Walter Gourlay on the changing party line

Nazis can instantly become the good guys

A song written by Daily Worker journalist Walter Gourlay, writing under his party name Walter Cliff, apparently in 1941. It is sung to the tune of “Darling Clementine.”

In old Moscow, in the Kremlin,
In the fall of thirty-nine,
Sat a Russian and a Prussian,
Writing out the party line.

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Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling party line.
Oh I never will desert you,
'Cause 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.

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Once a Nazi would be shot, see,
That was then the party line.
Now a Nazi's hotsy-totsy,
Trotsky's laying British mines.

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Now the Nazis and Der Fuehrer
Stand within the party line,
All the Russians love the Prussians,
Volga boatmen sail the Rhine.

CHORUS

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