| My friend went to Magadan.
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| Take off your hat, take off your hat!
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| I left on my own, I left on my own
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| Not by stage, not by stage.
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| Not that a friend was unlucky,
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| Not to spite anyone,
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| Not for the rumor that, they say, an eccentric,
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| And just like that, but just like that.
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| Perhaps someone will say: - In vain!
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| How can you decide to lose everything?
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| After all, there are continuous camps,
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| And there are murderers in them, and there are murderers in them!
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| He will answer: - Do not believe the rumor.
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| There are no more of them than in Moscow.-
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| Then he packs his suitcase
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| Both in Magadan and Magadan.
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| Not that I'm beyond my years, -
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| I would jump from the train at night, -
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| But I'm not going to Magadan,
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| Forgetting habits, closing quotes.
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| -==-
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| I will sing to the sound of a string
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| About what he will see
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| About what I have not seen in my life -
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| About Magadan, about Magadan.
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| My friend went by himself
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| He's had enough, enough of him.
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| He will not be hit by a convoy,
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| He is willing, he is willing.
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| And God gave me a lot.
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| And maybe also in Magadan
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| Leave with a friend at the same time
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| And lie on the bottom, and lie on the bottom. |