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| -Land of the Free |
| Mary Hopkin Those were the days lyrics |
| 2022-08-07 |
Wow. Reading up on the song: This song, the original, was written back in 1924 in Soviet Russia. It was covered by many Russian/Soviet female singers through the years. It was given new lyrics and recorded by Mary Hopkin in the 1970s. The Wikipedia entry calls it a romance. I call it a love lament. The original lyrics are quite captivating. Lyrics of the original: We rode on a troika with bells, And lights flickered in the distance. Oh, when I would now follow you, I would dispel my soul from longing! Chorus: On a long road, but on a moonlit night, Yes, with that song that flies into the distance, ringing, Yes, with an old one, but with a seven-string, Which torments me so much at night. Yes, it turns out, we sang for free. Night after night they burned in vain. If we have done away with the old, So these nights have departed! Chorus. To a different distance - in new ways - We are destined to go by fate! We rode on a troika with bells, Yes, now we drove a long time ago. Chorus. Nobody needs me now If my sick life breaks, you take me to bury. Chorus. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 pertinent to our current times... |
| Posted by: 746 2022-08-07 14:55 |
| #2 I was westernized, which drives the Rus crazy. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-07 07:18 |
| #1 The music sounds pretty Russian, to me. What have you done, Badanov? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2022-08-07 07:12 |