A spring song

[shewhomust]

We are young, and the boys of our village
Are as bright as the stars up above.
Though we study our Marx and our Lenin
Still we sigh, in the springtime, for love.

Chorus:
Can it be as you say? Does love get you that way?
Oh, please tell me just how this can be.
We're in tune with the spring;
All the world seems to sing,
In our country so young and so free!

See that boy, with a tie like a rainbow,
On his way to the park for a stroll?
He's a Komsomol hero of labour,
With a prize for his output in coal.

Chorus:
Can it be as you say? &c....

Songs I learned at my mother's knee... She may have got it from Unity Theatre / Leeds Unity Theatre, but if anyone knows any more about its provenance, please tell me.

Comments

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

I'm very curious now, too. I'm sure you've already discovered that searching the internet isn't much help.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you could do that, so I probably haven't.

But no, given a choice between having a secret and showing off, I'll show off!

Good "strawberry thief" icon, btw - you have a great set of icons!

Exciting discovery

[(Anonymous)]

My dad said he was taught this one at school at the back end of WWII (he was in the East End of London) but it was swiftly removed from the school songbook as the cold war kicked in.

Delighted that you have written this down; it is the only reference to this song anywhere.