Текст песни Владимир Высоцкий - Вот раньше жизнь

Here before life -
and up and down
You go without escorts,
You will smoke a "plan",
go ban
And you're making passengers.

And on robbery
take with you
A reliable slut,
Then - for the chest
somebody
And "do Warsaw."

While watching,
while threatening -
We transfer this business.
Gorged with good,
but I took it
Petrovka, 38.

Passed an orphanage, a prison, a shelter -
And the term was not afraid,
When they were taken to the People's Court -
A little worried.

Why do we lie:
"People's Court"! -
I did not see the people.
The judge is open space,
and the prosecutor
Immediately offended me.

I answered the questions,
But the verdict - with a sneer,
And I do not agree at all
With such a formulation!

I do not deny the guilt -
It was not the first time that I sat down,
But they wrote that with people
I rudely treated myself.

Not true! - quietly come up,
You ask for a hundred-ruble note ...
What does the knife,
at what robbery?
Change the wording!

Oh, there would be a hall -
I used to say:
"Comrades, dear ones!
Why blame -
because you are me
They fed and drank!

I gave every money to me
No tears,
threats
and blood ...
Thank you very much
For all
on a kind word! "

And this hall
I would have to clap,
And I, having interrupted sobs,
In a low voice he said:
"Thank you for your attention!"

Well, it's true -
a lie, after all,
That I am a robber clever?
How do people look at me in the eyes
With such a wording ?!

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