| 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 |