Puff the mighty Stalin.wmv

The main joke is the way the two tunes fit together: one a beloved childrens' song, the other an anthem to totalitarian excess. The satyrical lyric is a bit stale, and Yarrow's original contains the immortal line "Dragons live forever, but not so little boys". This concept is the basis of the Toy Story movies and other great tales, so I feel a bit guilty about my parody version.
Next time, I'll drop the lyric. Both tunes are awesome.
Puff the Mighty Stalin spanned the century.
He terrorized the peasants in a land called Muscovy.
Little Johnny pauper loved that Man of Steel,
Who put him in the army and provided a square meal.

But the mighty Stalin - ruled by fear and hate.
He wiped out all the Kulaks as enemies of the State.
Next the intellectuals, and his comrades he betrayed,
And Stalin still survived behind his Cold-War barricade.

Now Dragons live forever by changing their disguise,
As high ideals and brotherhood gave way to western toys.
One grey night it happened when they smashed the Berlin Wall.
Now one-time Communism masquerades as Perestroi -- ka!

Puff the mighty Stalin lives on in different clothes.
The Internationale's replaced by nationalism now.
The land of free democracy has stifled all dissent,
And Moscow nights and civil rights, I wonder where they went?

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Music

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• political song
• parody
• anthems