Текст песни Даниил Хармс - Рыцарь

Alexei Alexeyev was a true knight . For example, once, when he saw the tram , a lady stumbled on the curb and dropped the bag of glass cover for desk lamp , which immediately and crashed , Alexei , wanting to help this lady decided to sacrifice himself and jumped out of the tram at full course , fell and cutting himself on a rock face at all . On another occasion , seeing a lady climbing over the fence, skirt caught on a nail and got stuck so that , sitting astride the fence , could not move either back or forward, Alexei began to worry so much that emotion choked his tongue two anterior tooth. In short, Alexei was a real knight, and not only with respect to the ladies . With unprecedented ease Alexei could sacrifice their lives for the Faith , Tsar and Fatherland , and proved that in the 14th year , at the beginning of the German war , shouting " For the Motherland ! " thrown into the street from a third floor window . Miraculously Alexei survived, escaped with only bruises frivolous , and soon, like so unusually - zealous patriot , was sent to the front.

At the front of Alexei different unusually lofty feelings and whenever uttered the word " banner ", " fanfare " or even just " epaulets " , his face ran his tears .

In the 16th year, Alexei was wounded in the loins and removed from the front.

As a disabled person I category Alexei not served, and using free time expounding on paper their patriotic feelings.

Once, talking with Konstantin Lebedev Alexei said his favorite phrase : "I suffered for their country and broke their loins , but the existing powers of persuasion of his back unconscious ."

- And the fool ! - Konstantin Lebedev told him . - The highest home service will only LIBERAL .

Somehow these words sank deep into the soul of Alexei , and now in its 17th year, he calls himself a "liberal , buttocks suffered for their fatherland ."

Alexei revolution took with enthusiasm, despite the fact that he was denied a pension. Some time Konstantin Lebedev supplied him with cane sugar , chocolate, canned bacon and millet grains . But when Konstantin Lebedev suddenly knows where missing, Alexei Alexeyevich had to go out and beg . First Alexei stretched out his hand and said, " Give , for Christ's sake , buttocks suffered for their homeland ." But it had no success . Then Alexei replaced the word " homeland " the word " revolution." But it had no success . Then Alexei revolutionary song composed and , seeing the street person, capable , according to Alexei , give alms , do step forward and proudly , with dignity , his head thrown back , began to sing :

To the barricades

we all go !

for freedom

we all die and maim !

And famously , Polish pritopnuv heel Alexei stretched hat and said, " Give alms, for Christ's sake ." It helped , and Alexei rarely went without food .

All went well , but in the 22- year Alexei acquainted with a certain Ivan Ivanovich Puzyreva who traded on Haymarket sunflower oil. Puzyrev invited Alexei in the cafe , bought him a real coffee himself , munching pastries , outlined a complex undertaking , from which Alexei only realized that he had to do something for which he will receive from Puzyreva valuable food . Alexei agreed and bubbles immediately , in the form of encouragement, gave him under the table two tsibika tea and a pack of cigarettes, " Raja " .

From this day forward Alexei every morning to come to the market Puzyreva and received from him some papers with signatures of curves and countless seals , take sleigh , if it was winter, or if it occurred in the summer - a wheelbarrow and went , as directed by the Puzyreva , by different institutions , where presenting a paper on