Тёмная ночь [Tyomnaya noch'] [English translation]

A dark gloomy night

only bullets whistle in the steppe

only the wind roars in the wires

the stars dimly shine

In the dark gloomy night

you my beloved I know do not sleep

and at the childs cribb out of sight

you wipe a tear

How I love

the depth of you sweet eyes

how I want

to press against them now with my lips

The dark gloomy night

separates us my beloved

and the cold dark steppe

has lain between us

Death does'nt freighten me

I've met her not once in the steppe

and here now

it is circling above me

You are awaiting me

and at the cribb do not sleep

and so I know

nothing will happen to me