Кода [Koda] [English translation]

Misty Albion plunged

Into deep dark

Dead peace is everywhere

The moon over the river.

But at midnight again

Suddenly began to sound

Sonata of longing

So continuously!

So when the village is sleeping deep

The violin from the cemetery sounding.

Stone crypt is unveiled

Watchman is old, deaf and blind

And everyone thinks he

Loves violin so much.

Before the dawn comes

The gaffer amuses himself.

Violinist will finish to fiddle

Only in the morning

And when the night will come

He will start again.

The wind will blow

This melody will

Over the sinful earth

Suddenly swept through.

So when the village is sleeping deep

The violin from the cemetery sounding.

Stone Crypt is unveiled

Watchman old, deaf and blind

And everyone thinks he

Loves violin so much.

And the watchman himself didn’t know

Who is the neighbor next to him.

There was one musician

Who played the violin.

There was a rare talent in him,

What the people admired.

And he dreamed always

To die only at stage.

When he saw the Death

Couldn’t finish the Coda.

Someone carved this Coda on his tombstone

And from year to year, the maestro played those tunes.