머나먼 길 (Дорогой длинною)

"Those Were the Days" is a song composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) but credited to Gene Raskin, who wrote a new English-language lyric to Fomin's Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu", which had lyrics by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky. With Raskin's lyrics, the song is a reminiscence of youth and romantic idealism, recalling drinking, singing, and dancing in a tavern with a friend, imagining a rosy future that has not been fulfilled. The Welsh singer Mary Hopkin covered "Those Were the Days" as her debut single in 1968. Produced by Paul McCartney of the Beatles and arranged by Richard Hewson, the song became a number-one hit in the UK and Canada, and reached number two in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 behind the Beatles' "Hey Jude". It was number one in the first edition of the French National Hit Parade launched by the Centre d'Information et de Documentation du Disque. The song was included on Hopkin's 1969 debut album, Post Card.