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Yo, ho, heave ho. Yo, ho, heave ho. Something something something something...
And that's all I remember of "The Song of the Volga Boatmen," practically the first song I learned on the piano when I started playing at age 6. I looked up the lyrics of the song to include in this blog, but I think I played a very Americanized version because the translated lyrics did not go along with my memories.
In any case, the Volga river runs right through the Russian oblast of Volgograd so perhaps the song of my childhood started there as well.... more
