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Subtitles for Merry-Go-Round 3 (1971)


English
October 06 2022 19:08:24
Created by Eus, Niffiwan, ?
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Originally subtitled by Eus in 2013. Heavily revised by Niffiwan in 2022. The first poem couldn't be made to rhyme, but the attempt was made for the other two.

"The Blue Meteorite" - translated by Eus & Niffiwan

Somewhere out in space, in flight,
Is a blue meteorite.
You are walking - and it flies.
You are running - and it flies.
You fall down - and it still flies...
Out in space - the meteorite.

Bit by bit you will grow up,
Ten galosh-pairs you'll use up,
You will read a heap of books,
Become an astronomer.
And one evening, you'll go out,
To visit your friends there.

Suddenly
The loudspeaker says:
"Tonight
In the Taiga fell a meteorite"
All of the world does it excite -
In the Taiga fell a meteorite!

And you will say to your good friends,
Leaving Moscow on your mission:
"I will not visit you today;
I urgently must fly away
On a surveying expedition."

...You, today,
Are eight years old,
Before you lies
The whole wide world,
But in the cosmos somewhere...

There flies, flies, flies, flies -
Your very own blue meteorite -
Your precious gift most fair.

So:
While it zips on its way...
Study briskly, every day.

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"Ginger, Ginger, Freckled Redhead" - translated by Niffiwan, using some ideas from the translation at WikiTranslate

Ginger, ginger, freckled redhead,
With a shovel killed your granddad!
He didn't hit granddad at all!
He loved granddad most of all!

If a boy is freckle-clad,
Does the fault lie with the lad
For being born into this world with freckles?
Yet from very early on,
He'll be blocked at every turn -
Girls and boys will throw insults like pebbles:

Ginger, ginger, freckled redhead,
With a shovel killed your granddad!
He didn't hit granddad at all!
He loved granddad most of all!

So he goes to his granddad,
And his granddad tells the lad:
Look at me, I too have many freckles!
If I walk into the square,
To this day I have to bear
Old grannies who throw insults like pebbles:

Ginger, ginger, freckled redhead,
With a shovel killed your granddad!
I didn't hit granddad at all!
I loved granddad most of all!
I, too, didn't hit granddad at all!
I loved granddad most of all!

In the sky the sun burns bright,
And it says from its great height:
I was also born all ginger-colored!
If I want to, truth be told,
I can turn everyone gold,
Here now, look at what has happened!

Dad is ginger, granddad too,
The world's ginger through-and-through!
Ginger, ginger, freckled redhead,
With a shovel killed your granddad!
But with freckles all around,
Can enough shovels be found?

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