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Thread #125912   Message #2792560
Posted By: Ross Campbell
20-Dec-09 - 12:18 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: We Are from Omsk (We make best bombsk)
Subject: Lyr Req: We are from Omsk; We make best bombs
Anybody have any info about this song? Ken Kershaw sang it at the Moorbrook (Preston, Lancs) session on Friday night last, but I neglected to get any more details from him, and it may be some time before our visits there coincide again.

The song went to the tune (more or less) of The Volga Boatmen, first verse went like this:-

We are from Omsk
We make best bombs
Best bombs come from Omsk
Omsk bombs are best bombs
(not sure if there should be two more lines here? Possibly
Omsk bombs are best bombs
Best bombs come from Omsk)
We make best bombs
We are from Omsk

The song continued in similar vein for:-
Murmansk (best tanks)
Muscovites (best Satellites)
Irkutsk (best haircuts)
Vladivostok (best bloody ballcocks)
and probably a couple of other cities I've forgotten.

Any info (author? date ['60s?] further cities?) appreciated.

Ross