The Cranes (Журавли́) | Soviet War Song | Victory Day in Athens
Songs from the Great Patriotic War years
Victory Day 2024 | 09.05.2024
"Melodies of Memories" | Athens, Greece
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Ιγκόρ Τοϊκιν - Игорь Тойкин - Igor Toikin
Αλίονα Γκλάντκιχ - Алена Гладких - Alyona Gladkikh
Οι γερανοί - Журавли́ - The Cranes
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At times I think that the soldiers
Who never made it home from the bloodied fields
Are not sleeping in cold graves,
But turned into white cranes.
From the minute that they perished to this very day
They fly and they call onto us.
Isn't this why every time we look up to heavens
We get so soft and so sad?
An exhausted flock struggles through gray skies
Flying in the fog towards day's end
And as I see a small gap between the beautiful birds,
I think that perhaps this is the place for me.
A day will come when with a bunch of cranes
I will fly in the same blue-gray haze,
From under the heavens, like a bird calling out
To all of you who are left on the ground.
At times I think that the soldiers
Who never made it home from the bloodied fields
Are not sleeping in cold graves,
But turned into white cranes...