Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. The Nature Reserve.

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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

He drew the dwellers round, And set to teach them ’bout The most terrible words.

There is a good work about the destructive effect of foul language upon humans and all living things, it is “The Truth about Russian Swearing” by Alexey Badanin (2014) (this work is in Russian).

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.

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