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