This edition presents readers with such a peculiar phenomenon of poetry as the domestic author's song of the 1950-1980s. Along with the works of the classics of this genre B. Okudzhava, V. Vysotsky, A. Galich, the book includes songs of bards of different generations. To help students and teachers, literary articles, press materials, methodological developments, essays, etc. are published for high school students, applicants and teachers.