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Posted By: GUEST,Felipa
20-Mar-21 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: Joe Glazer - Ballads for Sectarians
Subject: RE: Joe Glazer - Ballads for Sectarians
The link Joe Offer gave for part of Bill Bailey, The Ultimate Sectarian no longer works. I heard it on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAjRLLa5YFE
I learned "My Darling Party Line" in my youth because my father had a "Ballad for Sectarians" song booklet. Of course I already knew the Darling Clementine tune. You can also find that trackof Ballads for Sectarians on you tube. It's about the 1939 Hitler - Stalin pact.
My Darling Party Line
In ol' Moscow, in the Kremlin,
In the fall of thirty nine
Sat a Russian and a Prussian
Writing out the party line
Oh my darling, Oh my darling,
Oh my darling party line
Oh, I never will desert you
For I love this life of mine
Leon Trotsky was a Nazi,
Oh, we knew it for a fact.
Pravda said it, we all read it
Before the Stalin-Hitler Pact
Oh my darling, Oh my darling,
Oh my darling party line
Oh, I never will desert you
For I love this life of mine
Once a Nazi would be shotsy
That was then the party line
Now a Nazi's hotsy-totsy,
Trotsky's laying British mines
Oh my darling, Oh my darling,
Oh my darling party line
Oh, I never will desert you
For I love this life of mine
Now the Nazis and Der Fuehrer
Stand within the party line
All the Russians love the Prussians
Volga boatmen sail the Rhine
Oh my darling, Oh my darling,
Oh my darling party line
Oh, I never will desert you
For I love this life of mine