Otlichnitsa - Alexandra Golovchenko

(in English)
I'll tell, my friends, the story
Of the bitter children's lot,
Being child has no glory,
I cannot put it in words...
I am told from dawn till nightfall:
"You, be serious and grown-up!"
But my tender childish soul
Does not want to follow up.

Ha-ha-ha, choreography in the morning,
Ga-ga-ga, gammas at noon,
Only drawing, figure-skating,
Classic ballet, playing chess,
Only football, stitching, fencing,
Riding and playing the sax,
Parents and neighbors are harping
"You, be always good, the lass!"

I‘ll tell, my friends, in secret
I am passionately in love
Neither with a poet, nor a dancer,
But with rowdy and rough.
He will never be a president,
He is a menace to good guys,
But Shakespeare couldn't have dreamt of
This bad guy and his blue eyes.

We shall make dad dance on toes
Ma-ma-ma, mama will draw
Ga-ga-ga, gammas are for granny
Grandpapa will stitch decor.

Ha-ha-ha, choreography in the morning
Ga-ga-ga, gammas at noon,
All my life is like a schedule
With Romeo not planned soon.
Only football, stitching, fencing,
Riding and playing the sax,
And my parents go on harping:
"You, be always good, the lass".
Always good, yes, yes.