DIPLOMATS

 

 

MOLOKOV

No-one can deny these are encouraging times.

 

ALL

No-one can deny these are encouraging times.

 

MOLOKOV

It’s the U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.

Yet we more or less are—

 

ALL

No-one can deny these are encouraging times.

 

MOLOKOV

—To our credit putting all that aside

We have swallowed our pride.

 

ALL

These are optimistic and encouraging times.

 

2^nd AMERICAN

It really doesn’t  matter who comes out on top

Who gets the chop.

 

MOLOKOV

No-one’s way of life is threatened by a flop.

 

AMERICANS

But we’re gonna smash their bastard!

Make him wanna change his name

Take him to the cleaners and devastate him

Wipe him out, humiliate him.

 

MOLOKOV / RUSSIANS

We don’t want the whole world saying

They can’t even win a game

We have never reckoned

On coming second

There’s no use in losing.

 

MOLOKOV

It’s the red flag up against stars and stripes

But we’re peace-loving types.

 

ALL

No-one can deny these are encouraging times

 

1^st AMERICAN

It’s a sweet hail-fellow well-met affair

For both eagle and bear.

 

ALL
These are optimistic and encouraging times

 

MOLOKOV

To those that say that this is not a friendly clash

Don’t be so rash!

I assure you comrades that is balderdash.

 

AMERICANS

What a load of whining peasants!

Thinking they can win—they can’t.

What an exhibition of self-delusion

This one’s a foregone conclusion.

 

MOLOKOV / RUSSIANS

But—enough of all this beating

Round the bushes of détente

We intend to collar

The Yankee dollar

We shall thrash them, trash them.

 

MOLOKOV

How good to feel that as this great event begins

It underpins

Our quest for peace, the bonds of common interest

Of East and West.

 

AMERICANS

As long as our man wins

 

RUSSIANS

As long as our man.

 

ALL

…Wins.