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 hears you. Together we will forge 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 always be Petersburg. New name, empty stomachs.

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

"A day is dawning.
It's 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 really friendly...

SECOND
If you don't spies!

FIRST
We behind our leaders.

SECOND
And stand in for bread!

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

Now is equal.
Professors the brooms.

DMITRY AND
Two total strangers
Live in two rooms.
You hold a
And the price you pay!

Thank goodness for the

Спасибо слухи! (Spasibo za slukhi!)

Thank for the gossip...
That us through 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.
It's a
That's of our history.

WOMAN:
They say her royal
Will pay a sum

To who can bring the princess back!

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

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

Vlad, I've been thinking about the Anastasia.

Not you, too, Dmitry.

the rumor,
The legend,
The mystery!
It's the Anastasia
Who will us fly!
You and I, fiend,
go down In history.
We'll a girl to play the part
And her what to say,
Dress her up and 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 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 hurry?

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:
Yusupov's pajamas,
Comrade, buy the pair!

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

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

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

Two cans of beans,

BLACK
Done!

Do you in fairy tales, Vlad?

Once a time I did

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

Yes, risky -
A lot than 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!

AND VLAD:
Who else could it off But me and you?

be rich!

be rich!

be out!

be out!

And St. Petersburg
Have some to talk about!

1:
I heard it a person

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

DMITRY, VLAD AND
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

AND VLAD:
Sshh!