Like my own mother
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saw off,
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Here is all my relatives
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Ran up:
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Here all my relatives came running.
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“Oh, where are you, boy, oh, where are you?
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You wouldn't go, Vanyok, to the soldiers.
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You wouldn't go, Vanyok, to the soldiers.
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There are bayonets and tea in the Red Army.
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The Bolsheviks will manage without you.
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The Bolsheviks will manage without you.
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Involuntarily, are you going, or from hunting?
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Vanya, Vanya, you will disappear for nothing.
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Vanya, Vanya, you will disappear for nothing.
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Mother, suffering for you, turned gray.
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Avon in the field and in the hut, how much work!
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Avon in the field and in the hut, how much work!
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There are no previous oppressions at all.
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It would be better if you married, light, Arina.
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It would be better if you married, light, Arina.
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I would live with a young wife, I would not be lazy!"
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Here I bowed to my mother.
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Here I bowed to my mother.
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He bowed to all relatives at the threshold:
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“Don’t whine for me, for God’s sake!
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Don't whine for me, for God's sake!
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Be everyone like you, rotosey,
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What would be left of Moscow, of Russia?
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What would be left of Moscow, of Russia?
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Everything would go in the old way, for a while,
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They would take everything back from us - land, freedom.
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They would take everything back from us - land, freedom. |