Prvi Maj [English translation]

Popular uprising failed to begin today again

Everybody's going to the trade union May Day picnic

Proletarians striding to their destination as one

Nostrils are tickled by the smell of barbecue

In the brook a couple of beer crates are cooling

Plum brandy is being sipped out of bottles

No one's there to carry workers' slogans today

And nobody will be singing Bandiera Rossa

Nobody's wishing for teargas and truncheons

Why spoil the party with politics

Tequila Sunrise, instead of Molotovs

A cordon of cops is joining the folk dance

The whole of ex-Yugoslavia is rising

We will be nobody's slaves

Fearlessly partying, comrade with comrade

We're bravely munching and drinking in unity

Pour us some brandy and raise your glass to the end

Redundant workers are celebrating May Day

Here we part our ways, fair well, goodbye

We're going bankrupt, happy May Day

Today isn't the Olympics

Today isn't the Gay Parade

I'm sure it's not the Scrambled Eggs Day*

Today is the holiday, the International Workers' Day

Workers' song is echoing loudly

A song that celebrates a work-free day

Sun shades, finger food, the brook is burbling

Why spoil the perfect plan?

Nobody cares for class struggle either

In the pot veal stew is simmering

Who cares about revolution and the Commune of Paris

Here's ten ćevapčići in half a bun

When the barbecues burn out and the singers shut up

When blankets and deck chairs disappear from the meadow

You'll lie tired in your bed

And dream of deserved workers' paradise

Before that dream, promise yourself

Only fools go bankrupt

The dole is the beginning and retirement is the end

The working class is going to heaven