met by chance at a party in a Russian company of Javier, a teacher of Russian language in private university, Xavier himself Costa Rican, is married to a Russian, at home with his wife and children speaks only in Russian, but little emphasis still remains. Javier told me that there is a problem: I would like to revive the educational process, to sing songs in Russian students. Said that previously had one student who was Mom took away from Russia in the age of seven, he is well in Russian says, and knows the songs, and is not shy, but what he sings, Javier seemed very strange: "More and more about some flying fish." I ask: "And who in the original is the song he sang?»
«Yes," - says Xavier, - "the guy said that this kind of singing Peha, but I have something else from the Soviet Union remember what repertoire she sang Edita, it is definitely not about what fish did not sing, something he was confused. "And he continues to tell: -" One song it accurately from the repertoire of Edith Piekha sings, do you remember this? "and sang:
Somewhere there is a quiet town like a dream.
Dust stringy breast-listed.
in the slow river water, as glass.
Somewhere there is a city in which the heat.
our distant childhood passed there.
Then breath, continued: - "But, my helluva lot of smart students began to sing along in English:
Once there were green fields kissed by the Sun,
Once there were valleys, where rivers used to run,
Once there were blue sky with white clouds high above,
Once there were part of an everlasting love.
We were the loves who strolled thro 'green fields ...
And then laughed when the boy told them that Russian song. "(By Terry Gilkyson, Rich Dehr, Frank Miller, 1956.)
I laughed over an inspired performance, and he kept going all: what kind of fish could sing kid? I can not imagine!
I asked the hostess parties:
- Do you have a record Piekha?
landlady thought for a moment and said: - "Well, my grandmother Edith - no, but vnuchká Stas - there is." And then he put disk_ and already the sound of the first verse, Javier brightened and said: - "Here's this song about a flying fish!»
Well, I listen to:
City in the glow of the white-domed
new day ... a veil.
All my dreams confused,
Only one in the glass, one
Sky changeable
I would far
Soon unnoticed
Wave your hand
in the sky over the city in a cloud of melting
in the sky over the city
My plane flies
in the sky over the city
And in the city you
me wait ....
I listened, but nothing about what fish have not heard anything, come to Javier and ask: - "Javier, But where there, the fish? "and he says: -" Well, how about it, here is the chorus "- and sings along:
« In skies above the city
Vobla CHINA
My plane flies ...
in the sky over the city
And in rain ...
I flew from laughing along with the plane! Later, whenever caught Stas Piekha drive, I always heard Vobla China, and so Nothing I do with them but could not.
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