Quarter step down                                        
In between the verses you play the D
with an alternating bass, D then D/A

\ means run down D C# B A
/ means run up A B C# D

D           A          D              A
As I walked out on the streets of Old Moscow            But brief are the moments of glory in Russia
   D               A         \          A7              I practiced some purging, and that much I know
As I strolled in a-Moscow one late afternoon            When wheat crops were failing, and Mao got snooty
/ D             A       D            A                  The word was passed downward: Nikita must go
I spied a round figure, wrapped in a fur coat           
D            A                /           D             At the twentieth congress, when I toppled Stalin
Wrapped in a fur coat, with a face like a moon          The cheers, the ovations, purveyed at the whole
                                                        A decade has passed and now those who had praised me
He said, by your camera I see you're American           Are sending up Sputniks and I'm nothing at all
So come let us sit down and sip a glass tea             
My name is Nikita, and I once thought I'd bury you      He hung his head lowly and shook my hand slowly
Instead my old comrades are burying me                  And said go and tell them I'm on my last legs
                                                        I've said to others, and now these words haunt me
Nikita Sergeyvitch! I cried with emotion                You can't make an omelette without breaking the eggs!
Nikita, old pal, what happened to you?                  
How thin his smile as he sadly responded                As I walked out on the streets of Old Moscow
You'll hear it but first let me take off one shoe       As I strolled in a-Moscow one late afternoon
                                                        I spied a round figure, wrapped in a fur coat
'Twas once in Crimea, I used to go swimming             Wrapped in a fur coat, with a face like a moon                 
With Tito I hunted the deer and wild boar
Badminton with Lippmann and golf at camp david?
Yes those were the days and I know they're no more

Ah yes, in the Kremlin, I used to give orders
To Breznev, Kosygin and all in that pack
My carpets were cleaned every day by Mikolin
Shelepin took charge of my hotline to Jack