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 of all the world. The Tsar's St. Petersburg is now the people's Leningrad.

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

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

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

DMITRY AND
our brave new land!

St. is booming!
A on the rise!

It's really friendly...

WOMAN:
If you don't spies!

FIRST
We behind our leaders.

MAN:
And stand in for bread!

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

Now is equal.
Professors the brooms.

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

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

SOLO
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.
It's a
That's of our history.

SOLO
say her royal grandmamma
Will pay a sum

To someone who can bring the back!

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

St. Petersburg was
royalty was in.
I called myself a
As I'd always been!
I with the royals
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 help us fly!
You and I, fiend,
go down 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 dear old 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. Those days are over: neighbor against neighbor. There's nothing to be afraid of anymore. shaking. There's a tea shop just steps from here. Let me...

you.

What's your

I can't lose 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:
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 something others to show the old lady. How much is that music box?

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

Two cans of beans,

MARKETEER:
Done!

Do you believe in tales, Vlad?

Once a time 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 need of steel!

Yes, it's -
A lot more usual!

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

Hopefully disaster ensue!

With it all goes smoothly

And with luck, we be shot!

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

be rich!

be rich!

be out!

be out!

And St. Petersburg
some more to talk about!

1:
I heard it a person

GROUP 1 AND 2:
I it from
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, AND ALL:
The Anastasia,

or dead...

DMITRY, AND ALL:
Who

AND VLAD:
Sshh!