Гробовщик [Grobovshchik] [English translation]

We were taking leave on a ferry

And coachman wheezed to me:

"An old man lives in an old house near the cemetery-

he is a coffin maker

A year ago an evil spirit made mess of his mind

And his thinking is all in darkness.

He began to attack strangers

and frighten their kids

and laugh at their faith

and despise a hman race.

If you meet him in the night,

Oh God, you will be in hard situation".

And it is so deep silence in the village

as if all the people are dead.

and a strange prayer is heard from the cemetery

Of the home an old man lives in.

What he is singing about?

whom he speaks to?

By chance I found

a cross and a stake on the ground

what a terrible mystery

is hidden in this ominous place?

People lay in coffins as if they were in coma -

all the same in every house.

And it is so deep silence in the village

as if all the people are dead.

and a strange prayer is heard from the cemetery

Of the home an old man lives in.

What he is singing about?

whom he speaks to?

Twilight was getting deeper, and in some moment

My blood turned cold

An old man hovered in the air above the cemetery

and i heard the rustles

He said something abruptly in Latin.

The coffins opened in the half-light

he pointed at me with his hand

and shadows moved to me.