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| | PRO-level points: 42, Questions answered: 56, Questions asked: 8 | Sample translations submitted: 1 | Russian to English: One of Vladimir Vysotsky's songs | Source text - Russian
The performed version of this song can be found at:
http://www.kulichki.com/vv/pesni/u-nee-vse-svoe.html
Although the rhythm pattern may not be obvious on paper, it is the closest match to the performed version of the song which is what I strived for in this translation.
ТЕМНОТА
У нее все свое - и белье, и жилье.
Ну, а я ангажирую угол у тети.
Для нее - все свободное время мое.
На нее я гляжу из окна, что напротив.
У нее каждый вечер не гаснет окно.
И вчера мне лифтер рассказал за полбанки:
У нее два знакомых артиста кино
И один популярный артист из Таганки.
И пока у меня в ихнем ЖЭКе рука,
Про нее я узнал очень много нюансов:
У нее старший брат - футболист "Спартака",
А отец - референт в министерстве финансов.
Я скажу, что всегда на футболы хожу,
На "Спартак", и слова восхищенья о брате.
Я скажу, что с министром финансов дружу
И что сам, как любитель, играю во МХАТе.
У нее, у нее на окошке герань,
У нее, у нее занавески в разводах.
А у меня, у меня на окне ни хрена,
Только пыль, только старая пыль на комодах.
Ничего! Я куплю лотерейный билет,
И тогда мне останется ждать так недолго.
И хотя справедливости в мире все нет,
По нему обязательно выиграю "Волгу".
| Translation - English
Dim
She’s got this: her own stuff—-her own place and her clothes.
Well, and I—-I have chartered a corner from Auntie
Just for her: all my free and unlimited time
Right at her, from the window across I keep staring.
At her place: every night lights are on through the hours of the night.
Just last day, their concierge spilled details for a half-pint
That she’s got: two film stars for old cozy good chums
And one swell, known artist that struts on Taganka*.
And while I—-got my paw in her Home Image Branch,
Of her life, I learned all juicy good tidbit nuances.
Her old bro: keeps goals out for foot-balling “Spartak**”
And her Pops: is a referent in House of Finances.
I’ll tell her: cannot keep from attending foot-ball,
For “Spartak”: and then words of sheer wonder ‘bout “Bubba”
I’ll tell her: I keep ties with the Treasury Chief
And me, too, I play Moscow State Theater for hobby.
She’s got placed, she’s got placed, she’s got placed pretty flowers on the panes.
She’s got drapes, she’s got drapes, she’s got drapes with some shmancy depictions.
But my panes—have got nothing but one fucking zilch!
Just old dust, just old dust, just some old fatty dust lying ‘bout on the boxes.
But that’s fine! I will buy me a lottery pass,
And right then, cause I cannot—-won’t—-wait any loooonger,
And although, I know justice walks somewhere not close,
With that slip, I’ll be sure to win me a “Volga***.”
* Taganka—-a theater in Moscow that first featured Vysotsky himself; equivalent to Off-Broadway in the US in its pick of more provoking themes and language
** Spartak—-a popular, very successful soccer club team from Moscow that was organized back in 1922
*** Volga—-the most expensive brand of automobile manufactured in the old Soviet Union
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