Crocodile Gena's Birthday Song

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
  • This is a song from a short animation film called "Cheburashka and Crocodile Gena", which is very popular in Russia. Cheburashka, a cute little character, appears later in the episode. Gena feels lonely on his birthday and sings to himself this song. My (versed and literal ) translations of the song are below. Enjoy this proof that Russians can make more heartwarming things than rockets and tanks.
    Poetic (versed and metered) translation
    Let pedestrians toddle
    And the rainwater gurgle
    As it streams underneath their feet
    Let pedestrians wonder
    Why this day full of thunder
    Makes me look so jolly upbeat.
    Look, I play my concertina
    As they pass me on their way.
    It would make me the total winner
    If my birthday was EVERY day!
    A magician, no whopper!
    Shall alight his light blue chopper
    And will do magic tricks for a laugh.
    “Happy Birthday!” he’ll cheer
    And, I hope, makes appear
    Hundred Eskimo Pies with a puff.
    Look, I play my concertina
    As they pass me on their way.
    It would make me the total winner
    If my birthday was EVERY day!
    Literal (no verse or meter) translation
    Run awkwardly,
    Pedestrians over puddles,
    As rainwater runs a river
    On the pavement.
    And it is not clear for the passerby
    Why I am so merry
    On on this rainy day
    Well, I play my concertina
    In front of the passerby.
    Regretfully, my birthday
    is only once a year!
    All of a sudden, on a light-blue helicopter
    A magician will alight
    And will show a movie for free!
    He will congratulate me with my Birthday
    And, maybe, will leave me a present
    Of five hundred eskimo pies!
    Well, I play my concertina
    In front of the passerby.
    Regretfully, my birthday
    is only once a year!

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