In all kinds of weather: A task, then we’ll do it: We’re out on our vessel, And not just for two days. And on land there are daisies and clover, And on land there are flooded spring fields, But all birds also fly to the Northland, If they had enough of the heat. We don’t go into harbors; A task, then we’ll do it. You would not see Gibraltar, You would not pass by Tunis. Stormy seas are rocking our seiner; Without land it is sometimes quite grim, But all birds also fly to the Northland, If they had enough of the heat. For home you’re longing: A task, then we’ll do it. So, why do you trawling, And not just for two days? Since on land there are daisies and clover, Since on land there are flooded spring fields... But all birds also fly to the Northland, If they had enough of the heat.
© Kirill Tolmachev. Translation, 2022