Ο Μαύρος Γάτος [O Mavros Gatos] [English translation]

There was a black tricky cat

every night-fall he dressed like a groom

he wore his hair somewhat curly

and wore a red bow tie on his tail

He went to every house wherever there was smoke

asking for the girls supposedly for a purpose

and they hurried to put on their wedding dresses

better with a cat than a pot-bellied man

But like I said in the beggining he was a tricky cat

he fit up1 the girls and disappeared like smoke

with so much fertility I wish I had some

the institutions got filled with half-blooded cats2

The lords paniced that they'll suffer a damage

and they'll lose the spoon along with the broth

"you think that the cat's offsprings might make a mutiny

and whatever sweets they were nibbled at will disappear like a bubble"

Like this they found the rightest thing after they thought

the cat to capture as an anarchic scamp

so they sent out their informer-mob

those that the national body consists of

Oh, my poor cat you're so screwed

the nation's hounds are setting you up

and it happened the way I'm saying it, they caught the tramp

he saw they were too black and thought he dealt with friends

Now he cries and wails, he curls up in a ball

as if the cold-hearted judges he might be able to take on his side

"please no you good men, I'm not a cat

I am a man full of emotions3

I mind my interest4 I read the newspapers

and I served in the army for the mother land"

but they wouldn't listen, they sent him to the firing squad5

his eyes somewhat blinking at the sound of the rifle6

If you have a daughter keep her virtuous

maybe the cat won't come but there will be other animals

and if you are a lord and you get offended

I have plenty of space on my shaft to write you there7

1. fit up = in the official lyrics the verb is used as a substitute for the verb "fuck" or -if you prefer it- "copulate"2. half-blooded cats = the offsprings of the "cat" (who as I'm sure you already guessed is not a real cat but a man)3. These 4 lyrics don't really make a lot of sense when written in English, at this part of the song, the "cat" is trying to defent himself.4. or better yet advantage5. in the original lyrics it's written like that: "But they wouldn't listen, they set him up by the wall" meaning that they sent him to the firing squad/gave him a death penalty6. an alternative translation is "his eyes somewhat blink at the gunshot" 7. in Greek this expression is used to say that you don't care/you don't give a damn about somebody or what that somebody said in a slank-ish way. It is similar to the phrase "I don't give a fuck"