Boy named Сруль

Слова: Ron Cahute & Ihor Baczynskyj

Мелодія: "Boy named Sue" - Johnny Cash

Well тато пішов when I was three

Didn't leave much to mom and me

Just this old бандура and a half a ґальон homebrew

Я не є злій що він пішов

Але що за хольера він мене називав

Before he left he went and named me Сруль

Well I guess he thought що він смішний

Cause all the kids just laughed and ran away

And asked me if my name was really Сруль

І той що пальцем показав

Я йому зуби вибивав

I tell you life wasn't easy at Ukrainian school

Well I grew up tough and I grew up mean

На кожний брекфест я їв хрін

Капуста, ковбаса, and lots of часнику

Cause I knew I'd have to have bad breath

If I was gonna put the man to death

That son of маґуля, the man that named me Сруль

Well it was Vegreville in mid July

And a писанка caught my eye

So I thought I'd stop off and have myself a brew

And there in a field, boots full of mud

Stood my old man там коло город

That son of маґуля, the man that named me Сруль

Well I knew it was my old старий

From the тризуб ring and the cheap toupèe

As he stood there sharpening his rusty tool

I kicked a капуста right at his head

And he turned around and I saw red

And I said "How do you do? My name is Сруль! You're gonna die!"

Я тебе заб'ю

Well I hit him right between the eyes,

With a big бурак, and to my surprise,

He picked up some garlic and shoved a clove in my ear

Well we took the fight right into the street

He picked me right off of my feet

And we went past the стодола and into a pile of гній

Well I thought he was an old баняк

But he fought me like a true козак

He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile

Then I heard him grunt and I heard him curse

He went for the pitchfork but I got it first

So he just sat back and looked at me and smiled

He said "sorry сину, I'm sorry son"

They found my самогонка and I had to run

So I don't blame you if you kill me dead

I said "see ya Сруль" and my heart was sick

But I never thought that name would stick

Cause frankly son, I was gonna name you Fred

I still remember the moment when

I called him my тато and he called me син

And I came away with a secret two homebrew

And I think about him now and then

And if I should ever have a син

I think I'm gonna call him Срулю number two

Словник[ ]

пальцем показав = showed "the finger"
son of маґуля
- Adapted from the expression "son of a bitch"
- маґуля = маґула = незґраба, вайло, незграбна людина = oaf, sluggard, lazy person. Etymology unclear, perhaps from Latin macula: "a mark of shame or disgrace"
Vegreville [...] писанка = Vegreville pysanka / Веґревільська писанка

Виконання[ ]

Ihor Baczynskyj