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