Music by B. Okudjava
Lyrics by B. Okudjava Performing N. Urgant
Equirhythmic translation by Em Rostverg
There are no birds to sing, there are no trees to grow,
And only we stand, side by side, and grow into the ground.
The planet spins and is now burning,
There’s smoke all over our land,
This means we only need the victory -
Just one for all of us, the price is no concern!
Just one for all of us, the price is no concern!
We’ll soon confront a fatal fight,
And yet the foe won’t win,
Cast doubts away, into the night, we’re departing
With our detached Tenth Parachute Brigade,
With our detached Tenth Parachute Brigade.
Just as the fight dies down, another order sounds,
And postmen crazy go, as we cannot be found.
Red flares take off quickly skyward,
Machineguns fire just nonstop,
This means we only need the victory -
Just one for all of us, the price is no concern!
Just one for all of us, the price is no concern!
We’ll soon confront a fatal fight,
And yet the foe won’t win,
Cast doubts away, into the night, we’re departing
With our detached Tenth Parachute Brigade,
With our detached Tenth Parachute Brigade.
From Kursk and from Oryol the war brought us not all
To enemies’ doors right before, my brother, it is so…
We’ll look back once we’ll have succeeded
And won’t believe it ourselves,
But here, today, we only need the victory -
Just one for all of us, the price is no concern!
Just one for all of us, the price is no concern!