Roll along, apple, Along the beam
To my father
Oh my father, My own kin, "The Magpie's Gossip", based on the Nekrasov Cossack folk tales "Stupid Magpie", "How a Cossack Watched Mermaids"
Don't you marry off This young lass to that old man
Not that old man, Not that small man,
But marry her off, father, To her dear friend,
Because that old one I truly do not love!
I can hear nothing, No rustling of the grass,
Since my beloved isn't coming, I will go to him myself
Probably on the porch My beloved stands
He's counting sheep And looking at the clock
"Just look, just look, my dear girl, What hour it is!"
"I am likely meeting with you For the last time"
Oh you pancakes, My fine pancakes,
I've made enough pancakes To fill four frying pans
No-one takes a single pancake, No one even gives them away,
Only a grey sow Sniffed at them, then went on her way
Beyond the river's harbor a fire burns, The sow's stomach aches.
Beyond the river's harbor the fire's gone out... The sow's stomach is all swollen!
Soyuzmultfilm, 2007, dir. by Natalia Ryss subtitles by Niffiwan