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 that will be the envy of all the world. The Tsar's St. Petersburg is now the Leningrad.

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

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

"A day is dawning.
almost at hand!"
The are gray, the walls have ears
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 stand our leaders.

SECOND
And stand in for bread!

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

Now is equal.
Professors the brooms.

AND ALL:
Two total strangers
Live in two rooms.
You a revolution
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.
Have you
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 in an alleyway
Or a crack.
It's a
part of our history.

SOLO
They say her grandmamma
pay a royal sum

To someone who can 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 though I'd been!
I hobnobbed the royals
But then, a of luck—
The was dead,
The fled
And comrade, now stuck!

Vlad, I've been about the Princess Anastasia.

Not you, too, Dmitry.

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

Imagine the
Her old grandmama would pay!

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

No!!

It was a truck backfiring, comrade, that's all it was. 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 lose this job. They're not easy to come by. But thank you.

I'm every day.

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

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

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

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

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

Two of beans, comrade?

BLACK
Done!

Do you believe in fairy tales,

Once a time I did

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

Yes, it's -
A lot than usual!

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

Hopefully disaster ensue!

With it all goes smoothly

And luck, we won't be shot!

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

be rich!

be rich!

be out!

be out!

And St. will
Have some to talk about!

1:
I it from a person

GROUP 1 AND 2:
I heard it
A who
Assured me it was 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, VLAD AND
The Anastasia,

or dead...

DMITRY, AND ALL:
Who

AND VLAD:
Sshh!