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Happy Birthday, Leonid Brezhnev
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Joan Baez
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(Words and Music by Joan Baez)
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Happy birthday, Leonid Brezhnev
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What a lovely seventy-fifth
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We watched the party on TV
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You seemed to be taking things casually
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What a mighty heart must beat in your breast
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To hold forty-nine medals on your chest
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Think of all the gifts that you've got
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Some were acquired and some were not
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Like a natural talent for marionettes
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Who do your dirty work and cover your bets
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So with one hand waving free
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The other one crushed a budding democracy
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Congratulations, Jaruzelski
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What a wonderful job you have done
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Let me mention to a sane man's eye
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You've lost the meaning of compromise
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They're comparing you to General Pinochet
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It's a dubious compliment at best
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Your people are freezing, the workers are bleeding
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You've already arranged numerous deaths
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The only difference in the camps from the stadiums
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Is not much for the doomed all cry
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It's only the weather and the songs people sing
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Just before they die
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Do you hear us, Lech Walesa?
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What a terrible price you have paid
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For being ahead of your time
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Has surely constituted a crime
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Oh, Mr. Brezhnev, look
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Somebody read the little red book
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And took it all seriously
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The way you did when you were young and you believed
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And you workers and you black Madonna
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You're not supposed to utter a word
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But the courage of you and your man of the year
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Is a symphony the world has seldom seen or heard
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Through the Siberian gates of hell
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The Pope and the bishops are wishing you well
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We see your candles in the park
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Hear your fearless promises in the dark
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How they cheat and when tried to win
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They didn't know that there would always be within you
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And we hear you, Lech Walesa
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Yes, we hear you, Lech Walesa
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Yes, we hear you, Lech Walesa
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Yes, we hear you, Lech Walesa
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