Kniazia Jaremy nawrócenie [English translation]

The Cossack chern are shaking in fear,

Chuprynas of dęba are standing -

Knyaz1 Jarema is converting,

He doesn't want the Orthodox Faith.

He bottles up the bad hunch in his chest,

Peasants - Pops 2 and Icons

And him - Sovereign man of Ruthenia

Pulls the Knyazdom closer to the Crown.

Twenty years the ghost rested within him,

Till the Roman Cross enlightened him:

Knyaz Jarema, Knyaz Jarema,

Will be horrible for his children.

Ruthenian lords are whining loudly:

- Look into your soul, władyka! 3

You're giving up everything for nothing!

And you're losing us with politics!

Obvious futility of the requests -

Knyaz laid over the cross with all his might:

- Who loves me - Shall go with me,

or he shall be impaled on a pale!

Twenty years the ghost rested within him,

Till the Roman Cross enlightened him:

Knyaz Jarema, Knyaz Jarema,

Will recommend the bloody Ruthenia to god!

- In humility you won't get

onto the royal court,

Zaporozhe will be set ablaze,

With it will go your heritage!

- Before heritage, I want fatherland,

before Fatherland, I want salvation.

May for Christ's scars,

generations go into fire!

Twenty years the ghost rested within him,

Till the Roman Cross enlightened him:

Knyaz Jarema, Knyaz Jarema,

Will encourage the embers of hungry souls.

- Blood for you, not honour!

Contempt for the Ruthenian Knyaz!

We're for the Commonwealth

Like nails to be cut off!

- Shall it wish to cut, it shall burn

For I will cover myself with the cross;

Koroniarze 4 will see

a Wiśniowiecki5 on their throne!

Towards refreshment of the hearts the topic -

Lies within a crypt covered by glass.

Knyaz Jarema, Knyaz Jarema

Father of children impaled on stakes!

Knyaz Jarema, Knyaz Jarema

Neophyte, as he is a politician.

1. Duke.2. "Popy" are simply Orthodox Priests3. Obsolete Honorific.4. People of the "Polish Crown"5. Jarema's Dynasty

• Artist:Jacek Kaczmarski