* repeat line in 3rd person G-P-U is pronounced "gay pay you" G D From then till now I've had no peace When I was a lad in nineteen-six My steps have been dogged by the secret police D G Denounced the opposition time and again I joined a band of bolsheviks Denounced the opposition with tounge and pen G D * I read the manifesto and Das Kapital And my denunciation had a ring so true A7 D7 That now I'm in the prisons of the G-P-U And I even learned to sing the internationale * * (example: And he even learned to sing the internationale) G Now diversionists all, wherever you may be And I sang that song with a ring so true If you want to do as well as me C D (G) Confess to revolution and espionage That now I'm in the prisons of the G-P-U To wrecking railroads and sabotage * * Adhere to the line of Lenin, too When Lenin and his boys the insurrection made And you'll end up in the prisons of the G-P-U I found myself on the barricade * On Kerensky's troops I turned my gun And I didn't stop shooting till the reds had won * And I fired that gun with an aim so true That now I'm in the prisons of th G-P-U * When NEP was started and Lenin died I found myself on Trotsky's side All went well till twenty-eight And then I was forced to capitulate * And my capitulation had a ring so true That now I'm in the prisons of the G-P-U *