Kalashnikov To English Please

[Rojo Cordova]

My hole lige change whe
GORAN BREGOVIC
come to Mexico city
and played!!!!

He made pagan magic in aour hearts
we were all theirs!!!
(we all still be, i think

I would be delighted if you help me translating
"KALASHNIKOV"


THE LYRICS ARE:

Kalasnjikov

Cigani! Juris!!!

1-Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
................. kutz, kutz ehy ja
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Kana hi naj kutz, kutz ehy ja
Devla, .....................
Devla, ....................
Devla, mi dzav te mange an(do) for?
Jek bar? kalashnikov
Kalashnikov
Kalashnikov
Kalashnikov, kalashnikov
Eeeeeeh...

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
......................
...........................

Dalakovac, Markovac, Mala Krsna, Lajkovac,
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa

MUSICA

2- Da capo, ma con "Dalakovac..." musicale

3- Da capo (strofa mancante), finale:

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Vov dil? ka ciudel?
Vov dil? ka ciudel? kana hi naj pala idir?

Zvoncici, zvoncici, cavro pistolcici
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa

Boom, boom....

Zoki, zorice, cavro bobonice
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa

Boom, boom....

Dalakovac, Markovac, Mala Krsna, Lajkovac,
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa

Boom, boom....

Zoki, zorice, cavro bobonice
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa
Boom, boom....

Cigani ! Stoj !

[Spring]

oh i understand you about Kusturica but there's really nothing much to translate in that song... Or maybe it's just because I hate ittttttttt?! lol I do! Because, they overplayed it here and whenever the song was on in a disco everyone would go MAD!

anyways.. lets see ...

Kalasnjikov

Gypsies! Run!!!

1-Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
................. kutz, kutz ehy ja (hm sorry )
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Kana hi naj kutz, kutz ehy ja (sorry again.. and for the rows bellow )
Devla, .....................
Devla, ....................
Devla, mi dzav te mange an(do) for?
Jek bar? kalashnikov
Kalashnikov
Kalashnikov
Kalashnikov, kalashnikov
Eeeeeeh...

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
......................
...........................

Dalakovac, Markovac, Mala Krsna, Lajkovac,
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa (I don't know what is caje suje but ajde means come on)

MUSICA

2- Da capo, ma con "Dalakovac..." musicale

3- Da capo (strofa mancante), finale:

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Vov dil? ka ciudel?
Vov dil? ka ciudel? kana hi naj pala idir? (ok we need translation from Romani!)

Zvoncici, zvoncici, cavro pistolcici (blubells, bluebells, )
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa

Boom, boom....

Zoki, zorice, cavro bobonice (Zorica is name and Zoki nick name... the rest is beyond my understanding)
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa

Boom, boom....

Dalakovac, Markovac, Mala Krsna, Lajkovac,
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa

Boom, boom....

Zoki, zorice, cavro bobonice
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa
Boom, boom....

Gypsies! Stop!

PS

I suppose the song must have a meaning.. but, like I said, it's beyond my understanding. Sorry!

[Zise_ti_zoi]

Originally Posted by Spring

oh i understand you about Kusturica but there's really nothing much to translate in that song... Or maybe it's just because I hate ittttttttt?! lol I do! Because, they overplayed it here and whenever the song was on in a disco everyone would go MAD!

Hahhaha, that (nothing for translation) was my first thought whent the lyric was posted. I think it's because of that, (I hate it too )

[Zise_ti_zoi]

Aaand, Caje means girl. About the other words, if I manage to remember something will put it in this post.

[Spring]

Yeah argh! It just reminds me of a jumping crowd and me praying to God that it would stop!
lol
But if I reallyyy concentrate.. I see gypsies running around from town to town and there's a girl Zorica in the story... Why they need kalasnjikov in such a cheerful pacifistic song I don't know!
That concentration didn't help much now did it?... :s

So.. please Zise! maybe we make a story after all hehe

[Zise_ti_zoi]

Ok. Let's think a bit. There we have Yugoslavia, and the weapons - manifacturing during the world war 2. Based on this, the poor, hungry population have nothing to hope / belive on, so we can tell that they're suppose to make fun (kinda put colour in their everyday routine), by involveing the "fruit of their work" (the "Kalashnikov" for instance) in a funny song that will enatertain them, after work. Maybe there's the motive of their weaknes of fighting or defending themselves, and the prospect to have a Kalashnikov to do it. Somthing like that is in my head.
The action that imagine is: A group of the workers are playing around a fire ina a circle or something like that, the biggest part of them playing music by instruments (those big large tubes, I forgot their name), and the others holding in hands the "Kalashnikov" as symbol of their hard work. The girl's part here I suppose (because the workers are suppose to be males), is to be attracted by the playing the music males.
Something like that I think.

[Spring]

hehe that definitely inspired me!

Well it's from the movie Underground which I missed!

The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during the WWII, and evolves into fairly surreal situations. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become suspicious, and break out of their underground "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the guy was right: the war is still going on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEqCSmXTX6o : "It's a little ironic song about men that love to carry weapons" he says

[Zise_ti_zoi]

Yup the movie. Just I can't understand the motive with the gypsies and why the song is in gypsian ??
Well, I tried to connect the both thigs, hope that Rojo Cordova will get the idea.
BTW, the clip from youtube, is captured from our national Tv.
I missed it too! And I'm not so eagered to play it now neither.

[Spring]

I played it! And didn't hate it! I think this topic helped me get rid of the grudge I was holding against the evil song!
LOL

[impulssi]

And Devla means God.

Ahh if everyone here contributes a word each times it'll eventually gets translated ;p.
I guess roma gypsies dont really use the internet and still wander around

[Rojo Cordova]

Wow
that's great!!!
all the things that you write here are really interesting...
they make think about the power of the sound by itself, you know


The mexicans, as spanish speakers, we don't know the gypsie language
but we love dancing
everywhere
lol
everytime

so, we saw Goran orchestra's and we thought
man!!!! that sound like
mariachi music with banda music un norteño music!!

so we found in goran orchestra a kind of mexicanfolk musci mix

and we scream full of joy
and wet
('cos that day rained, and that day a 7.8 earthquake happens
and all we stayed there
right in fron goran

Man, that was....................
****ing amazing




yours, Rojo Cordova

[Spring]

Rojo, I guess that's what his music does to people.. no matter if they are Serbian or Mexican! lol

[MayGoLoco]

Hi, well I like all of your thoughts about this song.
I really like the music, balkan brass/gypsie.

I think that 'suje' means 'beautifull' (I read that somewhere, just don't remember where).
And I think that 'te mange' would mean something like 'to love' because I heard a song called
'mangevtut' which means 'I love you'.
Also I think that 'pistolcici' must mean 'pistols' and 'bobonice' 'bonbons'.
And hopaaa is like 'let's dance'.

Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa
Come on beautifull girl, let's dance!

And all that boom boom and kutz (although I think he says puc puc or putz) those are gun sounds.
Dalakovac, Markovac, Mala Krsna Lajkovac are places in Serbia.

You know when there are weddings and other feasts sometimes they fire guns.
So I think that the guys that carry guns with them, fire them and all the beautifull girls dance or something hahaha.

This is how I see it... I hope this makes sense.

CMOKI MAJA

[MayGoLoco]

By the way... maybe 'cavro' means 'like' ...?

So the translation of this part would be...

Zvoncici, zvoncici, cavro pistolcici
BLUEBELLS, BLUEBELLS, (SOUND) LIKE GUNS
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa
COME ON BEAUTIFULL GIRL, LET'S DANCE!

Boom, boom.... (gun shots)

Zoki, zorice, cavro bobonice
ZOKI, ZORICE, (SWEET) LIKE BONBONS
Caje, suje, ajde, hopaaaaa
COME ON BEAUTIFULL GIRL, LET'S DANCE!


Hahah I really like it!

CMOKI MAJA

[impulssi]

And some extra words

Ka : is the verb used to make a future tense
Kana : When
Mi : I

[Rojo Cordova]

my god
i love this exercise

[Mesecina]

I have Polish lyrics to this song and I'll try translate to English... It's simplified lyrics, but maybe help you.

Boom, boom, boom!
My heart beat – toc, toc!
Boom, boom, boom!
When they’ll start – bang, bang!

Oh God, if I have to I’ll sell my wife and her mother
for one, new kalashnikov!
Kalshnikov, kalashnikov, kalashnikov!

Boom, boom, boom!
My heart don’t beat
if somwhere don’t shoot!