Happy New Year in Moscow
CHAFEE, ZECHARIAH Jr.
HAPPY NEW YEAR IN MOSCOW Sitting around in the Kremlin While softly falls the snow, Tossing off the vodka To the pals we used to know. How closely we worked together Watching the Soviets...
...He stood before a firing squad Many weeks ago...
...Zechariah Chafee Jr...
...Who'll be the next to go...
...Open the photograph album Where the leaders of Russia stand...
...No prisoner lived long whom he questioned...
...Some died before a firing squad Many years ago...
...A band of staunch old comrades Defying the capitalist foe— The firing squad is practicing...
...He beguiled us with many a jest...
...They fell before a firing squad Many months ago...
...Izvestia was filled with letters From the people, who loved them so...
...One friend was praised in Pravda As Stalin's right-hand man...
...He built sixty-seven steel mills And made their furnaces glow...
...Molotov smiles at Malenkov And after his sick child asks...
...Khrushchev consults Vishinsky About his difficult tasks...
...in the Harvard Law School Record...
...Of all our investigators Another of us was best...
...We took him before a firing squad Just a few days ago...
...Eight out of ten were traitors Betraying the fatherland...
...How happy we were at his country house Hunting in the snow...
...How closely we worked together Watching the Soviets grow...
...He exiled a million peasants When collective farms began...
Vol. 37 • March 1954 • No. 10
