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...”, where
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” and in the play of the Moscow Literary and Drama Theater of the All-Russian Theatrical Society “There in the Distance”.
The presented text is adapted from Vadim Baranovsky and George Tokarev’s translations.