| We went down to the south.
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| Horse, my devoted friend,
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| He took me out of blizzards and fires.
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| And gathered all to know
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| In the Orthodox army,
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| To hold back the onslaught of the commissars.
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| Island of Crimea, island of Crimea
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| Quietly spreading smoke
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| And the cannonade is carried away
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| We will stay here.
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| We will stay with him.
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| God's reward awaits us in heaven.
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| We broke through here
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| For hopes to come true
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| To save our people from being shot.
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| And loyalty to Russia
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| We swore here.
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| Where the Kremlin and the Neva there are no whites.
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| Island of Crimea, island of Crimea,
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| I will die young.
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| The bullet will hit the temple with a copper gong
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| There is nowhere else to swim.
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| Oh how I want to live
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| We are here in Russia, not in Hong Kong!
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| We met by the river
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| And crossed bayonets,
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| And in the blood hoods, saber dance.
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| Someone will be alone
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| In Russia, Mr.
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| Bolshevik, nobleman or foreigner.
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| Island of Crimea, island of Crimea,
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| In the early morning gray
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| Hundred steppe cuts gait.
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| We would not give up the night,
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| We would have to stand for a day,
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| In order not to live with the wild in Singapore.
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| Our ark set sail,
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| The run starts
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| Parting for a century or wandering.
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| Who did not have time to board,
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| Maybe the best destiny -
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| A bullet in the forehead than execution or exile.
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| Island of Crimea, island of Crimea,
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| How I love you!
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| Like Russia from edge to edge.
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| Only Don and Kuban,
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| Not Hong Kong, not Taiwan
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| And the Russians have a fatal fate. |