Серебряные струны [Serebryanye struny] [English translation]

My guitar is all I have – step aside, enclosures!

Lady Luck was mean to me, I have lost my freedom!

You could slash my throat at once, slash my veins wide open,

Just restrain from breaking my strings of sterling silver!

I will burrow down and parish in an instance.

Who is there to stand up for my youthful spirit?

They had pierced my heart, they tear my soul to pieces.

Just restrain from breaking my strings of sterling silver!

My guitar they took away. Same goes with my freedom.

I was fighting them and cried: Bastards! Filthy stinkers!

You could stomp me deep in dirt, throw me in the water,

Just restrain from breaking my strings of sterling silver!

What is going, brothers? It is hard believing

That I won’t see sunny days, nor the moonless evenings.

They have ruined my very soul, took away my freedom.

Well, and now they did break my strings of sterling silver!

• Artist:Vladimir Vysotsky