"
Those Were the Days" is a song credited to
Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the
Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой длинною", lit. "By the long road"), composed by
Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet
Konstantin Podrevsky. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.