Перевод песни Peggy Lee - The Wearing of the Green*

Текст песни The Wearing of the Green*

Перевод песни The Wearing of the Green*

The Wearing of the Green*

Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hear
The news that's going round?
The shamrock is forbid by law
To grow on Irish ground!
St. Patrick's Day
No more we'll keep,
His color can't be seen,
For there's a cruel law against
The wearing of the green.
I met with Napper Tandy
And he took me by the hand,
And he said, "How's poor old Ireland
And how does she stand?"
"She's the most distressful country
That ever yet was seen;
They're hanging men and women there
For wearing of the green."

Then since the color we must wear is England's cruel red,
Sure Ireland's sons will ne'er forget
The blood that they have shed.
You may take a shamrock from your hat
And cast it on the sod,
It will take root and flourish there though underfoot it's trod.
When law can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow,
And when the leaves in summer-time their colour dare not show,
Then will I change the colour, too, I wear in my caubeen
But 'till that day, please God, I'll stick to wearin' o' the Green.


* — Кавер на ирландскую уличную балладу XVIII в.