I recorded a jazz cover of this Soviet classic.
Dark is the Night (Тёмная ночь, lit. Dark Night) is a famous Russian song associated with the Great Patriotic War. It was originally performed by Mark Bernes in the 1943 war film Two Soldiers. The song was composed by Nikita Bogoslovsky (1913-2004), with lyrics by Vladimir Agatov specially for the film Two Soldiers.
a link for iOS users:
https://shemzee.bandcamp.com/track/mark-bernes-cover
Translation by University of Pittsburgh Department of Slavic Languages
Dark night, only bullets are whistling in the steppe,
Only the wind is wailing through the telephone wires, stars are faintly flickering...
In the dark night, my love, I know you are not sleeping,
And, near a child's crib, you secretly wipe away a tear.
How I love the depths of your gentle eyes,
How I long to press my lips to them!
This dark night separates us, my love,
And the dark, troubled steppe has come to lie between us.
I have faith in you, in you, my sweetheart.
That faith has shielded me from bullets in this dark night...
I am glad, I am calm in deadly battle:
I know you will meet me with love, no matter what happens.
Death is not terrible, we've met with it more than once in the steppe...
And here it looms over me once again,
You await my return, sitting sleepless near a cradle,
And so I know that nothing will happen to me!
original Russian lyrics:
Тёмная ночь, только пули свистят по степи,
Только ветер гудит в проводах, тускло звёзды мерцают...
В тёмную ночь ты, любимая, знаю, не спишь,
И у детской кроватки тайком ты слезу утираешь.
Как я люблю глубину твоих ласковых глаз,
Как я хочу к ним прижаться хоть раз губами!
Тёмная ночь разделяет, любимая, нас,
И тревожная, чёрная степь пролегла между нами.
Верю в тебя, в дорогую подругу мою.
Эта вера от пули меня тёмной ночью хранила...
Радостно мне, я спокоен в смертельном бою:
Знаю, встретишь с любовью меня, что б со мной ни случилось.
Смерть не страшна, с ней встречались не раз мы в степи...
Вот и теперь надо мною она кружится,
Ты меня ждёшь и у детской кроватки не спишь,
И поэтому знаю, со мной ничего не случится!
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