Songs of Other Authors Performed by Vladimir Vysotsky.

Commentary to the song “If I’m Suddenly Sick”.

As the epigraph to this song, there can be used the words of Porphyry Ivanov, peace be upon him: “There is no death in Nature.”

A translation version of line 7:

Bandage my bleeding head with the road through the forest of birches,

The presented text is adapted from Yevgeny Bonver’s translation.

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