This city is strange, this city is not easy.
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Life is in full swing here.
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Here everything is unusual, here everything is upside down,
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This city is a crazy house.
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All faces are familiar, but each
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Playing a different role
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In order to understand at least something in this,
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You need to know the secret password.
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I invite you to wander in the evening
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Among squares, houses and walls.
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Better to see once than hear a hundred times.
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Here it is - county town N.
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Look - here is Lady Macbeth with a dagger in her hands
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Staggering tumbled into a tavern,
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Slaughtering pediatrician Freud
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In another of the drunken fights.
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King Arthur with friends at the round table
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They diligently knock on dominoes,
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And daddy Beethoven plays his blues
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On an old broken background.
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He is gray and poor, like a church mouse -
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He could not avoid change.
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And once he was the king of rock and roll
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county town N.
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Romeo is smoking a cigar at the bar
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I finished my aperitif.
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He will take Juliet to the cinema
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For a new fashionable detective.
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There is a flask in his pocket,
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But not with poison - with cognac,
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And after seeing your girlfriend home
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He will hurry to the brothel,
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Run by the Marquis de Sade, |
Zen worshiper.
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He is the most gallant gentleman
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county town N.
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Here is Gogol, dressed as Pushkin,
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Hurry, as always, to the casino.
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But he cannot pass through the square -
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Julius Caesar makes movies there.
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He rushes among the cameras,
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Clutching a megaphone in your hands,
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And superstars Pierre and Marie Curie
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Starring in leading roles.
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But now the command "Motor!"
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And operator Roden
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Starts filming scene number seven
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On the main square of the city N
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The Pope runs a gambling house
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In the evenings, all the high society is here.
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And every time before starting the game,
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He reads the Old Testament aloud.
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"Madame! |
Monsieur! |
Your bets!" shouts the croupier,
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Dressed in a black coat.
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"On red - twenty thousand!" -
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Ivan the Fool answers.
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He is a famous counterfeiter
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His accomplice is Sophia Loren.
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They are the bosses of the underworld
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county town N.
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The hairy fellow sells sheep,
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For this part, he is special,
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He is the main partner of a commercial firm
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"Jesus Christ and the Father".
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His business flourishes
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And that's why the cruel spleen
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Owns the head of competitors
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"Ivan the Terrible and the Son".
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What the hell is going on in the stock market |
But for price stability
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Followed by Paul McCartney - financial genius
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county town N.
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Rodion Romanych is standing on the corner,
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Reminds me of Notre Dame.
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He sharpens axes, he sharpens a razor,
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He is hungry for old ladies.
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He is watching the fight with interest -
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This is our youth hero
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Again started a battle with fools,
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But he fights with himself.
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George Sand comes up to him, dressed in a tuxedo,
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And whispers: "I am Chopin!"
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She's being watched by Oscar Wilde, chief of the vice police.
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county town N.
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Charlie Parker says to Beatrice:
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“Don’t you want to dance?
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I know a great place -
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It's right here, close at hand."
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Entering the disco, they hear
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as head disc jockey
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He shouts: “And yet she is spinning!”
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You are right, this is Galileo.
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He amiably waves his hand to those who have entered
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And he puts on the disc "Steely Dan".
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Oh yes, this is the most fashionable group
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county town N.
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Leo Tolstoy dug a hole, climbed into it
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And he flat out refused to get out.
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He scolds everyone from there with such words,
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It's embarrassing to repeat them.
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Napoleon sells orders from the tray,
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Medals and a faded banner.
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Van Gogh whines: “No, you are not an emperor, |
I know you are just cognac!
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But I will take all the goods, though only by weight" -
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And he gets the steelyard.
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At this time, the moon is like a rusty basin,
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Rises over the city N.
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Diogenes lights his red lantern
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Already on the panel
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Florence Nightingale and Marilyn Monroe
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Dressed up as if for a parade.
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Casanova and Pele landed at Gioconda:
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“Madam, resolve our dispute:
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What is sm |