Кот Бегемот [Kot Begemot] [English translation]

If we could choose our friends

From stories, tales or novels

People would choose magicans and fairies

Or people without any flaws

But I see in my dreams day and night

A strange person with a long moustache and a fluffy tail

Sometimes he drinks stinking kerosene,

Sometimes suddenly he becomes nicer than a movie star

Refrain:

Cat Behemoth is a funny guy and a spendthrift

I need a friend like him

Cat Behemoth calls me to fool around and to have fun with him

Cat Behemoth has no worries

(What a devlish pussy cat you are!)

A little woman named Larisa has tired from worries long ago

I don't care about the count of Monte Cristo,

Sherlock Holmes or Fantomas

I don't need Hamlet and Othello

Behemoth has hundreds of devlish pranks

Go ahead and choose any one of them!

If I ask him he will take me to Paris and to the English Queen's ball

Only Behemoth can save me from my problems

As he purrs his heavenly tunes.

Refrain:

Cat Behemoth is a funny guy and a spendthrift

I need a friend like him

Cat Behemoth calls me to fool around and to have fun with him

Cat Behemoth has no worries

(What a devlish pussy cat you are!)

A little woman named Larisa has tired from worries long ago

• Artist:Larisa Dolina