Lyudmila Zykina
(1929-2009)
sings
The song was composed in the style of Russian folk song.
На вечерней зорьке
Уточку убили,
Уточку убили –
Метко подстрелили:
Лишь одна дробинка
В сердце ей попала.
За кустом в болото
Уточка упала.
Как она упала –
Клювом в воду ткнулась,
Так она лежала,
Не пошевельнулась,
И её по ветру
Отнесло в осоку.
Не нырять ей больше,
Не летать высоко.
Не нашёл охотник
Уточки убитой,
За кустом болотным
Камышами скрытой.
Не достал добычи,
Зря искал, бранился…
Долго над болотом
Селезень кружился…
На вечерней зорьке
Уточку убили,
Уточку убили –
Метко подстрелили:
Лишь одна дробинка
В сердце ей попала.
За кустом в болото
Уточка упала…
At sunset
The mallard is killed,
The mallard is killed,
With precision it is shot:
Only one pellet
Has hit its heart.
Behind a bush into the swamp
The mallard has fallen.
As it has fallen,
Hitting the water with its beak,
So it has stayed on the ground,
Without moving,
And with the wind
It was carried to a sedge.
It will never dive anymore,
It will never fly high in the sky.
A hunter has not found
The killed mallard,
Behind a bush in a swamp,
Hidden among the bulrush.
He has not got his prey,
He was searching it in vain, swearing…
For a long time over the swamp
A mallard drake was flying in circles…
At sunset
The mallard is killed,
The mallard is killed,
With precision it is shot:
Only one pellet
Has hit its heart.
Behind a bush into a swamp
The mallard has fallen…