Текст песни Дмитрий Хворостовский - Как служил солдат

How the soldier served
Military service
Difficult service
Served for twenty years
And another five years, -
General Anshef
He gave him a vacation.

How did the soldier come
To the birthplace -
All breasts in crosses
Himself gray-haired, like a moon.
Standing on the porch
Young wife -
Twenty years
As if it weren’t.

No wrinkles
On her cheeks
There is no fight
In the braids of girls.
Looked soldier
To his wife
And the soldier said
The word is bitter:

"Seen you, wife,
I lived well
I lived well
Don't get old! "
And in response from the porch
She says
She says
She cries all:

"Not your wife
I'm legal
And I am your daughter
Orphaned daughter.
And your wife
The fifth year lies
In damp land
Under the birch tree. "

As he entered the hut
He sat at the table of a soldier,
Green wine
He ordered to file.
The soldier drinks all night
Gray-haired mustache
That wine is flowing
Either teardrops.