Thread: Need some help translating Любэ lyrics!

Hi, I'm currently building a website with french translations of songs of the band Любэ, but I can't find every russian expressions they sing in my small dictionnary, so I would really appreciate it if some native russian speaker could help me and translate the lyrics I don't understand in english!

Here we go :


Сирота Казанская!
Поднимись по жизни назло!
Дед погиб в гражданскую
Повезло.

Ох, да пошто горевать, все наверно устроится.
Да и поверить хочу, да душа не велит.

Нету у меня никого, да и некому кланяться...
Нету у меня ничего, да и нечего маяться.
Ох, да горюшка-кручина по дорожке катится.
Да и не тот я мужик, чтобы душу рвать, да, да, да...





Thanks!

I hate seeing unanswered posts.
I am not a native speaker but I will make an attempt at the first paragraph.

Kazan orphan!
Rise in spite of life!
Grandfather perished in the civil war
And was carried away.

пошто = ??
горюшка = ??

Originally Posted by kwatts59

I hate seeing unanswered posts.
I am not a native speaker but I will make an attempt at the first paragraph.

Kazan orphan!
Rise in spite of life!
Grandfather perished in the civil war
And was carried away.

пошто = ??
горюшка = ??

пошто = старинная форма 'зачем'
горюшко = diminutive of 'горе'

BTW wilco000 asked for french translations...

Originally Posted by wilco000

Hi, I'm currently building a website with french translations of songs of the band Любэ, but I can't find every russian expressions they sing in my small dictionnary, so I would really appreciate it if some native russian speaker could help me and translate the lyrics I don't understand in english!

I thought he wanted the lyrics in English so that he can translate them to French.
Je ne parle pas Francais.

Originally Posted by kwatts59

Originally Posted by wilco000

Hi, I'm currently building a website with french translations of songs of the band Любэ, but I can't find every russian expressions they sing in my small dictionnary, so I would really appreciate it if some native russian speaker could help me and translate the lyrics I don't understand in english!

I thought he wanted the lyrics in English so that he can translate them to French.
Je ne parle pas Francais.

The only french phrase I know is:
Je ne mangeais pas six jours
(no, I'm not really that hungry )

Ох, да пошто горевать, все наверно устроится.
Да и поверить хочу, да душа не велит.

Oh, but why grieve everything will probly (dunno how to say in english).
And yes, i want to believe, but the ghost(soul?) doesn't (order? let? dunno).

Нету у меня никого, да и некому кланяться...
Нету у меня ничего, да и нечего маяться.
Ох, да горюшка-кручина по дорожке катится.
Да и не тот я мужик, чтобы душу рвать, да, да, да...

I have no one, no one to bow to.
I have nothing, nothing to toil about.
Oh yes, the (Rope?i guess is what he said) Sorrow rolls down the road.

And i dont understand the last line.

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

Oh yes, the (Rope?i guess is what he said) Sorrow rolls down the road.

LOL. He said it was diminutive of "Горе" not Rope.

Ох, да горюшка-кручина по дорожке катится.
Oh yes, the grief-sorrow rolls down the road/path.

OHHH Well then that makes sense. Mixing up cyrillic/latin alphabet, it happens, you know how it is .

Thank you all!

All translations, in english or french, are very appreciated!

I have hard time understanding those sentences:


Я стою один, как дурак и кретин.
Все! Тебе - кабзде-ей.

and

Годы ощутил, хоть я и не дед:
Мне сегодня тридцать лет!

В этот день с иголочки я одет!
В этот день теплом вашим я согрет!

Я рукой нащупал свой карман.
Он мне намекнул, что я буду пьян.
Говорит мне: "День держись, братан!
Лучше протирай стакан!"


BTW, those are not LOUBE, but Sektor Gaza lyrics...

Cпасибо!

Годы ощутил, хоть я и не дед:

Does Дед mean grandpa? Or is it refering to the 'деды' in the army?
many years, and he's still not a дед. Still busting his ass as a private or what?

Grandpa for sure becouse he said "годы ощутил" - "felt the years" so годы here means "age".

Here is my try.

Я стою один, как дурак и кретин.
Все! Тебе - кабзде-ей.
I stand alone, as a fool and a cretin.
All! To you - кабзде-ей. (I don't know what or where is кабзде-ей)

Годы ощутил, хоть я и не дед:
Мне сегодня тридцать лет!
I felt the years, though I am not a grandfather:
Today I am thirty years old!

В этот день с иголочки я одет!
В этот день теплом вашим я согрет!
This day I am dressed with a needle! (I guess this means "dressed to a T")
This day your warmth I comfort!

Я рукой нащупал свой карман.
Он мне намекнул, что я буду пьян.
I groped with my hand in my pocket.
He hinted to me, that I shall get drunk.

Говорит мне: "День держись, братан!
Лучше протирай стакан!"
Tell me: "Seize the day, братан! (brother?)
Wipe a glass better! "

BTW: What is мужик?

Originally Posted by kwatts59

Все! Тебе - кабзде-ей.
All! To you - кабзде-ей. (I don't know what or where is кабзде-ей)

Not "кабзд-ей" but "кобздец". If you know what "пи*дец" is, it's the same but not taboo. If you don't, it's like "you're dead" or whatever, a fatal outcome. So it will be something like "That's it! You're dead!".

BTW: What is мужик?

A spoken form (maybe even a little impolite) of "мужчина", a man.

Да и не тот я мужик, чтобы душу рвать

I'd suggest this translation -

I'm not the man to tear the soul apart.