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 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.

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

"A day is dawning.
It's at hand!"
The skies are gray, the have ears
And he who disappears!

AND ENSEMBLE:
our brave 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 stand in for bread!

We're good and comrades
And our fav'rite red!

Now is equal.
push the brooms.

DMITRY AND
Two dozen total
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...
gets us through the day!
Hey!

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

MAN:
Although the did not survive,
One may be still 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.

SOLO
They say her royal
pay a royal 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 the royals
But then, a change of
The was dead,
The fled
And comrade, now stuck!

Vlad, been thinking about the Princess Anastasia.

Not you, too, Dmitry.

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

Imagine the
Her dear old grandmama pay!

AND VLAD:
Who else could it off but you and me!

No!!

It was a truck backfiring, comrade, that's all it was. Those days are over: 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 hurry?

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

I'm here day.

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

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

MARKETEER #3:
I found in a palace
with an "A"-
It be Anastasia's!
Now what someone pay?

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

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

Two cans of beans,

MARKETEER:
Done!

Do you believe in fairy tales,

Once upon a I did

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

Yes, risky -
A lot more usual!

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

Hopefully disaster ensue!

With luck it all smoothly

And luck, we won't be shot!

DMITRY AND
Who else could pull it off But me and

be rich!

be rich!

be out!

be out!

And St. Petersburg
Have some more to about!

1:
I heard it from a

1 AND GROUP 2:
I heard it
A who
me it was absolutely 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, AND ALL:
Who

DMITRY AND
Sshh!