There, a bullet whizzed by,
It struck me in the chest
I was saved on the steppe upon a spirited steed
But the commissar took me out with a sabre
I swayed to, and fell from the horse
CHORUS:
Hey, ho, yes my horse is a jet-black one!
Hey, and a sawed-off shotgun too
Hey, yes a thick fog!
Hey, ho, and Father Ataman,
Yes Father Ataman!
On a but one leg I came back from the war,
Tied up the horse, I sat with my wife
But an hour had not passed -
The commissar, he came,
He untied my horse, and took the wife.
Chorus x2
"The Savior" I took from the wall beneath my shirt,
I set the house afire, I got the sawed-off shotgun
To live under the Soviets -
Is to sell out your faith!
So many of us, we went into the woods...
Chorus