This is one of those melodies that everybody knows, but nobody knows the words. These are the lyrics we have so far for the upcoming Rise Again songbook, but I don't have a credible source to verify the lyrics. Can anybody check them for accuracy?

Please note that somebody above requested English lyrics for this song.

-Joe-

OCHI CHYORNYE (Dark Eyes)
(w: Yevhen Hrebinka (Yevgenii Grebyonka), m: Florian Hermann)

Ochi chyornye, ochi strastnye
Ochi zhguchie i prekrasnye
Kak lyublyu ya vas, kak boyus' ya vas
Znat', uvidyel vas ya v nyedobryi chas

Ochi chyornye, zhguchye plamenny
I manyat oni v strany dal'niye
Gdye tsarit lyubov', gdye tsarit pokoi
Gdye stradan'ya nyet, gdye vrazhdye zapryet

Ne vstrechal by vas, ne stradal by tak
Ya prozhil by zhizn' ulybayuchis'
Vy zgubili menya, ochi chyornye
Unyesli navek moyo schastiye

——w: Yevhen Hrebinka (Yevgenii Grebyonka), m: Florian Hermann
("Valse Hommage")

Hebrinka was a Ukranian poet who first published his Russian lyrics in 1843. This cabaret song was popularized by Fyodor Chaliapin.