Leningrad-Erwin Nyhoff

[ti:Leningrad] [ar:Erwin Nyhoff] [al:You Still Think (Covers & Originals)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Leningrad - Erwin Nyhoff [00:31.20]Viktor was born in the spring of '44 [00:37.99]And never saw his father anymore [00:44.00]A child of sacrifice a child of war [00:49.11] [00:49.99]Another son who never had a father after Leningrad [00:57.49]Went off to school and learned to serve the state [01:03.73]Followed the rules and drank his vodka straight [01:10.32]The only way to live was drown the hate [01:15.59] [01:16.45]A Russian life was very sad [01:19.93]And such was life in Leningrad [01:24.16] [01:25.92]I was born in '49 [01:28.72]A cold war kid in McCarthy time [01:31.58]Stop 'em all at the 38th Parallel [01:34.88]Blast those yellow reds to hell [01:37.93]And cold war kids were hard to kill [01:40.66]Under their desks in an air raid drill [01:43.91]Haven't they heard we won the war [01:47.59]What do they keep on fighting for [01:55.28]Viktor was sent to some Red Army town [02:01.62]Served out his time became a circus clown [02:07.69]The greatest happiness he'd ever found [02:14.10]Was making Russian children glad [02:17.77]And children lived in Leningrad [02:21.48] [02:23.70]But children lived in Levittown [02:26.12]And hid in the shelters underground [02:28.84]Until the Soviets turned their ships around [02:32.37]And tore the Cuban missiles down [02:35.26]And in that bright October sun [02:38.57]We knew our childhood days were done [02:41.44]And I watched my friends go off to war [02:45.09]What do they keep on fighting for [02:49.52] [02:52.24]And so my child and I came to this place [02:58.78] [02:59.31]To meet him eye to eye and face to face [03:05.32]He made my daughter laugh then we embraced [03:11.16] [03:11.87]We never knew what friends we had [03:15.44]Until we came to Leningrad