A New Year song

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We never celebrated 'the new year' as anything special at home (that would be the Scots and their Hogmanay...) but the Soviet Union did, complete with decorated trees, coloured lights, snow, and all the otherwise-Christmas trappings... presumably a nice non-religious state-sponsored alternative :-p

And so here is a charming "New Year's Song" performed in the TV studio by Veniamin Smekhov and Evgenia Simonova, from a 1980s broadcast...

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(I gather it was her husband and father-in-law who were responsible for the lyrics and melody respectively :-)


I couldn't find any transcript of this particular song online, but this is the best I can do from what I can make out of the lyrics -- beautifully enunciated by both singers ;-)

HE:	Once again the frost in patterns
	glistens on the pane
SHE:	As if to our window
BOTH:	music flew
SHE:	?To a frozen encounter?
	with an ?illusory? window
	A New Year's Eve
BOTH:	You and I together...
CHORUS (BOTH)	That which was, that which has been
	by the wind is powdered with snow, (x2)
	We await the new year for tomorrow.
	The last day of the old year†
	the New Year
	everything floats in festive light (x2)
	tomorrow comes anew.
SHE:	Tomorrow -- that means gladness
HE:	Tomorrow -- that means grief
SHE:	Tomorrow is waiting
BOTH:	Tomorrow is again on the way.
SHE:	With kind eyes
	Tomorrow looks upon you
HE:	With bright dreams
	New Year, enter in!
CHORUS	That which was, that which has been
	by the wind is powdered with snow, (x2)
	We await the new year for tomorrow.
	The last day of the old year
	the New Year
	everything floats in festive light (x2)
	tomorrow comes anew.
--INSTRUMENTAL--
BOTH:	The last day of the old year
	the New Year
	everything floats in festive light (x2)
	tomorrow comes anew.

† "Shchedriy Vecher": "Generous Evening", the name given to December 31st