"Pesenka Krokodila Genui" is the Russian birthday song, from the Soviet era animation "Cheburashka". Music by Shayinski, words by Timofeyevski.

Песенка Крокодила Гены

Припев:
Я играю на гармошке
У прохожих на виду...
К сожалению, день рождения
Только раз в году.

Пусть бегут неуклюже
Пешеходы по лужам,
А вода – по асфальту рекой.
И неясно прохожим
В этом день непогожий,
Почему я весёлый такой.

Припев

Прилетить вдруг большебник
В голубом вертолёте
И бесплатно покажет кино,
С днём рождения поздравит
И, наверно, оставит
Мне в подарок пятьсот «Эскимо».

Припев

Transliterated for those without Unicode support:

Refrain:
Ya igrayu na garmoshke
U prochozhich na vidu...
K sazhelyenyu, den' razhden'ya
Tol'ko raz v godu.

Pust' begut niuklyuzhye
Peshechodui po luzham,
A voda -- po asphal'tu rekoy.
I niyasna prochozhim
V etam den' nipogozhi,
Pochimu ya visyoli takoy.

refrain

Prilyetit vdrug bolshebnik
V golubom vertolyotye
I besplatno pokazhit kino
S dnyom razhdeniya pozdravit
I naverno, ostavit
Mne v podarok pyats'ot "eskimo".

refrain

Translation by Zarmvenius

Refrain:
I play the concertina,
In the view of the passers-by...
Unfortunately, a birthday
Is only once a year.

Let them run awkwardly
Stepping over the puddles,
And the water will flow like a river.
And it's not clear to the passers-by
On this unweatherable day,
Why I'm so happy.

refrain

Suddenly a wizard flies in
In a light blue helicopter
And shows a movie for free.
He's stopping by for the birthday
And he'll probably leave
Me a present of 500 Eskimo bars.

As a native of Russia(I have hence moved to the United States as a Jewish refugee), I was brought up from early childhood by oppressed parents who, because of the times, were forced to indoctrinate Communist pledges and greetings into their everyday speech. See if you can see where this all fits into the following.

To the song!

The story of Genui (pronounced gey-nah), the African Crocodile, is approaching its 50th year in production. He is a gentle, melancholy crocodile... yet he will pounce with anger on any 'Naxal'(bastard) that dares get into his way. Although he is sometimes shy, Genui was once a member of a famous theatre troupe. He can sing in a deep baritone and is excellent at the bagpipes.

This is how our friend Genui met 'Cheburashka', the main character of the stories (a turtle): One day, lonely as usual, the crocodile Genui decided to change his life and posted a huge sign proclaiming his desire for friends throughout the city. After meeting some kind-hearted people who were also searching for real companions, he built the House of Friends and anyone who ever wanted a friend could stop by there and not have to worry about anything.

I did not make ANY of this up, I researched this and used this website http://chebur.hobby.ru/gena.html (I sincerely hope you can all read Russian) along with an actual manuscript of 'Cheburashka'.

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