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 forge a new Russia 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 always be Petersburg. New name, same stomachs.

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

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

AND ENSEMBLE:
Hail our new land!

St. is booming!
A on the rise!

It's really friendly...

SECOND
If you don't spies!

FIRST
We stand our leaders.

MAN:
And stand in 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 the price you pay!

Thank for the gossip

Спасибо слухи! (Spasibo za slukhi!)

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

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

SOLO
Although the did not survive,
One daughter may be still

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.

SOLO
say her royal grandmamma
Will pay a sum

To who can bring the princess back!

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

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

Vlad, I've been thinking 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,
go down In history.
We'll find a girl to the part
And her what to say,
Dress her up and her to Paree!

Imagine the
Her old grandmama would pay!

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

No!!

It was a backfiring, comrade, that's all it was. Those days are over: 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 here day.

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

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

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

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

MARKETEER:
Ah, the music box! It's genuine I could never part with it.

Two of beans, comrade?

BLACK
Done!

Do you believe in fairy tales,

Once a time I did

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

Yes, risky -
A lot more usual!

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

Hopefully won't ensue!

With luck it all goes

And luck, we won't be shot!

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

be rich!

be rich!

be out!

be out!

And St. will
some more to talk about!

1:
I heard it a person

1 AND GROUP 2:
I heard it
A who
Assured me it was true!

DMITRY, VLAD AND
Sshh!

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

A mystery.

The con in history!

DMITRY, AND ALL:
The Anastasia,

or dead...

DMITRY, VLAD AND
Who

AND VLAD:
Sshh!