Текст песни Александр Дольский - Была война

THERE WAS A WAR

There was a war. One soldier
was dexterous and clever.
He knocked souls out of bodies
on which he became rich.
He was paid by another villain
that he took taxes from those,
who gave their children to kill them.
And parliament took their rubles from their mothers,
so that the sons of dirtier beasts
fell on the field.

There was a war. Another soldier
didn't know who to shoot.
I dropped a heavy machine gun
the clothes were not matched.
And that's when I'm stuck in the mud
his big boot,
the first one slapped him between the eyes.
He could.
And then the next puppy
hit him in sight.
He pulled the trigger many times.
Nobody survived.

Play, accordion, links, string,
eat meat, deputy.
Drink, President. There is a war ...
It's nobody's fault.
And only a cunning general
admitted his guilt,
that too little he sent
boys to the war.

To whom we bow, to whom the shoulder straps,
and a bullet in the forehead for Russian children,
trench, snowdrift, pine coffin.
so it was from time immemorial.