Luyện nghe bài hát A Rumor in St. Petersburg

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

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

They can it Leningrad but it will always be Petersburg. New name, same empty 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 skies are gray, the walls ears
And he who disappears!

AND ENSEMBLE:
Hail our new land!

St. is booming!
A on the rise!

It's very friendly...

SECOND
If you don't spies!

FIRST
We stand our leaders.

SECOND
And in line for bread!

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

Now is equal.
push the brooms.

DMITRY AND
Two total strangers
in two small rooms.
You a revolution
And here's the you pay!

Thank goodness for the

Спасибо слухи! (Spasibo za slukhi!)

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

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

MAN:
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
They say her 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
When was in.
I called a count
As I'd always 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,
go down In history.
We'll find a girl to the part
And teach her to say,
her up and take her to Paree!

Imagine the
Her old grandmama would pay!

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

No!!

It was a truck 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 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 for this painting!
Romanov, I swear!

BLACK #2:
Yusupov's pajamas,
Comrade, buy the pair!

BLACK #3:
I this 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 Romanov: I could never part it.

Two cans of beans,

BLACK
Done!

Do you in fairy tales, Vlad?

Once upon a I did

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

Yes, risky -
A lot more usual!

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

Hopefully disaster ensue!

With luck it all goes

And with luck, we be shot!

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

be rich!

be rich!

be out!

be out!

And St. Petersburg
Have more to talk about!

1:
I heard it a person

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

DMITRY, AND ALL:
Sshh!

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

A mystery.

The con in history!

DMITRY, AND ALL:
The Anastasia,

or dead...

DMITRY, AND ALL:
Who

AND VLAD:
Sshh!