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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: Russian Country Song
Remember a while back that video with the Russian "Country Music"? Here is the translation via Tommy Cox.
Hey the Russians have a Tommy Cox. http://youtube.com/watch?v=abvdmSNczng
Here's a video of and by the people who rode the submarines of the enemy we defeated in the war that no one acknowledges: The Cold War.
This was translated by the daughter of a friend of a friend
Her words
"This is a quick and dirty translation that took me a few hours- its not 100%, because I am in no way fluent - it was sung by Alexander Rozenbaum, a famous russian singer - From what I can figure out, the name of the submarine he is singing about is the Ara Bay.
Here's what I came up with:
Ara Bay
Good bye Mama
Permit me to report
I leave tomorrow morning on the ocean
Good bye mama
Don’t forget to put your photo of papa in my pocket
Excuse me mama
I must say goodbye in a hurry
I am ordered to serve my native country
The Commander of the dive – he doesn’t stand
In all the stories and poems
He spends the night in bed with his wife
The crew is in the stern saluting
Seagulls and cormorants over the waves
Who meet deep over our sphere of Earth, the Ara Bay
The nuclear submarine, our native home
Makes many extreme working conditions
The hatch is battened down over the deep on Ara Bay
Good bye Mama
Permit me to report
In the wardrobe is a suit for my shoulders
When I automatically return
I will hardly be in your life because I want to be married.
Later in the briny Deep
I stand watch in combat
Our business is to live alone on Ara Bay
Doctor, Mama, a uniform hero stands dead in formation
By the way, mama, I am full to the gills (sick of) the Ara Bay
Good bye Mama
Permit me to report
In my hands is my 3 month salary
Hardly enough to give to you in order for 3 to live
But to Easter brings neatly
Eggs painted by the boatswain under water
The Combat alarm gives a retreat
Smoke your Marlboroughs, cowboy on the Ara Bay
Nikolai, our holy saint
Protect all the sea’s future
We are with you and we are always with you on the Ara Bay"
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Master and Commander
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Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Russian Country Song
Country??
Not one mention of beer, pickups, hunting dogs, jukebox.
Times have changed. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2561
Location: Rapid City, SD | Subject: RE: Russian Country Song
I love that song, and I love the vocalist - but - in my research for the book project I'm working on, it seems that Russia declared war on Japan just a few days before VJ Day. And, I seem to remember that they declared war on Germany just a few days before VE Day. Am I right? If I'm not, I'm sure someone here will straighten me out.
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Russian Country Song
Paul, what can I say? lol It sounded like country in Russian. You know the Russians, their a little left of center anyway. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1431
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It's true the Russians declared war on the Japanese several days before the Japanese surrendered and grabbed the northern Japanese island of Sakalland(SP?) but Russia was invaded by Germany in 1941 and the war on the Eastern Front (Russia) raged until the German surrender in 1945. The Russian people suffeered enormously during that time , but we must not forget that the Russian goverment and military didn't show any signs of contrition when the joined the Nazis in the invasion of Polland at the start of WWII in 1939. It was nothing more than an illegal invasion of Polland without any justification of any kind. It was the Commie government's oppurtunity to spread it's tenticles and choke off freedom. |
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Russian Country Song
