Lyrics Король и Шут - Королева-Ведьма

In a certain kingdom there lived a king. This king had a daughter, a sorceress.
The priest lived at the royal court, and the priest had a son of ten years and every day
I went to an old woman - to learn to read and write. Once it happened to him to go late at night
from school; passing by the palace, he glanced at one window. At that window sits
princess, is cleaning: she took off her head, soaped with soap, washed with clean water,
I combed my hair with a comb, braided a braid and then put on my head in the old place.
The boy was amazed. He returned home and began to tell everyone how he
saw without a head. Suddenly, the royal daughter fell ill, got sick, called her father
and began to punish him:
"If I die, then make the priest's son three nights in a row over me a psalter
to read".
The princess died, they put her in a coffin and carried her to the church. The king calls upon the priest:
"Do you have a son?"
"Yes, your majesty."
"Let him read the Psalter over my daughter for three nights in a row."
The priest returned home and told his son to get ready. In the morning the priest went to study and sits
over the book is so boring.
“What are you grieving about?” The old woman asks him.
"How can I not be sad if I am completely lost?"
"What's the matter with you? Speak plainly."
"So and so, grandmother! We must read over the princess, but she is a witch!"
"I knew it before! Just don't be afraid, here's a knife; when you come to church,
draw a circle around you, read the psalter but don't look back. Whatever it is,
no matter what passions are imagined - know your own, read and read! And if back
look back - you will completely disappear! "
In the evening, a boy came to church, drew a circle around him with a knife and began to
Psalter. Twelve o'clock struck, the lid was lifted from the coffin, the princess rose,
ran out and shouted:
"Ah, now you will learn how to spy under my windows and tell people!"
She began to rush at the priest, but in no way could she cross the circle; then she started
let on different passions; I just did - he reads and reads everything, nowhere
does not look back. And as it began to dawn, the princess threw herself into the coffin and from all
fell into him - at random! The next night the same thing happened;
the priest was not afraid of anything, he read nonstop until the daylight, and in the morning he went
to the old woman.
"Well, have you seen passion?"
"I saw, grandmother, I saw!"
"Today it will be even worse! Here's a hammer and four nails - hammer them in four
to the sides of the coffin, and when you begin to read the Psalter, put the hammer against yourself. "
In the evening the priest came to church and did everything as the old woman had taught him. Struck
twelve o'clock, the coffin lid fell to the floor, the princess got up and began to fly
on all sides and threaten the priest; then she let on great passions, and now also
more: it seems to the priest's son that a fire has broken out in the church, the flame is so all the walls
and covered; and he stands and reads, does not look back. Before dawn
the princess threw herself into the coffin, and immediately the fire was gone - all the obsession vanished!
In the morning the king comes to the church, looks - the coffin is open, in the coffin of the princess up
with his back.
"What?" - asks the boy; he told him how and what had happened.
The king ordered his daughter to be hammered in an aspen stake in the chest and bury her in the ground, and
he awarded the priest with the treasury and various lands.