Small Light: my favourite wartime Soviet song

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Guys, my favourite wartime Soviet tune is "Small Light".

I have just found a modern samba version sung at the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow in 2007 by Russian girl band "Fabrika". I just love it! (And maybe Sati the Brunette ) Pity they change the last line of the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI676rNi-PU

You can hear the original here:

http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/ogonek.mp3


"Small light"

A girl saw off a soldier
Who had to go in a frontline position.
She said him goodbye
On the footsteps of a porch at the dark night.
And all the time when her fellow could see
Her house through a fog
A small light shined
In girl's window.

Guy was met by glorious
Front collective.
Comrades were everywhere,
Friends were everywhere.
But he couldn't forget
The known street:
Where are you, my beloved girl?
Where are you, my small light?

And the girl sent a message from far away
To the fellow.
She wrote that her love
Will never die,
That everything what they decided earlier to do
Will be fulfilled, -
The golden small light
Will not go out. [1]

And it became gaily
At heart of the soldier
As a result of so a good
Letter from her.
And fellow fights more hardly
The hateful enemy
For the Soviet Motherland,
For the dear small light.

For the Soviet Motherland,
For the dear small light.

1943

Remarks of Andrey:
[1] it is about "light of love" here

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The Russian version (translit):

"Ogoniok"

Na pozitsiiu devushka
Provozhala boitsa.
Tiomnoi noch'iu prostilasia
Na stupen'kakh kryl'tsa.
I poka za tumanami
Videt' mog pareniok,
Na okoshke na devich'em
Vsio gorel ogoniok.

Parnia vstretila slavnaia
Frontovaia sem'ia,
Vsiudu byli tovarishchi,
Vsiudu byli druz'ia.
No znakomuiu ulitsu
Pozabyt' on ne mog:
Gde zh ty, devushka milaia?
Gde zh ty, moi ogoniok?

I podruga dalekaia
Parniu vestochku shliot,
Chto liubov' eio devich'ia
Nikogda ne umret;
Vse, chto bylo zadumano,
V svoi ispolnitsia srok,-
Ne pogasnet bez vremeni
Zolotoi ogoniok.

I stanovitsia radostno
Na dushe u boitsa
Ot takogo khoroshego
Ot eio pis'metsa.
I vraga nenavistnogo
Krepche b'iot parenek
Za Sovetskuiu Rodinu,
Za rodnoi ogoniok.

Za Sovetskuiu Rodinu,
Za rodnoi ogoniok.

[Paul D]

Sung by Gorgeous Russian girls it get's my vote for Eurovision

[3aStalina]

good choice! this is my favorite, "Let's have a smoke" or "Давай Закурим". here it is sung by its original performer, albeit in her later years,

Клавдия Шульженко - Давай закурим - YouTube