It takes ten years just to get Your stinking leg up Then five more to make it Not look like shit Soviet children form a crowd Sized and tested Who will be a star Hero of passion of whom they'll say She took her final breath in grand plie O! My mother! Russian Ballerina! You were a swan But now you're swimming in the Carribean O! My mother! Russian Ballerina! Nobody knows how you can live without the love of your life Everybody's asking me Where is Mary? I don't see her at the theatre Or the parties That's right, because She's carving bamboo Far from the artistic millieu Never thought she'd live without Allegiance to a life of art Oh! My mother! Russian ballerina!
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