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This is a song called "Amazing what progress has accomplished" from a 1979 film done in Odessa film studio.  The film is a children's movie called "Adventures of a Young Robot," and it had some great songs.  This one is my favourite; enjoy!

( Translation of lyrics here: )

The Life To Come

There is a City where God's happy children
Shall tread forever burnished floors, they say,
But I shall beg to walk in Oxford meadows
Where dance the golden flowers of May.

I cannot dream of walls upbuilt of jasper,
Nor can the gates of pearl the heart suffice;
Who once beholds the rainbows in the dewdrop
Has seen a pearl of greater price.

And when the harpers in that land are making
Strange melodies on earth unheard before,
If I might only hear once more Beethoven,
Then I should ask of God no more.

(Edward Shillito)