Difficult and Dangerous Times - Chess In Concert

Ensemble:

No one can deny that these are difficult times

No one can deny that these are difficult times

Molokov:

Ms. Vassey

Florence:

Mr. Molokov

Ensemble:

It’s the U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.

Yet we more or less are

No one can deny that these are difficult times

To our credit, putting all that aside

We have swallowed our pride

These are very dangerous and difficult times!

Florence:

It really doesn’t matter who comes out on top

Molokov:

Who gets the chop

Ensemble:

No-one's way of life is threatened by a flop

But we’re gonna smash their bastards!

Make him want to change his name

Take him to the cleaners and devastate him

Wipe him up, humilate him

We don’t want the whole world saying

«They can’t even win a game»

Walter:

We have never reckoned on coming second

Molokov:

There’s no use in losing

It’s the red flag up against stars and stripes

But we’re peace loving types.

Ensemble:

No one can deny that these are difficult times

Florence:

It’s a sweet, hail-fellow, well-met affair

Walter:

For both eagle and bear

Ensemble:

These are very dangerous and difficult times

Molokov:

For those who say that this is not a friendly clash

Don’t be so rash

I assure you comrades, that is balderdash

Ensemble:

What a load of whinging peasants!

Thinking they win, they can’t!

What an exhibition of self-delusion

This one’s a foregone conclusion

But enough of all this beating

Round the bushes of detente

We intend to collar the Yankee dollar

We will smash them

Trash them.

Molokov:

How good to feel that as this great event begins

It underpins

Our quest for peace--

The bonds of common interest

Of East and West.

All:

As long as our man wins.

As long as our man wins.