| Once I was driving before Christmas
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| Drive a horse with a horse-drawn whip
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| A dark forest stands in my way
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| Someone in that forest howls and screams
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| I rode to my dear one in flight for 15 miles
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| And it sweeps around, only the tail is visible
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| My horse is black
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| Wait, my love, I'm with you
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| But suddenly I hear a howl, my horse gave a gallop
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| Oh, my God, you almost fell into a snowdrift
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| I got my sawn-off shotgun out of my sheepskin coat
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| And he shouted to the horse: “Help me out, dear!”
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| And the unclean ones rushed after me like that
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| That I began to be baptized, fear pierced my soul
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| I shoot at random from the sawn-off shotgun
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| Oh, I wish I had silver bullets!
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| God help me!
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| Oh, these enemies defeated me!
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| Nikolai Ugodnik, protect!
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| Oh, the devils have finished it, their mother's children!
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| And the farm is just a stone's throw away
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| Vile ghouls can not catch up with me
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| Here is the house where mine lives
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| I will circle the holy circle around the house
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| I drove the horse to the boil and at once
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| Hay almost gave him a haystack at a time
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| “Eat you, my dear, because you saved me!
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| Oh, you crow! |
| — I praised the horse
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| God help me!
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| Oh, these enemies defeated me!
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| Nikolai Ugodnik, protect!
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| Oh, the devils have finished it, their mother's children!
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| Save - I am baptized, Mother of God!
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| When I rush back, how will the weather clear up
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| Pebble dear knocked on the window -
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| Your darling has come, get the wine
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| I’ll take a sip of wine from a ladle, heart, mother
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| I'll hug the pebbles and we'll go to sleep
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| Tomorrow, in the cold, I will rush home again
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| Help, Christ and my crow
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| God help me!
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| Oh, these enemies defeated me!
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| Nikolai Ugodnik, protect!
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| Oh, the devils have finished it, their mother's children! |