poetry) (songs to seven strings) ( magnitizdat ) "It is possible to come across recordings made domestically on deficient equipment. There is usually considerable surface noise and distortion of sound; (Repeated copying on different machines causes quite wide variations in tape speed, rendering a voice unrecognisable, converting a baritone into gabbling contralto). There is a range of assorted clunks and pops as the mike is shifted or bumped. And persistent background noise, like vehicles passing in the street outside, or t