"The swarthy girl" It is a famous song. I heard her in the after-war movie "V boi idut odni stariki" ("Only experienced pilots flies to the sortie") about the group of the Soviet fighter-pilots in 1944. This song was singed during an air combat. Especially a good effect was when a Soviet fighter assaulted a column of the German ground troops under the sound of this song. ******************************************************************************************** "The swarthy girl" (Translated by Andrey) Once at the summer, at the dawn, I looked in a neighboring garden and saw that A swarthy girl, a Moldavian girl, is gathering vine there. I am blushing, I am turning white and I want to say "Let's meet the summer dawns on the bank of a river!" Refrain: A green maple is bushy, its leafs are carved, I am in love and I am embarrassed before you. The maple is green, the maple is bushy, Very bushy, carved! And the swarthy girl, a Moldavian girl, answered to guy: "We are gathering our Moldavian partisan detachment. Now partisans left dear home early. A way to partisans in a thick forest waits you!" Repeat refrain. And the swarthy girl, a Moldavian girl, went in a forest on a small path And I decided that it is a pity that she didn't call me with her. I often thought about the swarthy girl, a Moldavian girl, at the nights And suddenly I met her in a partisan detachment! Repeat refrain. 1940 (was singed only in 1944 and later) ******************************************************************************************** The Russian version (translit): "Smuglianka" Kak-to letom, na rassvete, zaglianul v sosednii sad. Tam smuglianka-moldavanka sobiraet vinograd. Ia krasneiu, ia bledneiu, zakhotelos' vdrug skazat': "Stanem nad rekoiu zor'ki letnie vstrechat'!" Pripev: Raskudriavyi, klion zelionyi, list reznoi, Ia vliublennyi i smushchionnyi pred toboi. Klion zelionyi, da klion kudriavyi, Da raskudriavyi, reznoi! A smuglianka-moldavanka otvechala parniu v lad: "Partizanskii moldavanskii sobiraem my otriad. Nynche rano partizany dom pokinuli rodnoi. Zhdiot tebia doroga k partizanam v les gustoi!" Pripev. I smuglianka-moldavanka po tropinke v les ushla. V tom obidu ia uvidel, chto s soboi ne pozvala. O smuglianke-moldavanke chasto dumal po nocham. Vdrug svoiu smuglianku ia v otriade povstrechal! Pripev. 1940 (ispolnialas' s 1944)