Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. The Nature Reserve.
Commentary to the song “In a yellow hot land...”
In this song, the parrot symbolizes our enemy, as well as in the song “There on the desert island...” (1968), where
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He drew the dwellers round, |
The song was written for the film “My Papa is a Captain” (1969), performed in the play of the Sovremennik Theater “One’s Own Island” (1971) and in the play of the Moscow Literary and Drama Theater of the All-Russian Theatrical Society “There in the Distance” (1976).
The presented text is adapted from Vadim Baranovsky and George Tokarev’s translations.