Question: who sang those were the days my friend
Answer: `` 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 .