| Lyrics: | RED BOOGIE BLUES
Jimmie was a maritime worker
He worked night and day
Workers
at his
Side were unhappy,
Needed higher pay.
The bosses of the ships said "No
--
You ain't a-gonna get more dough."
So Jimmy and Johnny and Maritime Mike,
Very
calmly went out on a Maritime Strike
That began it
Man it
began,--
"You're a Red," cried reporters and the filthy press
"You're a Red," cried
the bosses who began the mess,
And Jimmy unen-lighten'd
Was so very, very
frightened
That he ran like a snail with a whale on his tail
He got the red
boogie,
The red red boogie,
The red boogie blues
When Jim pulled into Frisco
harbor
He went ashore to see his barber
His hair was never cut (no, no)
'Cause the
guy went off his nut (yes, yes)
When he spied the red on the barber pole
The Red,Red
boogie man had taken his toll
The ship weighed anchor at Havana
The night was hot
and so was Anna,
His passion knew no bounds
'Til her hat fell to the ground,
And he
fainted away 'cause her hair was red,
The Red, Red boogie man was under his bed.
"You're a
red," cried the radio -- F. D. R.
You're Red if you love the Russian Caviar,
Though facts
and figures show it jumpin'
Jimmy didn't know it,
You're a red in the eyes of the guys
with the dough,
They got the Red Boogie, the Red, Red Boogie,
The Red boogie
blues.
Jimmy boy was patriotic
Till one day he got psychotic,
He had a crying
jag while saluting our flag,
While he gazed in a daze at the red, red stripe,
The Red, Red
boogie man had played on his pipe.
Came the dawn and Jim was shaving
Lather up and
whiskers waving
The blood began to drip when Jimmy cut his lip
And he died when spied that
his blood was red,
The Red, Red boogie man was one jerk ahead
You're a red if you
wanna kill the K. K. K.
You're a red if you wanna see a better day
So don't start caring
if they wave a red herring
'Cause if you think Franco stinks you're a red
An' if you hate
all the finks you're a red
And if you criticize Truman 'cause he acts inhuman
You're a
red, red, red, red.
You're not alone in the fight, don't you see?
You're in the right in
the best company
So don't start caring if they wave a red herring
It's the Red boogie,the
Red, Red boogie,
We're gonna kill that Boogie Man!
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