Jacek Kaczmarski i Zbigniew Łapiński - Kniazia Jaremy nawrócenie

Cossack czerń* trembles with fear,
Oseledetses bristle-
Knyaz Jarema is converting himself,
Does not want the Orthodox faith.
Bad feeling he's holding in;
Pops** and Icons for peasants,
And he - Sovereign lord of the Rus
Drawing duchy to the Crown.

Twenty years his spirit slept
Until Roman Cross enlightened him:
Knyaz Jarema, Knyaz Jarema
Will be terrible for his children.

Rus maidens loudly groan:
- Look into your soul, Władyko!
Since you give everything out for nothing!
And you doom us with politics!
Obvious requests' futility -
Knyaz all night lied prostrate:
- Who loves me - will go with me,
Or i'll stake them!

Twenty years his spirit slept
Until Roman Cross enlightened him:
Knyaz Jarema, Knyaz Jarema
Will command the bloody Rus to God!

- You won't get with humility
To the royal halls,
Zaporozhye will catch flame,
Your legacy will go up in the smoke!
- Before the legacy I want the homeland,
Before the homeland I want the salvation.
For the wounds of Christ
Shall generations die in flame!

Twenty years his spirit slept
Until Roman Cross enlightened him:
Knyaz Jarema, Knyaz Jarema
Will start the souls' ravenous fervour.

- Blood for you, not the honors!
Disdain for the Rus prince!
We are for the Commonwealth
Like nails to cut!
- Who will want to cut, they'll get burned,
Because I'll shield myself with the cross;
Koroniarze*** will live to see
Wisniowieckis on their throne!

Much to hearts' uplift topic -
He lies in the crypt covered with glass
Knyaz Jarema, Knyaz Jarema
Father of the staked children!

Knyaz Jarema, Knyaz Jarema
A neophyte, because a politician.

* czerń - Rus peasantry
** pop - priest in Eastern Orthodox Church
*** koroniarze - (derogatory) polish people living in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth