Катерина [Katerina] [English translation]

Katherine, oh, Kathie, Katherinie!

I’m delighted by your own ways,

Like the Christmas tree you’re so skinny

But dressed up you’ll have another weight.

You will have all bloody fancy dresses,

Swear to you by hell and holly ghost,

Like the bitch I stabbed after the passes.

Take the things just as the way they go

Don’t get frightened, Kathie, Katherinie, -

We shall have the glamour in our ditch

We’ll get everything the loot is bringing

And not each year’s marked with killing bitch.

Katherinie, throw away the doubts

Don’t’ you trust the words I just have said

Fetch the sledge, we gonna have a bout!

And the funeral is yet far-fetched

• Artist:Vladimir Vysotsky