New Year's duet - translated

And of course I ended up writing a singable rhymed version of the New Year's duet, which was very much harder than one would expect due to the constraints of extremely short lines that have to rhyme with each other -- in several places I had to resort to reversing the order of two lines in order to fit them in, so while the meaning of the couplet as a whole is translated, the line being sung may not represent the content of the corresponding Russian at that point...

( Fudged scansion )

I'm quite pleased with the chorus, though :-)

Original song and literal translation

New Year’s Song

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