Vladimir Vysotsky: Songs

	Add your own translation Translators Stanley Altshuller Sergey V. Andreev Rifkat Arslanov William Comer Jack Doughty Serge Elnitsky Adrian J. Erlinger Bill Everett Boris Gendelev Genia Gurarie Kathryn & Bruce Hamilton Max Hrabrov Maya Jouravel Slava Katz Andrey Kneller Arkadiy Landa Alex Lvovsky de Cate and Navrozov Sergei Roy Zhenia Sakirski Ilya Shambat Liza Simonova Hans Sleurink Nellie Tkach Alex Tolkachev Alec Vagapov Eugenia Weinstein Anna Zaigraeva Outside link: Greatest Bard. Listen to Vysotsky's music and sing/read along in transliterated Russian, phonetic transcription and word-by-word English translation. [an error occurred while processing this directive]
It is often said that no one can translate Vysotsky well enough so that he would be understood and loved by non-Russians. But one can certainly try... Here are some of such attempts, some of them excellent: 0 07 (trans. by Elnitsky) A Aborted Flight (trans. by Gendelev) See also: Someone spotted a fruit... (trans. by Kneller) See also: Someone saw the fruit... (trans. by Shambat) See also: Someone spotted a fruit... (trans. by Weinstein) About the devil (trans. by Erlinger) And the candles are melting (trans. by Navrozov) Another's lane (trans. by Lvovsky) Apples of paradise (trans. by Erlinger) See also: Apples from the garden of Eden (trans. by Vagapov) B Ballad about battle (trans. by Lvovsky) See also: A ballad about the struggle (trans. by Tkach) Ballad about love (trans. by Jouravel) See also: Ballad about love (trans. by Shambat) The ballad of the departure for paradise (trans. by Navrozov) Ballad of the free archers (trans. by Weinstein) The ballad of the short neck (trans. by Navrozov) The ballad of the time (trans. by Vagapov) Be thankful (trans. by Elnitsky) Bolshoi Karetnyi (trans. by Elnitsky) See also: Where are they now, your 17 years? (trans. by Sleurink) Both the pets and the wild beasts of prey... (trans. by Vagapov) C Carroll's song (trans. by Doughty) Chances (trans. by Navrozov) Chastushki (4 verse limericks) (trans. by Navrozov) The chess crown contest: The match (trans. by Navrozov) The city romance (trans. by Vagapov) Common graves (trans. by Hamilton) See also: No crosses are put on the brotherly graves... (trans. by Kneller) See also: The common graves (trans. by Vagapov) Comrade scientists (trans. by Navrozov) Condemned to life (trans. by Navrozov) The Cranes (trans. by Shambat) The Cupolas (trans. by Shambat) D Debris remaining from the crown... (trans. by Kneller) Dialogue in front of the TV-set (trans. by Navrozov) The dream (trans. by Doughty) See also: The silly dream (trans. by Vagapov)

E Evening storm (trans. by Navrozov) F Fastidious horses (trans. by Altshuller) See also: Unruly horses (trans. by Hamilton) See also: The fastidious horses (trans. by Jouravel) See also: Fastidious horses (trans. by Kneller) See also: Capricious horses (trans. by Shambat) See also: Fastidious horses (trans. by Tkach) Five hundred (trans. by Tolkachev) The fords are deep. The bridges have burnt down... (trans. by Vagapov) G Go ahead, drink (trans. by Simonova) Grace or a blessing (trans. by Erlinger) See also: The ballad of a bath-house (trans. by Vagapov) H He has not come back from the combat (trans. by Andreev) See also: He didn't return from the battle (trans. by Doughty) See also: He didn't return from the fight (trans. by Lvovsky) See also: He hasn't returned from the fighting (trans. by Vagapov) The honor of the chess crown. Part II: The Game (trans. by Kneller) See also: The chess crown contest: Training (trans. by Navrozov) Horizon (trans. by Sakirski) See also: The horizon (trans. by Tkach) How I detest... (trans. by Hamilton) See also: I don't like (trans. by Tkach) I I am fated to argue to very last day... (trans. by Vagapov) I dash, I push, - and I'm ashamed to get up... (trans. by Tolkachev) I have two selves in me (trans. by Vagapov) I honor Dorian Gray and Faustus... (trans. by Vagapov) I love you now (trans. by Vagapov) I need changes 'cause for years... (trans. by Vagapov) I told myself: must stop to write... (trans. by Kneller) I walked out of a fine deal (trans. by Navrozov) I was fond of nasty tricks and women... (trans. by Vagapov) I'll answer all your questions (trans. by Vagapov) I'm feeling shivery again. My heart... (trans. by Vagapov) I'm in the light... (trans. by Shambat) I'm on a deal, I've got my knife... (trans. by Kneller) See also: I am on the job (trans. by Vagapov) The icy world (trans. by Vagapov) If you are in a strange land at night (trans. by Vagapov) In the beginning there was a Word (trans. by Vagapov) In the far-away galaxy of Tau-Whale (trans. by Tkach) In a game preserve - I forgot which one... (trans. by Tolkachev) The informer (trans. by Vagapov) It's no use to talk to you. I think (trans. by Vagapov) It's the same thing after 10 years (trans. by Tkach)

L Leaving the mountains (trans. by Kneller) See also: Saying good-bye to the mountains (trans. by Vagapov) The letter (trans. by Vagapov) A Letter Before Combat (trans. by Landa) A long drawn out jump (trans. by Navrozov) The lyrical song (trans. by Gurarie) See also: Lyricale (trans. by Hamilton) See also: Here old redwood branches tremble in the high winds... (trans. by Jouravel) See also: The birds are alarmed here, boding no good... (trans. by Vagapov) M Magadan (trans. by Elnitsky) Make a bridge on the occasion... (trans. by Vagapov) Masks (trans. by Hamilton) See also: The masks (trans. by Vagapov) Meet the bride (trans. by Navrozov) A meeting with the Muse (trans. by Kneller) The monument (trans. by Navrozov) Morning workout (trans. by Kneller) See also: Take a deep breath, then some more... (trans. by Tolkachev) Moscow to Odessa (trans. by Elnitsky) Mountain echo (trans. by Shambat) See also: Execution of mountain echo (trans. by Vagapov) Mountain-climbing girl (trans. by Elnitsky) My boat propeller smashed belly of dolphin... (trans. by Arslanov) My friends light up the candles for me still... (trans. by Kneller) See also: In my soul (trans. by Vagapov) My gypsy song (trans. by Arslanov) See also: My gypsy song (trans. by Doughty) See also: My gypsy song (trans. by Roy) See also: My gypsy song (trans. by Tkach) See also: My gypsy song (trans. by Tolkachev) My Hamlet (trans. by Kneller) My heart aches, so does my head, I think... (trans. by Vagapov) My neighbour (trans. by Hamilton) My own island (trans. by Vagapov) My sorrow won't fade (trans. by Vagapov) N The nature reserve (trans. by Kneller) O Of the sea (trans. by Navrozov) The one who didn't shoot (trans. by Vagapov) The one who's been with her before (trans. by Altshuller) See also: He who's been with her before (trans. by Kneller) See also: The guy that used to be her guy (trans. by Sleurink) Open doors of hospitals, police stations... (trans. by Tkach) Our sons must leave for the war (trans. by Jouravel) P Pilot's song (trans. by Lvovsky) The pretty ones are dearly loved and softly... (trans. by Kneller)

R Red and blue and... (trans. by Elnitsky) A romance that never happened (trans. by Erlinger) S Save our souls (trans. by Tkach) The sentimental boxer's song (trans. by Elnitsky) The ships (trans. by Vagapov) Skull and crossbones (trans. by Navrozov) So there, the tremor left my hands... (trans. by Kneller) See also: Well, now, my hands don't shake at all... (trans. by Vagapov) A soldier's song (trans. by Navrozov) Song about carpenter Joseph, the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit, and the Immaculate conception (trans. by Erlinger) Song about the Earth (trans. by Lvovsky) See also: Song about earth (trans. by Weinstein) Song about a friend (trans. by Comer) See also: Song about a friend (trans. by Katz) See also: A song about a friend (trans. by Kneller) See also: Song about a friend (trans. by Tkach) A song about nothing, or What happened in Africa (trans. by Tkach) See also: In the white hot Africa... (trans. by Tolkachev) Song of an Antisemite (trans. by Gendelev) The song of clairvoyant Cassandra (trans. by Vagapov) The song of the criminal code (trans. by Vagapov) The song of the new times (trans. by Vagapov) Song of reincarnation (trans. by Doughty) See also: Good religion created by the Hindus (trans. by Lvovsky) See also: The reincarnation song (trans. by Vagapov) The song of the white elephant (trans. by Vagapov) The spring is just beginning... (trans. by Kneller) The stars (trans. by Vagapov) The story of the Truth and the Lie (trans. by Vagapov) Suddenly our trodden ways must part... (trans. by Vagapov) T The tale of the wild mammal (trans. by Vagapov) See also: The tale of the wild boar (trans. by Zaigraeva) The tavern (trans. by Kneller) There is the entrance but, you know... (trans. by Vagapov) These aren't the plains... (trans. by Hrabrov) Tightrope Walker (trans. by Gendelev) See also: Tightrope walker (trans. by Lvovsky) See also: The tightrope-walker (trans. by Tkach) See also: The tightrope walker (trans. by Weinstein) Tin soldiers (trans. by Tkach) To sink to the bottom (trans. by Elnitsky) Trip into the past (trans. by Everett) Two scruffy ships (trans. by Navrozov) U Up to the mountain height (trans. by Vagapov) V Victim of television (trans. by Erlinger)

W We were to meet. I waited for the day... (trans. by Vagapov) The weightlifter (trans. by Elnitsky) What the hell, you viper... (trans. by Vagapov) When by the rhymes and poems I get bored... (trans. by Vagapov) Where are you, wolves? (trans. by Everett) See also: Where are you, wolves? (trans. by Weinstein) White silence (trans. by Lvovsky) White waltz (trans. by Shambat) Who's racing after what? (trans. by Navrozov) Wolf hunt (trans. by Hamilton) See also: A hunt on wolves (trans. by Tkach) Y You could be driving or riding a taxi... (trans. by Tolkachev)