Mary Hopkin's version produced by Paul McCartney in 1968 of a song originally composed by Gene Raskin who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song Dorogoi dlinnoyu(By the long road),composed by Bori Fomin with words by poet Konstantin Podrevsky.The song deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.In Mary Hopkin's versionthe song became a number one hit on the UK single charts.