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THE UNKNOWN
SOLDIER'S
PATENT LEATHER
SHOES
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Script and director
RANGEL VALCHANOV
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The sequence with myself
in front of the Buckingham Palace
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was shot last summer.
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But it happened 17 years ago.
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I stood by the same iron fence then
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and watched the changing of the guard,
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dazed by the splendor
of that impressive Great Britain,
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that seemed eternal with her traditions.
And as I was gaping,
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I pressed the wrong button
"Play" instead of "Rec".
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And this song popped up,
this harvest song...
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Chance? Probably!
A chance but for so many years now
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this song incessantly comes back
into my mind
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and together with it my long forgotten
aunts. Their distant voices
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took me back to my little country.
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To my village... a long time ago...
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Besides smells the first lasting
memories were the constant questions
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about everything.
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The plain - why was it so flat?
The grass - why was it green?
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Mum - why is she bad
when she isn't good?
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Or the sparrow -
Don't stare - jump into this trap?
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The first painful lessons too
and the sad conclusions
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about the birds in the hand
and in the bush.
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Most numerous were the memories
based on exaggerations.
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A simple pond was a lake,
the lake was a huge sea.
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So after a shower-just and ordinary one-
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the village turned into Venice.
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And we were stopped from school
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for a long time,
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because the desks
were swept away by the river.
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Later the sea suddenly disappeared
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It disappeared just as it has appeared.
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The miracle left here
shows that we once had a sea.
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These are my relatives - hundreds of them.
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That one with the copper is Granny Slavah.
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That's her again!
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Little Black Uncle.
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Grandpa Dobrin's hands
Aunt Vassilka's...
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Aunt Vena's, Stana's...
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My father.
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Now don't be scared!
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It's all right.
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It's all right, we can eat it!
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Don't you see it's all poisoned
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and we're to eat it!
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Don't you see it's no good!
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It's because of the leeches it's bad.
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To poison my family! Never!
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Don't even think about this!
Throw it!
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Throw it away, women..
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We spent the whole day catching it!
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Why do they throw it in the street?
And as it's a street it has to be a street.
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Now Grandma Slavah has stolen a fish!
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Dogs don't eat fish. But that moonlit
night they did. And had a feast...
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All of us hundred relatives slept
in one room. On top of each other.
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After a time they'd push us children
into the middle of the room.
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Not to interfere with various things.
So that they could talk...
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Grandpa's coughing. Why?
What's he hiding?
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They don't talk at the back anyway.
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Plague on you!
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Who told you to burn the house down?
I ask you... Get out of here!
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Granny wants to set the house on fire
and Grandpa's saving it.
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We were used to this scene,
it happened every Friday.
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We children felt a pleasant fear
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knowing that Grandpa would save us.
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This memory's linked with "why?".
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Why does Granny want to burn the house
so that we all burn?
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When you used to come back from
the army - one child and one more...
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But you can't any more!
- You dirty bitch!
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God, he'll kill me!
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I was killed, oh, God, I was killed!
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On Fridays Grandma used to go
to the field. She picked various herbs
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from under the snow and used to sell
them to Embassies for empty bottles.
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Not money, only bottles.
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She used to bring them to the village
and exchange them for various coins
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of different ages.
She used to say:
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"When I grow old
who knows which money will be good?"
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Sleep, my baby, sleep!
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It was dark because the dog ate my eye.
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That's it! - That was it
but I was proud and bandaged,
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and my relatives fainted with horror.
Only little Black Uncle didn't,
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but later I any way gouged out
both his eyes for another thing.
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The dog ran away ashamed
because he ate me up for no reason.
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And so I decided:
I won't talk to you any more!
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And if this isn't a lie...!
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Now it'll die, it's guilty!
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Grandpa used to say:
"Learn from a dog and not from a man".
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Of course my eye got well
all of a sudden.
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Too bad the dog died of shame,
too bad...
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It's a holiday today!
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My youngest Black Uncle's getting married.
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So Grandpa and Granny
had to seat together.
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Grandpa, why didn't you
give Uncle any money?
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Who put so much salt?
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You all hung around the fire -
it's your doing!
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Look, a tear!
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Mum! Whenever you're having fun
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somebody's bound to box your ears.
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God! What happened?
- I died - that's what happened!
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If only I could be dead
for the rest of my life!
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You're sorry, eh?
Why do you beat me then, why?
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I'll grow up and I'll kill you
like a leech.
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It came to my mind and I said it.
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I'll grow up and I'll kill you
like a leech.
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You want some more?
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Some more, ah?
But if I die again, then you'll see!
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Come on, eat now!
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Black Uncle's getting married.
That's why they've forgotten about you.
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If you only knew how lovely
and white my new aunt is!
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You'll eat here
for they may kill you in the yard!
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Mum nearly killed me before.
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At a wedding, they fight, kill and eat,
you understand this?
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Look! They're shouting
'cause they've had enough.
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If only there were a wedding every day!
Yes, but who'd take you out grazing?
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I know a wedding can't graze!
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What if the wedding could graze...
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Granny Slavah
had stolen something again!
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This chest's everything for Granny.
She hides money, brandy, sugar in it.
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And on this very chest long time ago when
Grandpa used to come back from war...
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God! So many children!
Who's going to look after them!?
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God's punishment!?
Twenty-two, twenty-three...
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What?
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What is it?
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You're crazy or what?
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Go back to your homes.
War is over.
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Go back and look after your children!
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"And so the war ended
to our great surprise,
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that dangerous war.
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First World War, European one.
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There were many dead... fallen,
dead, dead and wounded
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on these battlefields
for seven long years...
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Everybody's rejoicing, kissing,
heading for home to see little children,
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to wipe a bride's tears,
their bride's tears, and comfort them."
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Go to...
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You, devil, you've spilt the flour!
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Out! Off with you! Get off my way!
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I'm not on your way,
I'm on the oven's way!
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You still hate me.
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I hate you too!
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Let it go, you, little devil!
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Granny, why do you steal?
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Off with you, you, brute!
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Thief!
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If he's bad and dies
let him turn into a black bird.
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If the murderer's bad and they shoot him
let'im turn into two black birds!
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One and two makes three.
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How strange!
Somebody was murdered, but nobody cried!
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See, Granny is laughing...
Strange!
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May be this murder took place
some other time, at another wedding!?
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I seem to have got mixed up.
Yeah, that's it. I wish that was it.
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I wish these
songs and dances never end
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and they never stop kissing their hands.
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And for auntie to be a bride forever,
with flowers and gold coins on her head.
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"Stoyan was taken in the army
at the Turkish border.
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But since his bride is still young
he is sorry to leave her.
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He's even sorrier to take her along..."
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Mone, are you asleep?
No, I was looking at the war.
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To your health!
To your health, young man!
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Hey man, cheers! Be healthy and strong,
become a man like me!
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Have a little!
- I won't.
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Let's see whether you're man or not.
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Have some, then you'll sing a song.
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Cheers!
- Let's see how you drink! Bravo!
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Who does he take after?
- I don't know.
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Laugh if you want to.
But since I'm a man,
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listen carefully.
And three... and four...
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"A prisoner's mother is weeping
in front of Sofia's City Prison...
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And as she weeps, she laments:
Come out, my son, my son, Dimiter!"
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Why aren't you laughing now!
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"A voice is heard through the thick walls:
I cannot come out, oh mother, dear.
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The damned Director has locked me up!"
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I felt sorry and proud, to have made
these old people cry with my song.
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You were the soldier in the song!
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This wedding has no end,
I'm sick of it!
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I had promised to gouge out
both your eyes, remember? Take this!
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Where did the wedding disappear?
Has auntie gone too?
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Thank God, the wedding's here!
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They're drawing water from the well
for auntie,not for uncle,but for auntie!
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To water the street for her health,for...
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What are you looking at me for?
I gouged out both your eyes.
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Auntie! White auntie...
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At last Granny set the house on fire
and all my relatives burned with it,
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and my white auntie with them.
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Grandpa, say something!
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Grandpa!
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My lovely little auntie burned out!
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Auntie...
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Grandpa!
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Grandpa! Say something!
Say anything you want!
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Auntie,is that you? How did you come in?
Are you going to bed? Good night, then.
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"So the house was burned.
And with it
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all my relatives turned to ashes.
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Only Mone was left,
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poor little orphan,
young and miserable.
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All alone he came
to the big city of Sofia
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to fetch black shoes,
beautiful patent leather shoes!"
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Buy the song-book to read
what happened to the poor orphan.
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Take it! Buy this song-book!
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"What miracle has happened
in the big city of Sofia
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that everyone's so excited?
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Everyone's shouting and singing
'cause a new war's beginning,
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a war with many bells.
Bells in golden domes.
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A general draws his sword...
and asks his army:
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"Shall we all go to war?"
"We will, of course we will!"
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And again he draws his sword...
Do you want to go to war?
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We want, of course we do!
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And Mone was very happy that he'd go
to war too, in his patent leather shoes,
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lovely patent leather shoes.
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Back he went to his village
to tell his Grandpa the story
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of the miracle that had happened
in the big city of Sofia."
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And what a war it was!
When they started shooting...
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And the soldiers from Sofia
shouted ow, ow.
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Grandpa, if you'd just seen
the gold church!
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Look, eh! And there was a boot as big as
a house, and small ones to fit a mouse.
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There were people driving cars,
and the women were with bare backs,
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and the men held their hands.
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It seems that while I was away Grandpa had
died for he kept quiet with open eyes.
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And I had gone nowhere.
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And the war was only a song I thought
of, just to bring Grandpa back to life.
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To make him say something,
no matter what.
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A hundred years must've passed
because Grandpa shrank.
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Become as big as I was.
And because he was still silent
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I knew that I had to bury him,
even more since today's Sunday.
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Look, Granny's still alive,
she surely came to steal Grandpa.
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Granny!
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Granny!
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Granny!
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Only the goat and I went to the funeral.
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The whole village was at a wedding
and so much the better.
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I'd have been ashamed of people
for Grandpa has shrunk so much.
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Auntie, is that you?
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Grandpa died, that's it.
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Take some so that God may let
his soul rest in peace.
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I went to Sofia. I went to war too.
But it's a pity Grandpa died!
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But... he... was like that for a hundred years.
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Auntie! I want to tell you...
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01:14:16,777 --> 01:14:18,817
Auntie, come back, Auntie!
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01:16:30,890 --> 01:16:38,409
"Well, there's no mountain
higher than Vitosha.
239
01:16:41,609 --> 01:16:49,249
Well, there's no river
deeper than Iskar.
240
01:16:52,928 --> 01:17:00,968
Well, there's no city
bigger than Sofia.
241
01:17:06,328 --> 01:17:13,727
Well, there's no place
better than ours.
242
01:17:14,807 --> 01:17:23,487
Well, there's no place
better than ours."
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01:17:25,807 --> 01:17:31,606
There isn't but there isn't Auntie either.
There isn't Grandpa!
244
01:17:33,326 --> 01:17:38,286
I'll wait for them here till I grow old.
245
01:18:57,881 --> 01:19:04,961
Well, that's all. Just a song,
but the past comes and goes,
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01:19:05,241 --> 01:19:08,721
comes and goes...
The memories of a child,
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01:19:08,961 --> 01:19:13,360
that wonderful army
I was telling you about.
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01:19:13,440 --> 01:19:18,040
Always ready to help
when we're threatened.
249
01:19:20,480 --> 01:19:23,160
And what's there
that doesn't threaten us!
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