One night in Soviet Russia
There was a medical institute dance
On the restaurant floor of the guest house
And I wandered in there by chance
My friends were already seated
And I was an hour or so late
The dance band played Russian dance music
As I ordered my meal and I ate
They wheeled and sang all around us
Student songs from the left and the right
The music was sad like a circus
You could hear the Siberian night
I felt a hand on my shoulder
Heard a word as I turned and I saw
A lovely Siberian daughter
And she led me out onto the floor
We danced for a song I remember
Or maybe we danced for a few
Her name she said was Yelena
And her eyes were Siberian blue
And when the music was over
I returned to my friends where they sang
"The stars and the stripes are forever"
"Til one of them held out his hand
And arm in arm with a local
And balancing high on a chair
They delivered a toast with a bottle
Of Bulgarian blood of the bear
"Tonight we can share this fire
Tomorrow we may be consumed"
My eyes were walking a wire
To yelena with her friends across the room
One night in Soviet Russia
I waited for her by the door
The Siberian stars were like lightning
As we wandered down by the shore
Yelena, Yelena
Lake Baikal drains through these towns
Cold as a mirror
And deeper than any man drowns
There was a medical institute dance
On the restaurant floor of the guest house
And I wandered in there by chance
My friends were already seated
And I was an hour or so late
The dance band played Russian dance music
As I ordered my meal and I ate
They wheeled and sang all around us
Student songs from the left and the right
The music was sad like a circus
You could hear the Siberian night
I felt a hand on my shoulder
Heard a word as I turned and I saw
A lovely Siberian daughter
And she led me out onto the floor
We danced for a song I remember
Or maybe we danced for a few
Her name she said was Yelena
And her eyes were Siberian blue
And when the music was over
I returned to my friends where they sang
"The stars and the stripes are forever"
"Til one of them held out his hand
And arm in arm with a local
And balancing high on a chair
They delivered a toast with a bottle
Of Bulgarian blood of the bear
"Tonight we can share this fire
Tomorrow we may be consumed"
My eyes were walking a wire
To yelena with her friends across the room
One night in Soviet Russia
I waited for her by the door
The Siberian stars were like lightning
As we wandered down by the shore
Yelena, Yelena
Lake Baikal drains through these towns
Cold as a mirror
And deeper than any man drowns