“Evening in the roadstead”

It is sailor’s famous song of WWII time.

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“Evening in the roadstead”

(Translated by Andrey)

Let’s sing, friends, we shall go in a campaign tomorrow
During the fog, which will be before the dawn.
Let’s sing more merry, let our gray-haired battle-tried captain 
Will join us in the singing.

Refrain:
Good bye, dear city,
We shall go in a sea tomorrow.
And it will be early time of a day
When a known pale blue kerchief
Will appear for a moment behind the stern.

And evening is such pretty again
That it is impossible to not sing songs.
Let’s sing, friends, more harmoniously
About intimate friendship, about a navy service.

Repeat refrain.

It became silent on the large roadstead,
A fog enveloped a sea.
And a wave is kissing the dear coast,
And only a bayan [1] is playing quietly:

Repeat refrain.

the spring of 1942


Remarks of Andrey:
[1] bayan is a type of an accordion

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The Russian version (translit):

"Vecher na reide"

Spoiomte, druz'ia, ved' zavtra v pokhod
Uidiom v predrassvetnyi tuman,
Spoem veselei, pust' nam podpoiot
Sedoi boevoi kapitan.

Pripev:
Proshchai, liubimyi gorod,
Ukhodim zavtra v more.
I rannei poroi
Mel'kniot za kormoi
Znakomyi platok goluboi.

A vecher opiat' khoroshii takoi,
Chto pesen ne pet' nam nel'zia.
O druzhbe bol'shoi, o sluzhbe morskoi
Podtianem druzhnee, druz'ia.

Pripev.

Na reide bol'shom legla tishina,
A more okutal tuman.
I bereg rodnoi tseluet volna,
I tikho donosit baian:

Pripev.

vesna 1942