Ay te tsi nye te no

Here is the transliteration from Russian to English. Last week, I discovered that I still had the original vinyl album & liner notes. The album notes were very poorly edited - lots of grammatical inconsistencies - and that's only for the English! I have pasted the English under the Russian because I can't imagine how to make columns in this field.

RUSSIAN
Ay te tsi nye te no
vodu khodele
Ay te tsi nye te
fartukh zahubela?

Ay ya shol, tay na ishol
moya mate bela:
“Verney, senu, fartushenu,
to tvoya druzhena.”

Ay ya ishol po pid sad


Tsi ne upala sleuka
vide vide vide vide giuchenoinko
moya cherno-breuka.

Ay ya ishol po pid sad
Tsi ne upala sleuka
vide vide vide vide giuchenoinko
moya servetushka.

ENGLISH
Was it you or was it not you
that went down to the water;
Was it you or not
that lost your apron?

“Will you go immediately or must I?”
So my mother scolds me.
“Return the apron, my son,
to your young girl frined.”

So I went to the garden to see
if the plums hadn’t fallen,
oh, my girl,
my dark-eyed one.