Московская песня [Moskovskaya pesnya] [English translation]

It's been snowing all night over

And all is white outside the window

And a new calendar is thicker than a reference book

And a street cleaner - a short Tajik -

Is circling round the yard with his spade,

Swearing at January in the language of Khayyám

The holidays were forgotten long ago

Just like the last year’s movie,

Whose storyline no one can recall

And I'm carrying flowers

For you to know something

That only I know so far.

I know for sure: the ice will thaw,

An oriole will sing in the midnight silence.

And the spring will come into the cold world

Like a warm sleepy red-haired girl

They have forecast a snowfall,

The streets stand still in traffic jams,

The cars look like snowdrifts with an exhaust tube.

The invincible “Boney M” is singing on the radio

About the surf falling upon Bahamas.

People are hurrying, sliding

To the entrance of the all-weather metro,

Losing their mittens in the mud,

And I’m hurrying, with flowers under my coat,

To tell you that,

Despite any weather forecasts,

I know for sure: the ice will thaw,

An oriole will sing in the midnight silence.

And the spring will come into the cold world

Like a warm sleepy red-haired girl

A street wit has glued an announcement

“Ski Rental” to a “Tobacco” kiosk,

But people don’t have fun

As the snowfall has suddenly interfered

With their everyday “drive”.

Pensioners and doctors,

Merchants and weavers

Are all united by the disaster

And only a lively tot,

Looking like a huge watermelon,

Is sitting on his little sleigh, smiling, just like me

He knows for sure: the ice will thaw,

An oriole will sing in the midnight silence.

And the spring will come into the cold world

Like a warm sleepy red-haired girl

We know for sure: the ice will thaw,

An oriole will sing in the midnight silence.

And the Spring will come into the cold world

Like a warm sleepy red-haired girl (3)

• Artist:Sergey Trofimov
• Album:Следующая остановка (2007)