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The Red Tibet - The Canal Army Song (Author Unknown, 1932​-​33)

from IN SOLIDARITY: Songs Of Struggle and Liberation by LEFT/FOLK

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The Canal Army Song
(author unknown, 1932-33)

The birch of Karelia, your time has gone,
So bow your head bold under the chopper’s blow.
‘Cross the rivers and lakes, through the rain and snow
The White Sea we reach, to the White Sea we go!.. 
Red and blue are the dawns of the North
In July or January. As we rose,
Closer was the Sea, closer was the water 
So salt, green and cold… 

And good was our job, no one let down. 
As twenty months passed, we made the Canal. 
And for those twenty months we ain’t worked in vain: 
We learned to mix cement, fitters and locksmiths became 

And we’re lost no more,
The life full of virtues we’ll live, this path we’ll ever go!

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Песня каналоармейца
(автор неизвестен, 1932-33)

Карельская береза, пришла твоя пора
Поникнуть головою под ударом топора.
По рекам и озерам, под снегом и дождём
До самого, до Белого, до моря мы дойдем!


На синей, на малиновой, на северной заре
Вставали мы в июле, вставали в январе,
А море приближалось, все ближе к нам была
Зеленая, соленая, студеная вода…


Мы здорово работали, никто не подкачал,
И ровно в двадцать месяцев закончили Канал.
Мы эти двадцать месяцев работали не зря –
Теперь уж мы бетонщики, монтеры, слесаря!

Теперь уж ни за что мы нигде не пропадем,
До праведной, до самой, до жизни мы дойдем!

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from IN SOLIDARITY: Songs Of Struggle and Liberation, released October 2, 2020
"The Canal Army Song (author unknown, 1932-33)" by The Red Tibet from their album, Canal Army Songs EP (2018)

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"Песня каналоармейца (автор неизвестен, 1932-33)" by Красный Тибет
from their album, Песни каналоармейца, EP (2018)

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