On the very edge of the earth, where the clear sky
As if coming down behind our bothers end,
A horrible building stood on the mountain high,
From afar reminding UN.

Everything sparkle like lightning -
What a beauty - but only, hold on
In this building poor queen
Lives like in a prison.

And Koscshey the Deathless put ferocious beast
To guard this place from foes, -
But in it’s own way - hapless and meek,
Might have been that beast - who knows!

From missing it’s mum, the beast was sad
The monster always cries, -
Because it has all seven heads,
And fifteen teary eyes.

Koscshey himself (before could’ve fight - hand to hand combat)
From loving queen - became all withered and thin -
In his own way, he became an old fart, -
Well, and the beast - wouldn’t let him near the queen.

"What’s the big deal, let me through,
I’m all shivering from last!..."
"You can take this job, and shove it too -
I’ll never let you pass!"

And decided to get there, a good fellow Ivan:
He said, so what, we’ve seen the likes of Koscshey!
He is always: what and where - and at once he sneaked in there, -
He was hapless and a fool - in his own way!

Whether stuttered eagle-owl,
Whether bittern laughed, -
So sad became the soul
Of Ivan the Fool.

That’s how started his useless heroic deeds,
His worthless fight with Baba-Yaga’s, -
She is also hapless in her own needs -
Just the same forest rubble.

How many witches he forever put to sleep! -
Pair of young ones, in their prime and glory, -
When he saw them in the morning - he sniffed:
What a fool, he felt so sorry!

But, nonetheless, he came near, and his
Sleepy state overcome Ivan, -
In the corner was lying poor beast,
All it’s heads leaning into the fountain.

Right here, Ivan runs towards it, -
Quickly chopping off it’s heads, -
And towards Koscshey he approach swift,
Swinging his sword right and left.

And he threatened two thousand years old man:
"Now, - he said, - I’ll cut off your beard in one moment!
So die, be gone, Koscshey!" But Koscshey in reply:
"I would be glad, but I’m deathless - I can’t die!"

But Ivan, he doesn’t listen, mad like hell:
"Oh, you’re retched capitalist!
There, you build so many rooms for yourself, -
You’ve hidden a maiden, old beast!

"While I took a commitment - I’ll finish my cause!" -
And from those speeches, unheard in a way
Without any interference, on his own died Koscshey, -
He was uneducated, backwards that Koscshey.

And Ivan, with anger red his face, -
Spit on the floor, and kicked Koscshey, -
And to the hapless in her own way
Walked to the poor, imprisoned maiden!...