Red Army Blues Lyrics - Waterboys

When I left my home and my family 

my mother said to me 

"Son, it's not how many Germans you kill that counts 

It's how many people you set free!" 

So I packed my bags 

brushed my cap 

Walked out into the world 

seventeen years old 

Never kissed a girl 

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Took the train to Voronezh 

that was as far as it would go 

Changed my sacks for a uniform 

bit my lip against the snow 

I prayed for mother Russia 

in the summer of '43 

And as we drove the Germans back 

I really believed 

That God was listening to me 

We howled into Berlin 

tore the smoking buildings down 

Raised the red flag high 

burnt the reichstag brown 

I saw my first American 

and he looked a lot like me 

He had the same kinda farmer's face 

said he'd come from some place called Hazzard, Tennessee 

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Then the war was over 

my discharge papers came 

Me and twenty hundred others 

went to Stettiner for the train 

Kiev! said the commissar 

from there your own way home 

But I never got to Kiev 

we never came by home 

Train went north to the Taiga 

we were stripped and marched in file 

Up the great siberian road 

for miles and miles and miles and miles 

Dressed in stripes and tatters 

in a gulag left to die 

All because Comrade Stalin was scared that 

we'd become too westernized! 

Used to love my country 

used to be so young 

Used to believe that life was 

the best song ever sung 

I would have died for my country 

in 1945 

But now only one thing remains 

but now only one thing remains 

But now only one thing remains 

but now only one thing remains 

The brute will to survive!