Somewhere in the spring, the front has already passed
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The boys followed - me in the woods
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The peasant of the wounded man found him and took pity
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He was young and not rich
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Some grass, something like a hut
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And in the cowshed there is one dirty cow
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I'm lying in the straw, licking my wounds
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Then the peasant bursts in fearful:
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- They're coming Ruskie! |
- he calls - but from the west!
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- What are you so anxious?
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Maybe this is the end of the war
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Or they send power to the people!
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We approach the edge of the forest
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And there the Ruskies - the cows graze -
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A herd of a thousand heads, plump, healthy, dairy
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Since he eats the grass under guard
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You know - they lead them to Russia
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From Poznań, so captured - post-German
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Listen - I say - I feel something like that
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That you trade here
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Go for moonshine, he hid something behind the barn -
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Ruski will not eat, but drink
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And this cattle is nobody's
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After all, it will be useful in the barn - a second cow!
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Here comes the peasant - and a short speech:
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Vodka - cow, cow - vodka
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But the rifle guard - nie, says
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If the cows don't count
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They will put nothing under the wall
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We lost it, so the number must match!
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The peasant thought and remedied
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He brought the skinny cow
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He added moonshine and turned it into a greasy one
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It roars little, gives milk
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The peasant is happy and I am happy
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We are a cow - a pig was planted by the Russians!
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They have not sober well yet -
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They flew to the farm
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A cow in a chain, a bow tie for me, a peasant beaten -
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That's how they drank for free
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They regained property of the army
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And they discovered in addition - a bandit shelter
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For ten years I have been visiting their country
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Permanent in the eleventh year
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I returned to where I traded with them
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Peasant, it did not go so smoothly -
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He lives supposedly - near Kamchatka
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At least I didn't see him anymore
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Our cow - as if she guessed
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What awaits her - she quickly fell
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Before they chased her to the other side of the Bug
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The funeral was solemn -
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In a nearby land, because it is native
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Lay her bones -
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Neatly chewed |