ЩИ [Shi] [English translation]

Mom, I milked the cow,

I mowed the hay in the meadow,

Mom, I choped some wood,

I fed the hog in the barn.

Now I'm tired by the evening,

Because I worked hard all day long.

I want to eat so much

That I can swallow even any hokey.

(REF:)

Take meat with gristles

And cook me hardboiled shchi,

You rinse the iron cauldron

And cook me shchi in this cauldron,

Throw more vegetables in the cauldron.

I can't live without shchi.

Please cook me the Russian shchi,

That I will grow stout.

(INTERLUDE)

Mom, you know that I'm fine with you,

But I decided to marry.

Mom, please find me a bride

So she could cook shchi.

I can't live without schi even one day,

I agree to marry even a fool girlfriend,

She may be ugly and pimply,

If only she knows how to cook a good shchi.

(REF)

(INTERLUDE)

Mom, come here, I tell you

That I will join the army.

I just received a summons to the recruitment office.

Oh, why did you begin to cry again?

Mom, I will serve in the army very well,

And I will execute all orders,

But if they don't give me shchi,

I just will run away from the army!

(REF)

(OUTRO)