Where did you spend seventeen? On Bolshói Karétny. Where’re the troubles that you’ve seen? On Bolshoi Karetny. Where’s your gun jet black and mean? On Bolshoi Karetny. And where today have you not been? On Bolshoi Karetny. Had you now forgotten ’bout this place? No, you’re still recalling it again. And I say your years were lost without a trace, If you haven’t been to Karetny Lane. And it’s true since: Where did you spend seventeen? On Bolshoi Karetny. Where’re the troubles that you’ve seen? On Bolshoi Karetny. Where’s your gun jet black and mean? On Bolshoi Karetny. And where today have you not been? On Bolshoi Karetny. It’s completely different today, It’s renamed since then, believe or not, And yet, no matter where you are, and what’s your way, You’ll be walking down to this old lot. And that’s true since: Where did you spend seventeen? On Bolshoi Karetny. Where’re the troubles that you’ve seen? On Bolshoi Karetny. And where the lights at night are lit? On Bolshoi Karetny. And where today have you not been? On Bolshoi Karetny.
© Kirill Tolmachev. Translation, 2022