Leningrad

[00:02.83] Victor was born

[00:20.00] The spring of ′44

[00:23.94] And never saw

[00:26.47] His father anymore

[00:30.97] A child of sacrifice

[00:33.51] A child of war

[00:36.60] Another son who never had

[00:41.11] A father after Leningrad

[00:45.33] Went off to school

[00:47.02] And learned to serve his state

[00:51.24] Followed the rules

[00:54.34] And drank his vodka straight

[00:58.28] The only way to live

[01:01.66] Was drown the hate

[01:04.48] The Russian life was very sad

[01:08.98] And such was life in Leningrad

[01:13.76] I was born in '49

[01:18.84] A Cold War kid in McCarthy times

[01:22.50] Stop ′em at the 38th parallel

[01:25.59] Blast those yellow reds to hell

[01:29.24] Cold War kids were hard to kill

[01:32.63] Under their desks in an air raid drill

[01:36.01] Haven't they heard we won the war

[01:39.38] What do they keep on fighting for?

[01:43.33] Victor was sent

[01:48.11] To some red army town

[01:52.05] Served out his time

[01:54.87] Became a circus clown

[01:59.37] The greatest happiness

[02:02.19] He'd ever found

[02:05.29] Was making Russian children glad

[02:09.80] When children lived in Leningrad

[02:14.30] The children lived in Levittown

[02:19.37] Hid in the shelters underground

[02:22.46] Till the Soviets turned their ships around

[02:25.84] Tore the Cuban missiles down

[02:29.50] And in that bright October sun

[02:32.88] We knew our childhood days were done

[02:36.25] And I watched my friends go off to war

[02:39.64] What do they keep on fighting for?

[02:43.87] So my child and I came to this place

[02:52.31] To meet him, eye to eye and face to face

[02:59.63] He made my daughter laugh

[03:02.73] Then we embraced

[03:05.82] We never knew what friends we had

[03:10.33] Until we came to Leningrad