Hungarian Military & Patriotic Songs - Csínom Palkó versuri traducere în engleză

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Dapper Palkó

Dapper1Palkó2, Dapper Jankó3
My bony4carbine
My beautiful, silky gunpowder-pouch
My imposing pair of pistols
 

Let's go then, good soldiers
Let's drink heartily
Let each of us go dancing
With their betrothed
 

Let none of us feel regret
Let's go to the Alföld5
Our hands will be the demise
Of the strength of the labancs6
 

Good soldiers, we are free to travel to
The land between the Tisza and the Duna7
Since the labancs has never had the right
To lay claim to it
 

The crane-legged, magpie-nosed
Miserable Germans
Are running from us, they're terrified of us
A miserable nation!
 

Their backs are curved, weighed down by
Smoking matchlocks8
Exhausted, languid poles
For knocking off walnuts9
 

A firey cord, a tiny tuft10
Their pants are messy
All of them have their
Big, hungry mouths wide open
 

All of their belongings
Are poorly patched-up and full of lice and dirt
The brims of their hats
Are so wet, they're hanging low
 

Standing in formation, lots of them
Convince their fellows
To hand down a frog-cooking skewer
It goes from one dog to another
 

Their mouths barely open
To shout 'Who goes there?'11
Their stomachs rumble and growl
And they hurry to sate their hunger
 

The ugly ribbon they wear
Gives them a disheveled appearance
All of their belongings combined
Wouldn't worth a dolman12made of frieze13
 

Their calfskin double bag14
Wound up being empty15
In their bosoms, many thousands
Of their cattle are grazing16
 

These cattle are called lice
May they17keep them18all!
May they skin them, their skin will be good
To make a calfskin double bag
 

Because they are a really weak nation
They are used to this
They get plenty in the own country
So, they should go where they belong!
 

Actually, to what end are we fighting for
Good kuruc19warriors?
Since I can never find anything particularly valuable
On these guys20
 

But I hate them because they're miserable
Yet, in their pride
Despite the fact that they almost fall over21they set out
To destroy the Hungarians
 

Their dogtooth has grown out22
For Hungarian bread
But that will give them tooth decay
That hour will come!
 

You've caused the death
Of many Germans23already
You pitted yourself against them
In a battle at Szabados
 

You've tried your luck many times
Alongside us, against the Germans
And you never experienced
A lot of misfortune
 

We've sent a lot of pompous German lords
Into slavery
We've trampled on a lot of hats
Upon the meadows
 

Come on! Let's chase and cut down
All of our enemies today too!
Let's show our nation
How good of a warriors we are!
 

The Germans are running, the firey cord10
Falls from their hands
Their autumn bitter mushrooms
Fall from their heads24
After 'em, kurucs! After 'em!
 

His gun is yours
And his mare25is mine
You can have his gunpowder-pouch
 

Come on, Miska,26Come on!
Get on top of the firey labancs!
The plunder from this valiant fight
Will be ours!
 

But these weapons
Don't worth a single coin27
Leave them, take their sabres!
Lop off their heads too!
 

The loudmouth Croatians
Wear black boots also
Their tetanus28riddled steeds have long necks
And short tails
 

They have one rusty carbine
And a dull sabre
They sleep together
With their crusty-eyed mares29
 

Even though they don't starve to death
They have no animal feed30
And often not even one of them from a hundred
Has enough tobacco for a single pipe!
 

The valiant kurucs
Have bespoke dolmans12
Boots with spurs31
And a galloping steed
 

The unmounted32kurucs
Have a spring in their step
And they run like
A Pelagus horse33
 

They have valiant arms
And crimson boots on their feet
Their sandals are adorned with pearls
And their kapca34is made with silver
 

There's fancy wolfskin on their backs
A short little dolman
A bony4carbine
Hangs from their necks, adorned with pearls
 

Their golden sabres are inlaid
With everything that shines
Their cap is lined with marten fur
Their hackle35is starry36
 

The kurucs are span-clean
Their wives are like pearls
The labancs are like week-old, unwashed linen
Their wives are like mist
 

The poor kurucs lose37because
They often drink one
For the life of the emperor
They throw glasses at each other
 

Come on then, lieutenant, sir
Let's ransack the livestock
Of all our enemies
Let's drive their cattle away!
 

If they attack you because of their money
Slam their door in38
Drill a hole into their barrel
And drink all their wine!
 

Grab the beard
Of the peasants
Drive away their cattle
And as for them, slap them in the face!
 

Those labancs should get out
Of our noble country
Before we make leather straps
From their backs!
 

• 1. The meaning of 'csínom' is debated.
• 2. A nickname for Pál (male).
• 3. A nickname for János (male).
• Maybe parts of the gun (the handle?) are made from bone.
• 5. The big plains in the eastern part of Hungary.
• 6. Those who were loyal to the Habsburgs.
  Singular: labanc.
  Plural: labancok. (I translated it to English as 'labancs'.
  
• 7. Two rivers in Hungary.
• 8.
• 9. From a walnut tree.
• Part of the mechanism that fires a matchlock.
• 11. Berdó = The phrase a guard shouts to an approaching stranger.
  From German 'Wer da?' = 'Who is there?'.
• 13.
• 14. An 'iszák' consists of two bags connected with straps.
  You can put it on yourself, with one bag hanging in front of you and the other hanging behind you or you can put it on a horse with one bag on the left side of the animal and the other bag on the right side.
• 15. The actual wording used here is:
  Their bag had a stroke (in the sense of: 'when blood stops flowing to a part of your brain').
  It means that the bag became empty somehow.
• 16. We'll learn from the next verse that the 'cattle' are actually lice, the empty bags are riddled with lice.
• 17. The labancs.
• 18. The lice.
• 19. '... a group of armed anti-Habsburg insurgents in the Kingdom of Hungary between 1671 and 1711.'
  
• 20. 'Guys' is only implied, it's not in the text.
• 21. Implied: they are so weak they almost fall on their own, they can barely stand.
• 22. Literally: their dogtooth has germinated (like a seed).
• 23. 'Tokos' is a derogatory reference to the baggy pants, the Germans wore in the era that's discussed.
  
• 24. This is probably a derogatory reference to something.
  Maybe the hats the Germans wore resembled that kind of mushroom (it's a white mushroom, bitter but edible).
• 25. Female horse.
• 26. A nickname for Mihály (male).
• 27. Another possible interpretation:
  But these (Germans) don't worth a coin with their guns.
• 28. Not sure.
  The song literally says that the horses have 'cramps'.
  
• 29. Female horses.
• 30.
• 31.
• 32. Infantry.
• 33. Pelagus means 'sea' in Latin.
  I don't know.
  Maybe a Pegasus (winged) horse?
• 34. A pieace of cloth that you wrap around your feet before putting on your footwear.
• 35.
• 36. I don't know what this means.
• 37. Another possible translation:
  are lost.
• 38. Another possible translation:
  Cut their door down.

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