What's a beginning of the Motherland ?
It begins with a picture in your ABC-book;
With your good and true friends,
Living in a neighboring yard.
Or maybe it begins
With those songs that the mother sang to us;
With those things, that in any tests
No one cannot take away from us.
What's a beginning of the Motherland ?...
It begins with the cherished bench near our gate;
With this little birch tree that in a field
Grows, bending in the winds.
Or maybe it begins
With the first spring song of starling,
And with this country road
That looks like endless one.
What's a beginning of the Motherland ?...
It begins with windows, shining in the distance;
With the father's old Budenovka
That we found somewhere in our closet.
Or maybe it begins
With a sound of railroad wagon wheels,
And with an oath to it, that in the youth
You've taken deep in your heart.
What's a beginning of the Motherland ? ...