How do you do,
Our dear spectators,
Our severe critics!
You will see a film
About the last real swindler.

Swindlers -
Are dishonest people -
They play dirty tricks,
And for that they are kept in houses,
Which are called prisons.

Prisons -
Are strong buildings,
Windows, doors are with grilles, -
They can better be looked at,
It is better only to look at them.

This film -
Is no parting words for lads,
And much less for girls,
This is simply a play,
And what a play.

Swindlers -
We meet sometimes, -
It’s true, considerately less often,
Less often than at the tsar
Or shall we say, in America.

Don’t consider this film
As a decision:
All of it is a joke and fictions,
This is simply a play,
And what a play.