"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 '', literally "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.
who did the song those were the days
Gene Raskin