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The Bolsheviki Man

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mardi 21 février 2006 [n° 1076]

Look Out For The Bolsheviki Man

image : The Lester S Levy sheet music collection


Look out for the Bolcheviki Man

Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words and Music By Irving Berlin 1.
Publication: New York: T.B. Harms, 1919.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Far across the ocean blue there’s a dang’rous boogy boo
First Line of Chorus: Look out for the Bolsheviki man You can tell him any place
Performer: F. Ziegfeld Jr.’s 13th Annual Production Ziegfelf Follies 1919. Produced at the New Amsterdam Theatre N.Y.
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Irving Berlin

Irvin Berlin’s pro-democracy, pro-U.S. worldview, it’s no surprise that he was one of the first popular artists to skewer the new Soviet Socialist Republic. He used his kicker to warn Americans, “Look Out for the Bolsheviki Man” 2 :

To the speeches that he makes
Tie a little can;
He hasn’t got a single sou,
And he wants to share it all with you. . . .

In case anyone missed the point, Berlin followed with “The Revolutionary Rag” 3 :

That Revolutionary Rag
‘Twas made across the sea
By a tricky slicky
Bolsheviki
Run with your little money bag
Or else they’ll steal it away,
Wheel it away,
As they go raving,
Madly waving
That Revolutionary Rag

It’s not a melody,
It’s a crimson flag.
All the royalties
Across the seas
Shake in their BVDs
When they see That Revolutionary Rag. . . .


The Americanization of Irving Berlin par Stefan Kanfer

God Bless America :

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Performed by Berlin, Irving
From Irving Sings Berlin (Koch International 3-7410-2, 2001)
Recorded 1939, NBC Studios*

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  1. Irving Berlin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    The Music of Irving Berlin The Dean of American Songwriters     parlorsongs.com [back]

  2. Bolsheviki, transIated literally, means “those in the majority.” Their less violent opponents, outvoted at the Congress of 1903, became known as Menshiviki, or “those in the minority.” [back]
  3. Lullaby of Tin Pan Alley American Heritage Magazine, The ceaseless clatter of cheap pianos from a mid-Manhattan side street was once music to all America by Ben Yagoda [back]
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