The Luckless Island

...It was the seventh day of the exciting journey...


[Senya]
And I like the song about the hares.

[Gesha]
About what?

[Senya]
The hares.

[Gesha]
Senya, the song about the hares? That's so outdated. Here goes "The Luckless Island"!


Every inch of it is green, lush and also neat,
There's the luckless island in the ocean's sheet.
There's the luckless island in the ocean's sheet.
Every inch of it is green, lush and also neat.

The unhappy savages call this place their home,
Ugly on the outside, but their hearts are warm.
Ugly on the outside, but their hearts are warm,
The unhappy savages call this place their home.

All that they attempt to do, it just goes wrong.
Looks like they were simply born on a Monday's dawn.
Looks like they were simply born on a Monday's dawn.
All that they attempt to do, it just goes wrong.

They can’t catch a crocodile, coconuts won’t grow,
So they cry and pray to God, as their hope runs low.
So they cry and pray to God, as their hope runs low,
They can’t catch a crocodile, coconuts won’t grow.

They are not the lazy kind, they could live just fine.
But what if they'd erase Mondays off the line?
But what if they'd erase Mondays off the line?
They are not the lazy kind, they could live just fine.

Well, by fate's ill design, there's no calendar,
Young and old just waste their days — that's irregular.
Young and old just waste their days — that's irregular.
What a cursed, damned island! — there's no calendar.

A-a-a-and because of all this mess, through night and till dawn
The unlucky savages cry, they are forlorn.
These poor wretches weep and sob, cursing their fate.
Neither day nor year they know — it is now too late.


And, finally, the last foreign port before returning home...

Перевод песни «Остров невезения» из кинофильма Леонида Гайдая «Бриллиантовая рука» на английский

Автор текста: Леонид Дербенёв
Композитор: Александр Зацепин
Исполняет Андрей Миронов