格利克的曲调来自波克拉斯兄弟和创作的战前苏联歌曲。原题《捷列克哥萨克进行曲》（Терская походная），后来更名为《哥萨克之歌》，后来又以第一行的歌词“那些不是云，而是雷雨云”（“То не тучи - грозовые облака”）为标题。原歌词由阿列克谢·苏尔科夫创作。像很多苏联歌曲一样，原曲本身有一段历史。该曲创作于1936年秋天，在1937年苏联关于1936年红军军事演习的纪录片《劳动人民之子》中首次演出。影片的标题暗指红军的效忠誓言：“我，劳动人民的儿子……“（“Я, сын трудового народа...”）而歌曲标题指涉的是红军骑兵第6师，又称“库班-捷列克琼哈尔哥萨克骑兵团，命名自布琼尼”。
Zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg,
Khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg.
Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho,
S'vet a poyk ton undzer trot: mir zaynen do!
Fun grinem palmenland biz vaysn land fun shney,
Mir kumen on mit undzer payn, mit undzer vey,
Un vu gefaln s'iz a shprits fun undzer blut,
Shprotsn vet dort undzer gvure, undzer mut!
S'vet di morgnzun bagildn undz dem haynt,
Un der nekhtn vet farshvindn mit dem faynt,
Nor oyb farzamen vet di zun in dem kayor –
Vi a parol zol geyn dos lid fun dor tsu dor.
Dos lid geshribn iz mit blut, un nit mit blay,
S'iz nit keyn lidl fun a foygl oyf der fray,
Dos hot a folk tsvishn falndike vent
Dos lid gezungen mit naganes in di hent.
To zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg,
Khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg.
Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho –
S'vet a poyk ton undzer trot: mir zaynen do!
英语
Never say that you're going your last way
Although the skies filled with lead cover blue days
Our promised hour will soon come
Our marching steps ring out: 'We are here!'
From green lands of palm to lands with white snow
We come with our pain and our woes
And from where a spurt of our blood falls
Will sprout our strength and our courage
Today the morning sun will accompany us
And the night will fade away with the enemy
But if the sun waits to rise
Like a password this song will go from generation to generation
This song is written with blood and not with [pencil] lead
It's not a tune sung by birds in the wild
This song was sung by people amidst collapsing walls
Sung with pistols[4] in their hands
So never say that you're going your last way
Although the skies filled with lead cover blue days
Our promised hour will soon come
Our marching steps ring out: 'We are here'!
