Two verses in

Two verses of the pirate ballad ("Ballad of the tipsy gunner"? It seems to have a weirdly irrelevant title) now more or less complete, although neither rendition is as good as I would have liked. But I'm definitely stuck into translating it now.

*sigh* Oh, Boyarsky, what are you getting me into?

(Or, as the football fans of St Petersburg Zenith -- of which he is a passionate celebrity supporter -- put it in this home-brewed d'Artagnan-chant: "Hey! Boyarsky! We have returned! A thousand devils!" ;-D)

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