MORE (SURPRISING) 1940’S MUSIC LYRICS

You probably didn’t know that during the early years of World War II, the Golden Gate Quartet released the special musical number “Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’,” praising Stalin for stepping in to stop Hitler. Here’s how it went:

Chorus:

Stalin wasn’t stallin’

When he told the beast of Berlin

That they’d never rest contented

Till they had driven him from the land

So he called the Yanks and English

And proceeded to extinguish

The Führer and its vermin

This is how it all began

 

Now, the Devil, he was reading

In the Good Book one day

How that Lord created Adam

To walk the righteous way

And it made the Devil jealous

He turned green up to his horns

And he swore by things unholy

And he made one of his own

 

So he packed two suitcases

Full of grief and misery

And he caught the Midnight Special

Going down to Germany

Then he mixed his lies and hatred

With fire and brimstone

Then the Devil sat upon it

That’s how Adolf was born

 

Now Adolf got the notion

That he was the master race

And he swore he’d bring New Order

And put mankind in its place!

So he set a scheme in motion

And was winning everywhere

Until he upped and got the notion

For to kick that Russian bear – Chorus

 

Yes, he kicked that noble Russian

But it wasn’t very long

Before Adolf got suspicious

That he had done something wrong

‘Cause that bear grabbed the Führer

And gave him an awful fright

Seventeen months he scrapped the Führer

Tooth and claw, day and night

 

Then that bear smacked the Führer

With a mighty armored paw

And Adolf broke all records

Running backward to Krakaw

Then Goebbels sent a message

To the people everywhere

That if they couldn’t hit the Führer

Go down hit that Russian bear – Chorus

 

Then this bear called on his buddy

The noble fighting Yank

And they sent the Führer running

With their ships and planes and tanks

Now the Führer’s having nightmares

Cause the Führer knows darn well

That the Devil’s done wrote “Welcome”

On his residence in Hell – Chorus

 

Now, for us, it seems incredibly ironic that Americans are singing the praises of the Russians for putting an end to the Nazi plague, but in fact we would never have been able to stop Hitler without them. Stalin, of course, became his own plague after Hitler was eradicated. So perhaps we need a new song showing how the West, and in particular Ukraine, finally “drove the Russian vermin from their land!” Let’s hope so!

Here’s a link to the original recording by the Golden Gate Quartet: