Al Stewart - In red square

It's a shame about Stalin, the curator said


He really was one of the best


Just look at the detail on that head


Too bad to melt him down with the rest


But since they wrote him out of the history books


Nobody gives him a second look


It's amazing how little time it took


And now he's never gonna get his statue up in Red Square





I remember Krushchev, the old man said


He had real strength in his jaw


The setting sun would turn his skull pale red


But now they've packed him off to the store


He used to know how to stir things up back then


Banging his shoe on the table at the UN


He said he'd bury the west again and again


But now he's never gonna get his statue up in Red Square





Too bad about Lenin, the old man sighed


he really had quite a run


For seventy years he was idolized


Even though he missed most of the fun


But the new revolution promised everyone cars


So they burned down the Kremlin and brought back the Tsars


Now they're spraying blue paint over all the red stars


And he doesn't even have his picture up in Red Square