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 ;-)

Edit: found a transcription. https://lyricstranslate.com/ru/veniamin-smehov-evgeniya-novogodnyaya-pesnya-lyrics

Corrected version:

HE:

Once again the frost in patterns

glistens on the pane

SHE:

As if to our window

BOTH:

music is flying

SHE:

Candles twinkled

with a ghostly flame

New Year's Eve

BOTH:

You and I together...

 

CHORUS (BOTH)

What has happened is done and past

covered over by wind and snow, (x2)

The New Year awaits us 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 anticipation

BOTH:

Tomorrow is again on the way.

 

SHE:

With kind eyes

look upon tomorrow

HE:

With bright dreams

enter in to the new year

 

CHORUS

What has happened is done and past

covered over by wind and snow, (x2)

The New Year awaits us 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