Садовник [Sadovnik] [English translation]

All day long a man’s sisters pestered him without an end

“In the forest lies a garden which is tended to by a stranger

You will go there and pick us flowers

Hiding under cover of the darkness”

And the man made a choice

In the garden, I will go

For these women that I see all day

Will never give any rest!

only one hour past

He took a knife and then left

To a stranger's garden in the dead of night.

To pick flowers

[Chorus:]

Hurry brother quick, to the woods you go

Take the gardens blooms, and then bring them home

In the strangers land, Brother don’t delay

To us you will give the flowers you have stole

An hour past, another went

To the house no one came

Unease crept upon the sisters minds

How much longer will brother take

The light of dawn lit the house

brother was still missing

But now the hens outside began to fuss

And now feet were heard at the door

[Chorus]

With a grin from ear to ear

The gardener came inside

And he left a wreath of flowers behind and disappeared

And said no words

All the sisters screamed out loud

Looking at the flowers

For among the wreath the head of their brother laid