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: