Why should I be branded
a crim and a vandal
When anti-Semite
is a much better handle?

Though under the law
they’re officially villains
They’ve got the support
of fanatical millions.

I made up my mind,
someone’s ripe for a bruising,
But what’s a Semite?
This could all get confusing.

What if they’re all right
and behave as they ought to -
And what if through them
I get into hot water?

My friend who’s the alkie
you see down the grocer’s
Said they’re simply Jews;
he’s a teacher, he knows stuff;

So, brothers, the outlook
could not be much brighter;
I’ve no need to worry,
my heart feels much lighter.

I fought it a long time -
I’ve pure admiration
For Albert Einstein,
who belongs to that nation;

You’ve got to forgive me,
but this made me think on;
How should I relate then
to Abraham Lincoln?

Among them there’s Kapler,
imprisoned by Stalin,
And my favourite comic,
the great Charlie Chaplin,

My friend Rabinovich,
the victims of fascists -
And let’s not forget
the original Marxist.

We’d just done a job
when that drunk said to sway me
They suck up the blood
of our Christian babies;

And once in the bar
the boys said, so I know now,
They crucified God -
but that’s ages ago now.

They chase after blood
till it makes them demented;
The elephant here
in the zoo was tormented!

And I know they stole
from the people, the bastards,
The harvest that all
the past year would have lasted!

Round Kazan and Kurska
along where the tracks are
They live like they’re gods
in their fabulous dachas.

I’ll rob and I’ll use
all the strength I can muster;
I’m beating up Yids
and I’m rescuing Russia!