title of song/verse

[Robert A. Rothstein]

It wasn't clear to me whether Steven Hill was asking about the song sung 
by Vysotsky (identified by Anthony Qualin) or about the song that 
Vysotsky is alluding to in that song. The latter is a well-known "Gypsy" 
song with many variants that is usually called "Dve gitary" (from its 
first line: "Dve gitary za stenoi...") and that derives ultimately from 
Apollon Grigor'ev's 1857 poem "Tsyganskaia vengerka." Before 
"Podmoskovnye vechera" and "Those Were the Days" it was one of the two 
Russian melodies best known in the United States. (The other was "Ochi 
chernye.") In the 1920s and 30s "Two Guitars" was used on the radio as 
the theme song for Harry Horlick's band "The A&P Gypsies."
Bob Rothstein

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