MAY-POLE SONG

Hair’em, tear’em, frighten and scare them,

Lenin and Stalin and Marx

Went to the fair

And what did they there?

They were looking for giggles and laughs.

 

Lenin called the crowd brothers,

They were better than others

For being there to answer the call.

He opened a shrine hitting capitalist swine

At twopence or threepence a ball.

 

Stalin went down to the centre of town

Descending like Moses from mountains.

He spent all the day

Refusing to pay

And shooting his generals off fountains.

 

Marx repeatedly said

He was not really red

But had been badly misrepresented.

He was selling his book at a penny a look

And certified those who dissented.

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