| Well, here we met again, you and I,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| And I'm not the same anymore, and you're completely gray-haired,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| But again, like many years ago,
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| I see your cheerful look,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| You have seen everything in this life,
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| Burned in the fire, lost comrades,
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| The road was not easy
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| Now stony, then cool,
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| But you never spared your heart!
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| In battle and at the feast, we are both hot,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| You don't grumble at me in the heat,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| Like, again I'm wearing the wrong thing,
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| I don’t walk like that, I don’t look like that,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| That's not the point - that clothes or not that,
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| There was 6 hope, and there was 6 a pure soul.
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| Do you remember what you were,
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| How I despised and how I loved
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| How recklessly you sometimes lived!
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| My father, like you, went through the war,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| He loved his country more than his whole life,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| I was told - he was brave,
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| And how he danced, how he sang,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| That old wound lay in wait for him -
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| He's gone, that's how things are.
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| He ordered me to live long
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| Laugh, sing and don't grieve,
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| Be friends with you, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| Today we will gather our beloved friends,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich!
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| Today we will sing all the best songs,
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| Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich! |