Russian Limbaugh
words and music by Roy Zimmerman
© 1994 Watunes (BMI)
(From "Sing it Loud")
(A slightly revised version of this song appears on "Folk Heroes" [Reprise])

(spoken)
This is the story of Vladimir Zhirinovsky — an unlikely folk hero perhaps, he's being called the Hitler of Russia. He's a right-wing extremist, ultra-nationalist, power-hungry blowhard. He's Russian Limbaugh.

(sung)
My mother, she is Russian
My veins are full of borscht
But for the sake of this discussion
My parents are divorscht
Yes, long before election
My name was Eidelshtein
You show me circumspection
But I'll never show you mine

I lie, lie, lie — it's habitual
I lie, lie, lie — can't help it — You will
'Scuse me while I stage another coup
I'm Russian Limbaugh, I will bury you

I'm ready now to cash in
On the people's will
All done up in the latent fascist — uh, latest fashion
Overdressed to overkill
I'm taking back Alaska
The Russian River, too
So set aside a cask of Kendall Jackson '82

I lie, lie, lie — it's habitual
I lie, lie, lie — it's my niche — You will
'Scuse me while I drop the other shoe
I'm Russian Limbaugh, I will bury you
Russian Limbaugh, just like you-know-who
And by the way, I'm not a Jew

(spoken)
I have a letter on KGB letterhead, written when the KGB was still in operation... which, of course, we know it no longer is... stating that I, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, was never an operative of the KGB. Signed, me.

(sung)
I'm causing much hysteria
From area to area
They treat me like malaria or even dysenteria
I'm scarier and scarier to people in Bulgaria
Bavaria is wary of my various militaria

Hey, world, I got a secret
weapon called ellipton
Like they got on Krypton
Hey, was that a banana or my tongue I slipped on?

We've had enough of Yeltsin
He's arrogant and fat
It's time we put somebody else in
A Liberal Democrat
You call me an extremist
For the opinions I disgorge
You certainly must be mistaking me for Wally George

I lie, lie, lie — it's habitual
I lie, lie, lie — can't help it — You will
'Scuse me while I break your back in two
I'm Russian Limbaugh, I will bury you
Russian Limbaugh, just like you-know-who
But from a different point of view
And by the way I'm not a Jew!