| Russia floats in the Black Sea
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| Along the Soviet shores
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| The waves roll big
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| From its steel sides.
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| And from the Soviet fields
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| Hyperborean blowing,
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| Raising a monstrous show off.
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| Sokhanevich gets up
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| Takes the boat in hand
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| And he risks his life.
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| Like the biblical prophet Jonah,
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| Oleg dived under the ship,
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| Sokhanevich in this order
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| He began his valiant escape.
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| Nine days and nights
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| He was nothing at all
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| And there are no informers around.
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| On salt water
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| Restricted in food
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| Like a sinner at the Last Judgment.
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| The Turkish shore comes out
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| Sokhanevich is young.
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| The Turks do not believe him at all,
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| They surround him with a crowd.
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| And they grab him
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| And they torture him
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| “Answer,” they say, “what of what?
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| Don't you bash a buzuk?
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| Are you our enemy or friend?
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| And where did you suddenly fall from?"
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| “Yes, I sailed here on the waters
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| Like a Persian princess.
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| From the Turkish people
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| All I need is freedom.
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| I ran from captivity
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| I wanted freedom
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| I swam on the surface of the waters.
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| I am not a bash, not a buzuk,
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| I am not an enemy and not a friend,
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| And I ask you not to make trouble for me.”
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| The Turks checked the boat
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| Surprised at the oars.
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| And the hero was seduced
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| To draw him into Islam.
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| "If you," they say,
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| Ten days in a row
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| Could neither drink, nor eat, nor sleep,
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| That's Mohammed for you
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| In a thousand years
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| It will give something that it is better not to take.”
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| "Let go, Turks, the boat,
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| Don't marvel at the oars.
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| Let's drink vodka together
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| Only freedom is our Islam.
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| There is one thing in our life
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| Only freedom wine
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| And it is only one thing that is sweet to me,
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| I love freedom.
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| That's it.
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| And please don't force me."
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| Near the Statue of Liberty
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| Now live Oleg.
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| enlightened peoples,
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| we are his friends forever.
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| Only like him
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| From the beginning of time
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| Our land is admired!
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| He glorified himself
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| Both me and you
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| Boldly jumping overboard the ship! |