Черные бушлаты [Chernye bushlaty] [English translation]

We've left falls and sunsets behind our backs

If only we had a slightest let not discernible take-off!

I wish I could believe that our black marines jackets

Will give us chance to see the sunrise today.

Today we've been told in public "Die a heroic death!"

We'll try to - no problem! We'll see which way it'll turn out

I just thought smoking somebody else's crude cigarettes

Everyone will try out their luck - I mean to see the sunrise.

A special coy - special honour for a sapper

Don't jump on my back out of branches with a sheath knife

Save yourself effort - be it with a сut up throat but I'm

Going to see the sunrise before my end.

We raided the rear areas keeping off stabbing them in sleep

When suddenly I noticed after they had cut out an opening

I noticed a young green but keen-sensed sunflower

Turn its head up to the sunrise

Behind our backs at six thirty, I know, there had been left

Not only falls, sunsets but a take-off and sunrise as well

On my last legs, I'm stripping two bare wires

I've not seen the sunrise but I felt it coming

The thinned coy are moving back towards us again

What happened-that happened, what only matters is a blown-up fort

I'd like to believe that our rough job

Gives you chance to see the sunrise tax free.

• Artist:Vladimir Vysotsky