[Verse 1]
On the fearsome Terek, on the wide shore
The Cossacks drove out forty thousand horses
And the field was covered, and the shore was covered
With hundreds of shot and hacked up to death people
[Chorus]
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there’s no need to worry about anything
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there's no need to worry about anything
[Verse 2]
Our ataman knows who to choose
Squadron on horseback, but forgot about mе
They got freedom and the Cossack fate
Whеn I was left in a dusty ground
[Chorus]
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it’s lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there's no need to worry about anything
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there's no need to worry about anything
[Verse 3]
The first bullet, the first bullet
The first bullet had injured the horse
And the second bullet, and the second bullet
And the second bullet wounded me straight to the heart
[Chorus]
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there's no need to worry about anything
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there's no need to worry about anything
[Verse 4]
The wife will mourn a little, then she’d marry another
She’d marry another and forget about me
I only regret the freedom in a wide field
I regret a sharp saber and my brown horse
[Chorus]
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there’s no need to worry about anything
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there's no need to worry about anything
[Verse 5]
On the fearsome Terek, on the wide shore
The Cossacks drove out forty thousand horses
And the field was covered, and the shore was covered
With hundreds of shot and hacked up to death people
[Bridge]
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there’s no need to worry about anything
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there's no need to worry about anything
[Chorus]
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there's no need to worry about anything
Lovely, brothers, lovely, it's lovely to live, brothers
With our ataman there's no need to worry about anything