[COUNT IPOLITOV]
How can I desert you?
How to tell you why?
Coachmen, hold the horses
Stay, I pray you
Let me have a moment
Let me say goodbye

To bridge and river, forest, and waterfall
Orchard, sea, and sky
Harsh and sweet and bitter to leave it all

[COUNT IPOLITOV & ENSEMBLE]
I'll bless my homeland 'til I die

How to break the tie?
We have shed our tears
And shared our sorrows
Though the scars remain
And tears will never dry
I'll bless my homeland 'til I die

[ANYA]
Never to return

[DMITRY]
Finally breaking free
[ANYA & DMITRY]
You are all I know
You have raised me

[VLAD]
How to turn away?
How to close the door?

[ANYA, DMITRY & VLAD]
How to go where I have never gone before?

[ALL]
How can I desert you
How to tell you why?
Coachmen, hold the horses
Stay, I pray you
Let me have a moment
Let me say goodbye

[COUNT IPOLITOV]
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

[COUNT IPOLITOV & ENSEMBLE]
Ah-ah-ah
[ALL]
Harsh and sweet and bitter to leave it all
I'll bless my homeland 'til I die

[ANYA, DMITRY & VLAD]
I'll bless my homeland

[ANYA & DMITRY]
I'll bless my homeland

[ANYA]
I'll bless my homeland 'til I die