Monday, June 6, 2022

Do Not Forsake Me, Oh, My Dushen'ka - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Do Not Forsake Me, Oh, My Dushen’ka

 

In honor of Dimitri Tiompkin

 

When we learned that a Russian wrote the score for High Noon

And another for John Wayne’s Rio Bravo

It made some of the populist faithful swoon

(Alas that nothing much rhymes with Bravo)

 

Given that Tiompkin was a Russian critter

We’ll just have to cancel John Wayne and Tex Ritter

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