| Oh, what white snow, oh what white snow outside the window!
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| How many towers are there in this cursed kingdom of snows?
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| The chilly camp, fluffed up, seemed to fall asleep in a white dream.
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| And as if he is spinning in a vicious circle of glass.
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| And if such luck happens to me suddenly,
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| And friends will say: "Yes, he has already been released," -
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| I'll go south, I'll go south, of course,
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| I was once in the south, once I was born in the south.
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| I will go down to the platform, forgotten by my town,
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| And I'll take off my hat, I'll take off my crumpled hat,
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| Say hello to someone, someone who is unfamiliar,
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| With whom I have never walked, with whom I have never walked through the stage.
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| I want to hold simple grapes on my palms,
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| I want to caress my old mother on my chest.
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| I will be so glad there, I will be glad of everything, very glad,
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| And I will not draw either the ace or the queen of spades.
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| And the stages go to the east, everyone goes to the east,
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| And one by one all similar faces flash by.
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| The mainland is so far from the land of camps, so far,
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| Yes, the Sea of Okhotsk smokes with lead fog.
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| I don't know why I fell in love with Magadan forever
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| And in Nagaevskaya Bay, ice-covered barges.
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| So why do I sometimes take out a suitcase from under the bunk?
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| I became fussy before the time and, probably, older.
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| I don't want to talk to anyone in the barracks about anything,
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| Over the years, we have become impossibly silent here.
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| But at night I get up and more and more often I go to smoke,
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| And with my back I sharply feel the pain of someone's inquisitive looks.
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| And do not hide from yourself, and do not hide this sticky fright,
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| That everything is tied forever in a white damn circle ...
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| But I need to go south, I really need it, I need to go south,
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| I want to die, I only want to die in the south.
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| Ah, what white snow outside the window ... |