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Those Were The Days
Mary Hopkin
Produced by Paul McCartney
Album : Post Card
Hits of the 60’s : Those Were
the Days/Goodbye
Russian Romance Song
Composed by Boris Fomin
English Lyrics Credited to GeneRaskin
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lyrics
Once upon a time there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours
And dreamed of all the great things we would do
Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la...
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I'd see you in the tavern
We'd smile at one another and we'd say
Just tonight I stood before the tavern
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass I saw a strange reflection
Was that lonely woman really me
Through the door there came familiar laughter
I saw your face and heard you call my name
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours
And dreamed of all the great things we would do
Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la...
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I'd see you in the tavern
We'd smile at one another and we'd say
Just tonight I stood before the tavern
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass I saw a strange reflection
Was that lonely woman really me
Through the door there came familiar laughter
I saw your face and heard you call my name
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same
This song, originally a Russian romance song by
the title of "By the long road" was composed by Boris Fomin on a poem
by Konstantin Podrevsky. Gene Raskin translated it into English and then Paul
McCartney rewrote it to have Mary Hopkins to sing making it world famous.
"Those
Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene
Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian
romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой
длинною", literally "By the long road"), composed by Boris
Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. It deals with reminiscence
upon youth and romantic idealism.
Mary
Hopkin's 1968 version of the song, produced by Paul
McCartney, became a number one hit on the UK
Singles Chart. The song also reached number two on the Billboard Hot
100, behind McCartney's own band The
Beatles' hit "Hey Jude".
In France the song was at no. 1 in the very first edition of the singles sales
chart launched by the Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque in
October 1968.
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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