Waterboys - Red Army Blues |
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Red Army Blues
a. SONG OF THE STEPPES b. RED ARMY BLUES my mother said to me When I left my home and my family son it's not how many Germans you kill that counts it's how many people you set free so I packed my bags walked out into the world brushed my cap never kissed a girl seventeen years old that was far it would go bit my lip against the snow I took the train to Voronezh changed my sacks for a uniform I prayed for Mother Russia in the summer of 43 and as we drove the Germans back I really believed God was listenin' to me we howled into Berlin tore the smoking buildings down raised the red flag high burnt the Reichstag brown he looked a lot like me had the same kind of I saw my first American farmer's face said he come from some place called Hazard, Tennessee when the war was over my discharge papers came me and twenty hundred others went to Stettiner for the train Kiev but I never got to Kiev from there your own way home we never came by home the train went north to the taiga we were stripped and marched in file up the great siberian road miles and miles and miles dressed in stripes and tatters in a gulag left to die all because comrade Stalin feared we'd become too westernized! used to love my country used to be so young was the best song I would have died used to believe that life ever sung back in 1945 for my country the brute will to survivebut now only one thing remains |
