Буги-Вуги на Потолке [Bogi-Vugi na Potolke] [English translation]

I don’t know how I caught it,

But I skipped school,

I just couldn’t sit through the day.

I never was able to teach anyone anything,

No need to educate me.

Before I grew up,

I solved my questions,

By myself in a single country.

I never interfered with anyone or anything,

Don’t bother me.

When I walked along steep peaks,

I wasn’t higher than myself. 1

When I went down to the valley to be with you,

I wasn’t shallower than myself. 2

I know who I am, and I hear the crying of the clouds,

In the distance I see the fish dancing in the river.

Say, why do you first call the doctors and then the cops?

When I boogie-woogie on the ceiling?3

I don’t like it when order reminds itself of its own advice,

I don’t like it when the steps lag behind,

And I always go there,

Where inscribed : “No Exit”,

No need to go after me.

When I roamed steep mountains,

I was not higher than myself.

When I went down to the valley be with you,

I was not shallower than myself.

I know who I am,

I can hear the clouds cry,

In the distance I can see the fish dancing in the river,

Tell me why you call,

The doctors, the cops,

When I boogie-woogie on the ceiling?

1. Get it? He is on a mountain….2. Get it? He is in a valley….I’ll stop now3. I thought Makarevich saying “Okay” in an exaggerated American-Russian accent was the funniest thing I’ve ever heard, but these two line are golden.