Про Сережку Фомина [Pro Serezhku Fomina] [English translation]

I grew up like everybody with the gang in the backyard.

We drank Vodka, at nights we sang songs, -

And he didn't like me, that Seryoshka Fomin

Because he was so absorbed in himself.

Once we sat at Seryoshka Fomin's -

We with him managed our meetings, -

And heard about that war has begun,

Molotov spoke to us in his famour speech.

At the war commissionership's they said to me:

"Old myn.You produce tanks, the nativ manufactoring plant "Compressors!".

I denied, - but Seryoshka Fomin

Spoke about the army, his father is a professor.

I shed blood for you, my country,

For all of you who take precedences of my heart:

I shed blood for Seryoshka Fomin -

But he sits and doesn't care about anything!

Now, he doesn't go to the cinema -

There will be a report about us before the performance, -

There should be at once Seryoshka Fomin

To conquer on the front the teutones

...But finally the war ended -

We liberated ourselves as if of a ton of burden, -

I met once again Seryoshka Fomin -

And he is a hero of the Soviet Union...

• Artist:Vladimir Vysotsky