Она не вышла замуж [Ona ne vyshla zamuzh] [English translation]

She didn't get married to the limping yehudi,

She didn't get married to the grizzled qatari,

She wasn't attracted by Chicago, or Beirut, or Hanoi.

Returning back home every evening that was all she enjoyed.

(She lived not far from Sumskoy)

Her friend would utter: "How could you be so dim-witted?!

You will see their culture, plus their lives are so vivid;

There are shows of Michael Jackson and Madonna,

and that actor - Van Damme.

If I had your looks, I would long ago be gone!"

But she wouldn't take part in the provocative disputes,

She had enough of these pseudo-immigrational minutes.

She would silently finish her supper, she would go to bed,

"Tomorrow I'm getting up so early", that's what she usually said.

And she had that boy, a guitarist from a rock club,

He had a reputation of a total fuck-up!

He would dance boogie-woogie, sing blues and play rock 'n' roll.

He was smoking hash weed, drinking wine and would take Dimedrol1.

She did love him, and she dreamed of becoming his shadow,

But all that he wanted was to get in her bedroom.

She patiently waited for him to come from his tour.

He would arrive, get drunk and would yell that sovók2 is so boor.

He called her "baby" and she called him "darling",

She never run out of space in her tiny apartment

At times when he visited her at night (about three times a month).

She wanted to cry out: "Take me, take me now, my love!"

And he screwed her in silence, then he would doze off,

He would leave on a train; she would go to her work.

TVs and motels: he would drink wine with a drummer, his friend.

And occasional someone would show to give him head.

And it happened that she was one month pregnant,

But the rock 'n' roll life doesn't mean a life stagnant;

Plus, he was invited to Copenhagen to play on a rock tour.

So everyone chatted: "He finally got what he wanted for sure!”

Predictably, he fell for the foreign life spell.

Well, of course, there is heaven; of course, here is hell.

How is she? What of her? She gave birth and she lives with her kid.

Rumor has it that musicians are the most cynical breed.

You ask me: What's the end of that story? How would I know?

I've made it all up during a sleepless night after some show.

This blue sounding boogie, the A minor chord.

Well, of course, there is heaven and here is hell.

That's my very last word.

1. Dimedrol is an antihistamine known by the chemical name of Diphenhydramine and as Benadryl in the U.S.; part of Soviet drug lore.2. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sovok