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Thread #104445 Message #4013026
Posted By: PHJim
11-Oct-19 - 09:35 AM
Thread Name: The Joe Stalin Blues (Pete Seeger)
Subject: RE: The Joe Stalin Blues (Pete Seeger)
GUEST,Gerry - PM
Date: 09 Oct 19 - 08:42 PM
PHJim wrote,
*In Boy Scouts in the fifties we used to sing a song...
*Yuri Gagarin's our cosmonaut,
*Vive La Joe Stalin.
*We put him up on our very first shot,
*Vive La Joe Stalin.
They put Gagarin up in 1961, so if the Boy Scouts sang this in the fifties, they were well ahead of their time.
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You are right GUEST,Gerry. This sliver of memory often lets me down these days. I guess I was still in Scouts into the sixties.