В Гостях у Соседа [V gostyakh u soseda] [English translation]

At night I was on way home

A bit drunk.

Everything was calm around,

None was seen in the village.

But suddenly I saw my neighbour

In the moon light.

He was limping a little

Hurrying to meet me.

I’ve never known him

And never been to his home.

But that time he smiled

And invited me unexpectedly.

Everything growing in his kitchen garden

He picked on our way

And laid the table.

He offered the bitter (1).

His bitter

Made me heavily drunk.

And the host himself

Became as blue as a dead.

And when we went out

To the porch to refresh ourselves,

Suddenly hair covered

His entire face.

[Chorus:]

Oh, my stupid head!

My drunk head,

I love you!

He refills my glass

On the sly,

And I do drink.

Such vision

Sobered me up at once.

And I saw

An entirely different picture.

Somewhere in the depth of the forest

I was sitting between the pines

Holding the pinecone instead of the glass

Near my mouth.

[Chorus:]

The rascal stuffed

Me with his devilish food,

Feed me with a toadstool,

Gave to drink the swamp water

The devil saw I was drunk

And changed my reality.

He scoffed at me!

If I could catch him, I would kill!