Réponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): CAT ENG
Plus criminel que Barabbas
Cornu comme les mauvais anges
Quel Belzébuth es-tu là-bas
Nourri d'immondice et de fange
Nous n'irons pas à tes sabbats
Poisson pourri de Salonique
Long collier des sommeils affreux
D'yeux arrachés à coup de pique
Ta mère fit un pet foireux
Et tu naquis de sa colique
Bourreau de Podolie Amant
Des plaies des ulcères des croûtes
Groin de cochon cul de jument
Tes richesses garde-les toutes
Pour payer tes médicaments
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov (1922 - 1994) , copyright © ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Resposta dels cossacs Zaporoges al sultà de Constantinoble", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Salvador Pila) , "Reply of the Zaporoje Cossacks to the Sultan of Constantinople", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Reply of the Zaporoje Cossacks to the Sultan of Constantinople
Language: English  after the French (Français)
More villain than Barabbas,
horned like the angels of evil,
what Beelzebub are you down there,
nourished with filth and mire?
We shall not attend your Sabbaths.
Rotten fish of Salonika,
long necklace of horrible dreams,
of eyes pulled out by dint of a pike.
Your mother farted wet,
and you were born of her colic.
Executioner of Podolia, lover
of wounds, of ulcers, of scabs.
Pig's snout, mare's arse.
Keep all your riches
to pay for your medicines.
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