In Red Square [*] - Al Stewart, Peter White Lyrics - Russians & Americans - Al Stewart

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