Текст песни Helga Ragnarson - Памяти Александра Галича

They shut the faucet downpours and winds,
instead of wings - lasso, to the brim a glass,
and the hand trembles.

I fully survived, survived, brothers, I.
The stepmother is a country - the string does not sing -
emigration.

Price high: Homeland - one,
for whom is she a faithful wife
and to whom - the fault.

And who needs wine, vodka, cognac?
We are not the first time to indulge in taverns
because of a trifle.

Requiem calmed down, the cancan died down.
Lord, forgive these from the Central Committee.
I would have a gypsy choir.

There are clouds in the sky, their longing is light.
Sail to Moscow, presumably.
Oh, the Moscow River.

There is no me in Moscow - do not go crazy.
Spirit strength is light, current strength * is darkness:
oh yes for nothing, brothers, I.

My coffin and prison are emigration.

Helga ragnarson

* Galich died in Paris on December 15, 1977 from an electric shock.