| There is Moldavanka in Odessa, and Khitrovka in Moscow
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| Business young ladies in new clothes early in the morning,
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| But Peter is not a bastard either, I know that
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| And I love everyone in the world dear Ligovka
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| Ligovka, Ligovka, Ligovka - you are my parental home
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| Ligovka, Ligovka, Ligovka - we will still sing with you.
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| We will sing with you.
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| On Marat Street I was once happy
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| So many years have passed since then,
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| But all the guys on Marat Street remember,
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| That I had great authority.
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| In short pants, throwing books into the desks,
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| Like in catacombs, they climbed into piles of firewood
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| And in a new blue uniform, a tired district police officer
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| Caught us in the web of attics.
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| The boy is unintelligent, I'm head over heels in love
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| I could wait for her at the entrance for hours
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| And on winter nights, with cold hands
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| To sort out the chords of the steel strings.
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| We walked along Marat Street in a shaggy crowd
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| Bologna buttoned under the throat.
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| Everyone swore eternal friendship at the market on Kuznechny
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| Grandmothers in the potato row.
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| Candy-lambs I remember nights in kindergartens.
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| Pockets inside out, I was born in Petrograd.
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| Three-meter fences in dirty canary color | 
| The police officers chased us from the blue benches.
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| On Nevsky, as on a pier, fishing around the clock
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| Citizens, as if from an exhibition, are throwing fishing rods
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| Bologna raincoats crunch, foreign voyage deliveries,
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| That ship "Estonia" moored in the harbor.
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| A ticket to the cinema is blue, like a pass for a date,
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| And there Tanya's knees tremble like an aspen leaf.
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| The front doors pitied us with a heated window sill
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| And smart school dresses were unbuttoned.
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| We often remember the distant days,
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| When we rode on the heels of luck
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| They didn’t know the word “no”, they only wanted to hear “yes”
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| And they believed divination at Christmas time.
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| We often remember our old yards,
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| And in the yards the grass is pattering,
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| How the communal apartments were jealous and kind to us,
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| When we were cleaning them.
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| Chorus:
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| Well, was it really, well, was it really
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| Was it really?  | 
| So many years have passed since the days of those young
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| It powdered my head, and it stirred mine ...
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| Was it really that long ago?
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| We often remember our mothers cheerful laughter
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| And the pain of losses, and the first victories,
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| And in the telephone receiver through the blizzard and the crackle of interference | 
| Native distant voice: "Darling, do you hear, food ..."
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| Our life changed along with the width of the trousers
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| And coat hangers are back in fashion,
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| And if you look a little more carefully around,
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| That, my God, how everything has changed over the years.
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| Chorus:
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| Was it, well, was it
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| Was it really?  | 
| So many years have passed since the days of those young
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| It powdered my head, and it stirred mine ...
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| Was it really that long ago?
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| We are looking for a reflection in the bustle of the city,
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| But the streets sing other songs
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| And sometimes you don't want to go home again,
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| And on a white night over the Neva to wander all together ...
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| Chorus:
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| Was it, well, was it
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| Was it really?  | 
| So many years have passed since the days of those young
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| It powdered my head, and it stirred mine ...
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| Was it really that long ago?
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| Silence dabbled in the evening with a guitar
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| The twilight flickered with the lights of cigarettes.
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| It was in May, when spring toiled
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| Songs in my yard.
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| Girls bloomed, forgotten in winter,
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| Loved girls and poems were composed.
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| And more and more often mothers called girls home
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| This is how the girls grew up.
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| Good girl!  | 
| Oh, mother, what a clever woman she is!
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| Do not scold - she drove me home | 
| And I would go, yes, I forgot the name of the street,
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| Where did you give birth to your son.
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| I beat at the glass, like a ringed dove, with a wing,
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| Well, just a little more - and I will fly away into the sky.
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| That's the will, that's all.  | 
| Yes, under the open window
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| My daughter waves to me.
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| And do not return to the five-story house,
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| Into the old well of the Nevsky yard.
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| Everything that was left in it, of course, is important
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| Tomorrow you will not return yesterday, and therefore:
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| Ligovka, Ligovka, Ligovka, we will still sing with you. |