Three Sisters - Daniel Kahn, Vanya Zhuk

Oh, draw won’t you please now, the indigo curtain

And doctors, administer me no more drugs

My creditors stand at my bed, I am certain

The silent ones — Faith, Esperanza and Love

My creditors stand at my bed, I am certain

The silent ones —, ,

«My time, it is short now

And soon I’ll be going

My pockets are empty

My debts are erased

Oh, but aren’t there others

Enough who are owing?

So, please, don’t you cry

My benevolent Faith."

Then, weakly, and guilty

I turn to another

And I tenderly open

My lips to her hand

«Oh, please, don’t you cry

Esperanza, my mother

Your sons are yet myriad

Throughout the land

Yes, please, don’t you cry

Esperanza, my mother

Your sons are yet myriad

Throughout the land."

Then to Love my two empty hands

I do tender

And I hear her voice calling

So softly to me

She says, «Don't you cry, boy

And always remember

I give of myself, in your honor

For free

The hands that have touched you

The fires that burned you

All your sins and your sorrows

You now can forget

For the slanderous tongues of the others

Return to you

Threefold in my ledgers

And settle your debt."

And so purified, pure

And completely unworthy

I broke even as morning

Broke over the sea

Three sisters

Three wives

Three judges of mercy

Have granted one ultimate loan unto me

Three sisters

Three wives

Three judges of mercy

Have granted unlimited credit to me