Текст песни В.С.Высоцкий - Мангуст

"Snakes, snakes all around - be empty for them!" -
The man screamed in a frenzy -
And he called the mongoose to help,
So that the mongoose will help out.

And the mongooses got to work
Sparing neither myself nor my family, -
They went hunting
No time off and no days off.

And in the deserts, in the steppes and in the pampas
They even gave instructions to the patrols -
Ignore the snakes safe
And reduce poisonous to zero.

Get ready - now it will be sad:
The man appeared secretly -
And set a snare for the mongoose,
Declaring him a harmful animal.

He came in the morning - a dog with him -
And he hid the mongoose in a sack, -
And the mongoose fought back and cried,
And he shouted: "I am a useful animal!"

But the animals in fractures and wounds
Everyone was thrown into a sack like mushrooms -
Foolish with pain in traps
Well, from a twist of fate.

And they wondered: what's the matter -
Why are we being slaughtered?
And the elderly mongoose told them
With a broken front leg:

"The goats in Belgium ate cabbage,
Sparrows - rice in China from the fields
And in Australia, evil mongooses
They exterminated the most useful snakes.

That's what they got a reward for
From these prudent people, -
It can be seen that people cannot live without poison,
Well, that means they can't live without snakes "...

And again:

"Snakes, snakes all around - be empty for them!" -
The man screamed in a frenzy -
And he called for help ...

Well, and so on -
like "The Tale of the White Bull".

1971