Luyện nghe bài hát A Rumor in St. Petersburg

VOICES ON
The flows,
A new blows,
And it will be spring...

We hear you, comrades, the Revolution hears you. Together we will a new Russia that will be the envy of all the world. The Tsar's St. Petersburg is now the people's Leningrad.

They can call it Leningrad but it will be Petersburg. New name, same empty stomachs.

They tell us are better.
Well, I say not!
Can't cook an promise
In an pot.

"A day is dawning.
almost at hand!"
The skies are gray, the walls have
And he who disappears!

DMITRY AND
Hail our new land!

St. is booming!
A on the rise!

It's really friendly...

WOMAN:
If you mind spies!

FIRST
We behind our leaders.

MAN:
And in line for bread!

We're good and loyal
And our color's red!

Now is equal.
push the brooms.

DMITRY AND
Two dozen strangers
Live in two rooms.
You hold a
And here's the you pay!

Thank for the gossip

Спасибо слухи! (Spasibo za slukhi!)

Thank for the gossip...
That us through the day!
Hey!

you heard?
There's a in St. Petersburg.
you heard?
What they're saying on the

MAN:
Although the did not survive,
One daughter may be alive—

The Anastasia!

But do not repeat!

a rumor,
A legend,
A mystery.
Something whispered in an
Or a crack.
a rumor
That's of our history.

WOMAN:
They say her royal
pay a royal sum

To someone who can the princess back!

They've closed another border. We should have gotten out of Russia while we could.

St. was lovely
When was in.
I called myself a
As though I'd been!
I hobnobbed with the
But then, a change of
The was dead,
The royals
And comrade, now stuck!

Vlad, been thinking about the Princess Anastasia.

Not you, too, Dmitry.

the rumor,
The legend,
The mystery!
It's the Princess
Who will us fly!
You and I, fiend,
Will go In history.
We'll find a girl to play the
And teach her to say,
Dress her up and her to Paree!

Imagine the
Her dear old would pay!

DMITRY AND
Who else pull it off but you and me!

No!!

It was a truck backfiring, comrade, that's all it was. Those days are neighbor against neighbor. There's nothing to be afraid of anymore. You're shaking. There's a tea shop just steps from here. Let me...

you.

What's your

I can't lose this job. They're not to come by. But thank you.

I'm every day.

MARKETEER #1:
A ruble for painting!
Romanov, I swear!

BLACK #2:
Count pajamas,
Comrade, buy the pair!

BLACK #3:
I found this in a
with an "A"-
It be Anastasia's!
Now what will pay?

We need something others to show the old lady. How much is music box?

BLACK
Ah, the music box! It's genuine Romanov: I could part with it.

Two of beans, comrade?

MARKETEER:
Done!

Do you believe in tales, Vlad?

Once a time I did

Were going to create a fairytale the world will believe.
Now, risky,
But not more usual.
We'll papers,
need tickets,
We'll nerves of steel!

Yes, risky -
A lot more usual!

We'll try to cross the
With our and our plot!

Hopefully disaster ensue!

With luck it all smoothly

And with luck, we be shot!

DMITRY AND
Who could pull it off But me and you?

be rich!

be rich!

be out!

be out!

And St. Petersburg
some more to talk about!

1:
I heard it a person

1 AND GROUP 2:
I it from
A who
me it was absolutely true!

DMITRY, AND ALL:
Sshh!

Have you
There's a in St. Petersburg!
you heard
Comrade, do you suppose?

A mystery.

The con in history!

DMITRY, AND ALL:
The Anastasia,

or dead...

DMITRY, AND ALL:
Who

DMITRY AND
Sshh!