Текст песни Анатоль Ярмоленко - Подполковник

Colonel, where is your posture,
Head held high?
Would you go so against the tank
In the steppe, where he smoked grass?
Did you go on the offensive in this,
Neither foreign nor his sparing,
In order to fight, break through the encirclement,
Earned the gratitude of the leader?

Chorus:
Comrade Colonel,
Do not be bitter tears.
Comrade Colonel,
Step into full growth.
After your order executed
Killed battalion
And you are not to blame,
And he is not guilty.

Do not look for oblivion in a glass,
Not wheezing with anguish about
What lies at the heart you have a stone
With cross draw blood,
That night in the barracks Kolyma
The battalion was to you more than once,
And that does not write in the Gulag
Captain Solzhenitsyn about you.