14.10.2020
A date with Odessa
We sailed for a long time,To get here, we long steered,
Sorrows swayed us,
Waves rocked and christened us,
But all those alien harbors,
And foreign cities,
They didn’t leave a mark on the heart.
Let me stay together with Odessa,
I have so much to tell her.
Refrain.
Again, I walk the famous steps,
Leaving the escalator to others,
And the entire boulevard, as one large bouquet,
Odessa, darling, holds forth to me.
Her gait is sure and light,
Her smile is clear delight.
It’s not for nothing the sea a sailor teaches —
Odessa faithfully will wait for you.
They call Odessa - mama
In all four corners of the world,
On all continents,
In different languages.
But for me, Odessa is a girl,
With the jest sparkling in her eyes,
And with a forgotten song on her lips.
With her I wandered along the shore,
And so much back then I told her.
Refrain.
The time of the departure
The captain will announce,
And the watch their place will assume,
And waves will hit the broadside.
And let me, the wanderer,
Be forgiven by Bolshoi Fountain 1
Because it is still there,
While I’m gone.
You’d think that I live in Odessa,
But all the while, she lives in me...
Refrain.
- 1. stretch of beaches