Lyrics Александр Твардовский - Поединок

The German was strong and agile,
Okay tailored, firmly sewn,
He stood, like on horseshoes,
Do not scare - do not run.

Well-fed, shaven,
For good good fed,
In war, in a strange land
Sleep off in the heat.

He hit, not fear,
Beat to shoot down for sure.
And it was like a big bone
In the Russian mitten hand ...

Did not play hide and seek with death, -
He took - fight and be quiet -
Terkin knew that in this fight
He is weaker: not those grubs.

There is a new law of war:
In retreat, eat enough
In defense - is that true,
In the offensive - on an empty stomach.

German knocked so that the jaw
As if to the right.
And then the fighter, without aiming,
Khrynul German between eyes.

And the snow did not spit
The first blood is evil salt,
German again in the sled thrust
With the same force, in the same pain.

So come together, grappled close,
What are the clips, wheels,
Automatic - to hell, go away!
Only used a knife and could help.

Fighting two in a couple of clubs,
It is no longer a question, -
Get on Terkin from a strike
If I could keep my teeth

But while Terkin sleds
How much could
In battle, the shore
I moved the German, like a barbell,
Yes, not in the sled,
And under the sigh.

Groaned Terkin: bad thing
Bad thinking fighter.
Well, that is light in body -
Flew off. And then b - the end ...

Resist - and myself with a fright
Terkin gave the German a bream,
So own hand
I almost took out of the shoulder.

Damn her! Glad I didn't miss
Although the teeth are not full account,
But the German left eye
Observations does not lead.

Fight - fight, not a toy!
Though the face burns with fire,
But the German red yushkoy
Decorated like an egg.

Here it is - in the half-file - the enemy.
Nose to nose. Tightness
How nasty is he -
German spirit out of his mouth.

Maliciously Terkin spat blood.
Well, the smell! Knocks down.
Oh, you bastard, for health,
Not otherwise, eat garlic!

Where are you in a hurry - to the hostess?
Uterus, mlek? Womb, yay?
Provided decided to honor us?
Serve it! And who are you

Who are you to our grandmother
Stated on the threshold
Without asking, without throwing off hats
And do not wipe your boots?

With the old woman to cope with strength?
Serve it! No who you are
What should you in Russia
Serve we drink and eat?

Isn’t the cripple a wretched one?
Or a kind person -
Got lost
On the way to,
Asked for
For the night?

Good people, people are happy.
No, you yourself are strong.
You direct
Own order.
You come -
Your law

Who are you? I have no sense,
Whose son and father you are.
The man in all respects -
Man are you Not. Scoundrel!

Two are treading around
Like a couple in a circle
And look into each other's eyes:
The beast - the beast and the enemy - the enemy.

As in the ancient battlefield,
Chest on the chest, that the shield on the shield, -
Instead of thousands, two are beating,
Like a fight will solve everything.

And near the village,
Where their light of day has found them,
Airplanes, tanks, guns
Both are behind their backs.

But before the fight they do not care,
And no sound from those sides.
Alone - breast, body
Terkin beats, holds the front.

On the sad backyard,
At the left courtyards
Keeps the front Vasily Terkin,
In oblivion swallowing blood.

Beats to death the brave guy
So the smoke is raw,
Like the whole country Power
Sees Terkin:
- Hero!

What a country! At least a company
I could see from afar
What is his job
And what is the matter here.

Only Terkin is not offended.
Not then go to death
To someone saw.
Good b. And no - well, well ...

Beats to death the brave guy -
So, as they fight in the war.
And already with the right hand
He does not own completely.

The bone hums from the wound of the old,
And him to beat harder,
To put the left punches,
Well left to be left.

Terkin beats,
In a vigilant fight,
Wipes blood and sweat.
Exhausted, killed Terkin,
But the enemy is no longer the same.

Far from that gas station,
And the whole face is beaten,
Like an apple povyavka
What else can not eat.

Blood - icicles. but
In the heat of the fight comes.
German proud.
And Terkin is proud.
- Since you are a dog, I am a dog,
Once you damn
So I myself - hell!

You did not know my nature
And the nature - the first grade.
To shreds skin -
Terkin Churu
Do not ask. That's where the hell!

Who is afraid of death alone -
Who spat a hundred deaths.
Let you hell. Yes, our devils
All devils
A hundred times devils.

Bey, don't milui. Teeth set.
And you kill, and then
On you, like a tick, hang,
Dead be alive.

Sign on me, be gentle,
Yes, get me ahead.

Oh, how are you! To fight with a helmet?
Well, not a vile people!

Good! -
         And then,
Anger and pain taking in a fist
Unloaded grenade
German Terkin - from the left - slam!

The German gasped and went limp ...

Terkin gate wide open,
Terkin sat down, swallows the snow,
Looks sad, breathes hard, -
Worked man.

Okay friends, nice
Having done business to the court -
Go to battalion
From intelligence in the morning.

On the ground to step Soviet,
Thinking - you never know what!
Automatic carry German,
By the way, over the shoulder.

"Language" - the prey of the night, -
What goes where it does not want
Three steps ahead
Customize:
- Go, go ...

See, know that every counter-
The cross is your own.
Not familiar, but glad heartily,
What came back you alive.

Report on all the form
Hand over trophies slowly.
And then you feed, -
It will be a measure of the soul.

The foreman will let go of the glass,
Stern eye mowing at her.
And then at the stove frying
Lag, sleep The war is not all.

Front left, front right,
And in February