Кони привередливые - Владимир Семёнович Высоцкий

Владимир Семёнович Высоцкий
- Кони привередливые -
(The Fastidious Horses)

A Translation by Maya Jouravel:

By the cliff, along the precipice, right over deadly ground,
With the whip, I strike my steeds; strike them hard to urge them forward.
I am getting short on air, gulp the haze, drink the wind, yet
With a fatal rapture, sensing: I am done for, I am done for!

Slow down a bit my horses, slow down, please!
Don't you listen to my stinging thong!
But the horses -- just my luck! -- are so hard to please!
Neither lived I so long, nor will I finish this song...
I will let horses drink, I'll complete this refrain,
Just a little bit more I will stay on the brink...

I will vanish from the Earth, swept by a storm like fluffy feather;
At a gallop, in the morning by the snow they'll drag me over
Can't you please prolong my journey to the end of my tether?
Can't you ease your dash, my horses, carry on a little slower?

Slow down a bit my horses, slow down, please!
Don't take orders from my whip and thong!
But the horses -- just my luck! -- are so hard to please!
Neither lived I so long, nor will I finish this song...
I will let horses drink, I'll complete this refrain,
Just a little bit more I will stay on the brink...

Just on time - one can't be late arriving at God's quarters!
Why do the angels over there sound like some nasty mortals?
Or, perhaps, it's just a sleigh-bell that's gone mad and burst out sobbing,
Or it's me shouting at my steeds to slow down my sled from dashing.

Slow down a bit my horses, slow down, please!
I am begging you, don't rush along!
But the horses -- just my luck! -- are so hard to please!
Since I haven't lived long, let me finish this song...
I will let horses drink, I'll complete this refrain,
Just a little bit more I will stay on the brink...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Кони
• привередливые
• Fastidious
• Horses
• Владимир
• Семёнович
• Высоцкий
• Vissotski
• Vysotsky

[joeocho88]

Somebody PLEASE translate this song for me?

This guy thinks the lyrics are terribly important and I would like to know what they mean before I claim it as a "Favorites" on my site.

Thank you very much.

[TheRealCaptainCarrot]

There's a translation in the video description...

...Though translations seem to vary far more than might seem possible if accuracy is to be observed... You might try these for comparison:

kulichki (DOT COM) /vv/eng/songs/altshuller.html#­fastidious_horses

kulichki (DOT COM) /vv/eng/songs/hamilton.html#un­ruly_horses

kulichki (DOT COM) /vv/eng/songs/kneller.html#fas­tidious_horses

kulichki (DOT COM) /vv/eng/songs/shambat.html#cap­ricious_horses

[divosarce]

Volodya Visotsky is a legend; he is one of a kind. Every time when I hear his voice it gives me goose bumps and I want to scream and cry at the same time. I am only 28 and not even Russian, but I never stop missing him. Visotsky forever!!!

[saneisboring]

I love this song so much. Thank you for uploading it =)

[nadini2001]

Моя любимая песень Высоцкого. Он пел с сердцем!

[Drin7777]

Светлая память Владимиру Семёновичу Высоцкому!!! Воистину великий человек!!!

[TheGreyMist]

спасио Тебе Мамочка что Ты мена етого научипа... я люблю Теба

p.s. forgive me any mistakes, still learning how to write in Russian

[Rurik1pervij]

It just my favorite song...........

[shapirapiano]

THE ONE AND ONLY

[einfacheinM]

FUCKING GREAT!

[yumalashkin]

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