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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Каким ты был (The Way You...)

Original song was composed by Isak Dunaevsky and is from the Russian color movie "The cosaks from Kuban" (1949), (a Stalin favorit movie about love story in Cuban and a good life in the kolhozs after the war) and was perfomed by Marina Ladinina.

This version was perfomed first time by Sofia Rotaru (София Ротару) for a television New Year show "The most important old songs" (Старые песни о главном) in 2005, the hiperlink is for the 2007 show, for a great song  performed also by Sofia Rotaru.


Каким ты был

Каким ты был, таким остался,
Орёл степной, казак лихой!...
Зачем, зачем ты снова повстречался,
Зачем нарушил мой покой?

Зачем опять в своих утратах
Меня ты хочешь обвинить?
В одном, в одном я только виновата:
Что нету сил тебя забыть.
The Way You Once Were

The way you once were, so you stayed,
Steppe eagle, dashing cossack!...
Why, oh why have you again found me,
Why have you upset my peaceful life?

Why have you again begun
To blame me in your loses?
Of only one, just one thing am I guilty:
Of being unable to forget you.