Михаил Шуфутинский — Гадалка song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Гадалка" by Михаил Шуфутинский.

Lyrics

стояли в мире старые века,
И нищие и принцы, как подарка,
просили счастья с картами в руках.
Гадалка плутовала, как умела,
и помогал ей хитрый попугай.
И хоть ошибки были то и дело,
её опять просили: «Погадай…»
Погадай, гадалка, на любовь,
Погадай на дальнюю дорогу,
Чтоб удача улыбнулась вновь,
И надежда вновь пришла к порогу.
Гадалка как-то раз, на картах новых,
решила погадать сама себе.
И всё ей выпадал валет пиковый:
любовь и изменения в судьбе.
И вот она, в свои попавши сети,
сидит и ждёт, когда придёт брюнет.
Нет повести забавнее на свете,
ведь было ей без малого сто лет.

Lyrics translation

there were old ages in the world,
And beggars and princes, as a gift,
they asked for happiness with cards in their hands.
The fortune-teller cheated as well as she could,
and a sly parrot helped her.
And although there were mistakes every now and then,
she was asked again: "To tell fortunes..."
Tell fortunes, fortune teller, love,
Tell your fortune on the long road,
To luck smiled again,
And hope again came to the threshold.
A fortune teller once, on new maps,
I decided to tell my own fortune.
And all she got was the Jack of spades:
love and changes in fate.
And here it is, caught in its own net,
sits and waits for the brunette to come.
There is no funnier story in the world,
she was almost a hundred years old.

Video clip for the song Гадалка (Михаил Шуфутинский)