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Vladimir Vysotsky.


Selected Songs (translated by Ilya Shambat)

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© Copyright Vladimir Vysotsky
© Copyright Ilya Shambat([email protected]), english translation
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Date: 18 Nov 2004
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White Waltz
Mountain Echo
Unfinished Flight
Capricious Horses
Microphone
Ballad about Love
Cupolas
Cranes
Ships (Vysotsky's last song)

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White Waltz

O what a ball! Intensity of movement, nerves and sound!
The hearts were beating in three beats and not in twain.
And ladies were inviting gentlemen
To a traditional white waltz - and took the breath away.

And you, that dance with sorrow together,
Decided to invite that one girl long ago -
But you must always leave to go somewhere -
To help somebody or to ready for a war.

And all, still closer, the more real it becomes,
She, one with whom you had intended to come in,
She comes in order to invite you to the waltz -
And in your temple blood was pounding.

Externally calm in a ball full of noise,
You're given away by the shadow of yours -
She tore, and broke, and trembled in blurry light, as you spun.
Held gently by the hand, and whirling her like mad,
And you could have put her across a knife's blade
So why do you stand, crossing arms, not your own and no one's?

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