| When we left our native land
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| And silently went to the east,
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| Above the quiet Don, under the old maple
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| Your handkerchief loomed for a long time.
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| Above the quiet Don, under the old maple
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| Your handkerchief loomed for a long time.
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| I did not hear your words, my love,
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| But I knew that you would wait for me in anguish.
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| Not a crimson leaf, but our wounds
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| They burned on the river sand.
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| Not a crimson leaf, but our wounds
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| They burned on the river sand.
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| The steppe, riddled with shells, groaned,
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| There was black smoke over Stalingrad.
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| And for a long, long time by the formidable Volga
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| I dreamed about Don and you above him.
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| And for a long, long time by the formidable Volga
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| I dreamed about Don and you above him.
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| February came through storms and snowstorms,
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| Like a holiday won in battle
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| And here we are again at the walls of Rostov,
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| In the native dear land.
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| And here we are again at the walls of Rostov,
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| In the native dear land.
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| So hello, my gray-haired love!
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| Let the snow spin and fall
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| On the banks of the Don, on the branches of the maple,
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| On your weeping handkerchief.
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| On the banks of the Don, on the branches of the maple,
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| On your weeping handkerchief.
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| Again we leave our native land,
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| Not to the East, we are going to the West.
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| To the Dnieper steeps,
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| To loose sands,
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| Now our home is on the Dnieper.
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| To the Dnieper steeps,
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| To loose sands,
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| Now our home is on the Dnieper. |