One of Vladimir Vysotsky's early songs, composed in a folk style.
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Bolshoy Karetnoy is a very posh part of Moscow.

Na Bolshom Karyetnom (Gdye Tvo'i Syemnatzet Lyet?)


- Ãäå òâîè ñåìíàäöàòü ëåò?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.
                - Ãäå òâîè ñåìíàäöàòü áåä?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.
                - Ãäå òâîé ÷åðíûé ïèñòîëåò?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.
                - Ãäå òåáÿ ñåãîäíÿ íåò?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.

        Ïîìíèøü ëè, òîâàðèù, ýòîò äîì?
        Íåò, íå çàáûâàåøü òû î íåì!
        ß ñêàæó, ÷òî òîò ïîëæèçíè ïîòåðÿë,
        Êòî â Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì íå áûâàë.
                Åùå áû âåäü...

                - Ãäå òâîè ñåìíàäöàòü ëåò?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.
                - Ãäå òâîè ñåìíàäöàòü áåä?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.
                - Ãäå òâîé ÷åðíûé ïèñòîëåò?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.
                - Ãäå òåáÿ ñåãîäíÿ íåò?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.

        Ïåðåèìåíîâàí îí òåïåðü,
        Ñòàëî âñå ïî íîâîé òàì, âåðü-íå âåðü!
        È âñå æå, ãäå á òû íè áûë, ãäå òû íå áðåäåøü -
        Íåò-íåò, äà ïî Êàðåòíîìó ïðîéäåøü.
                Åùå áû âåäü...

                - Ãäå òâîè ñåìíàäöàòü ëåò?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.
                - Ãäå òâîè ñåìíàäöàòü áåä?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.
                - Ãäå òâîé ÷åðíûé ïèñòîëåò?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.
                - Ãäå òåáÿ ñåãîäíÿ íåò?
                - Íà Áîëüøîì Êàðåòíîì.


- Gdye tvo'i syemnatzet lyet?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.
   - gdye tvo'i syemnatzet bed?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.
   - gdye tvoy chyorny pistolyet?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.
   - gdye tebya sevodnya nyet?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.

       Pomnish li, tovarish, etot dom?
       nyet, nye zabyvayesh ty o nyom!
       ya skazhu, shto tot polzhizni pateryal,
       kto v bolshom karyetnom nye byval.
            yesho by vyed...

   - Gdye tvo'i syemnatzet lyet?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.
   - gdye tvo'i syemnatzet bed?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.
   - gdye tvoy chyorny pistolyet?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.
   - gdye tebya sevodnya nyet?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.


       Pereimyenovan on tepyer,
       stalo vsyo pa novoy tam, vyer-nye vyer!
       i vsyo zhe, gdye'b ty ny byl, gdye ty nye bredyosh -
       nyet-nyet, da pa karyetnomu praidyosh.
               yesho by vyed...
        
          - Gdye tvo'i syemnatzet lyet?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.
   - gdye tvo'i syemnatzet bed?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.
   - gdye tvoy chyorny pistolyet?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.
   - gdye tebya sevodnya nyet?
   - na bolshom karyetnom.


      On Grand Coach Street (Where Are Your Seventeen Years?)

- Where are your seventeen years?
                - on Grand Coach St.
                - where are your seventeen
                - where is your black pistol?
                - on Grand Coach St.
                - Where aren't you today?
                - on Grand Coach St.

       Do you remember, comrade, this house?
       No, you won't be forgetting about it!
       I say that you've wasted half your life,
       if you haven't been to Big Coach St.
      
                - Where are your seventeen years?
                - on Grand Coach St.
                - where are your seventeen
                - where is your black pistol?
                - on Grand Coach St.
                - Where aren't you today?
                - on Grand Coach St.

        The name has been changed now,
       everything there is new now, believe-it-or-not!
       even so, wherever you may have been, wherever you may wander
       you'll end up going to Coach St.


                 - Where are your seventeen years?
                - on Grand Coach St.
                - where are your seventeen
                - where is your black pistol?
                - on Grand Coach St.
                - Where aren't you today?
                - on Grand Coach St.