The Young Sailor (Молодой Моряк)

 Video of English translation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unpxpLbSYM8

Why is it that, in our village, all the girls are in chaos?

What’s caused them to wake up early?

What has caused them such a fuss?

 

Riding through the village is a young sailor

His chest is in medals

Ribbons in anchors.

 

By the river in the morning

The girls crowding row by row

“Hello”, they say in a chorus

“From the Black Sea, our hero!”

 

He shakes each one’s hand, looks her in the eye,

And one is laughing,

“Why can’t we kiss, why?”

 

Day by day, he is relaxing in his parents’ home

Day by day, the girls are sighing,

“We do not deserve his love.”

 

No matter the outfits or the fashions.

He didn’t fall in love

With a single girl.

 

Walks and jokes with everybody,

He confides to each girl here,

“Every time I see the ocean,

There’s a murmur in my ears.”

 

“Where there’s sun and blizzards, lands without a shore,

There, waiting for me,

Is my gentle girl.”

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