BoneyM - Rasputin (1978)

BoneyM'in şarkı sözleri ilginçti: Mesela Belfast şarkısında İrlanda iç savaşı, Ma Baker'da bir gangsterin hayatı, Rivers of Babylon'da Yahudilerin Babil sürgünü anlatılır. Rasputin şarkısı, Gregori Efimoviç Rasputin'den bahsetmektedir. Rus tarihindeki bu karanlık şahsiyet hakkında Bkz. http://it.stlawu.edu/ ~rkreuzer/ indv5/rasp.htm Bu şarkı Türkiye'de meşhur olduğunda (sene 1979) reklam cingıllarına bile girdi ve melodisinin Katibim şarkısından (ç)alındığı iddia edildi. Daha sonra Ayna grubu Rasputin şarkısını Dön Bak Aynaya adıyla söyledi (sene 1998) ve bu şarkının bestesinin Kafkasya kökenli olduğu iddia edildi. Gel de çık işin içinden! 1970'lerin ikinci yarısında esen BoneyM rüzgarı, Amerika'da pek revaç bulmadı. Disco müziğin modası geçmeye başlayınca BoneyM de çözüldü gitti. Ne diyorduk? Ha, evet! Sizce müzik nedir? Nereden geldik, nereye gidiyoruz? Ne olacak bizim halimiz?

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago   He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow   Most people looked at him with terror and with fear   But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear   He could preach the bible like a preacher   Full of ecstacy and fire   But he also was the kind of teacher   Women would desire   RA RA RASPUTIN   Lover of the Russian queen   There was a cat that really was gone   RA RA RASPUTIN   Russia's greatest love machine   It was a shame how he carried on   He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar   But the kasachok he danced really wunderbar   In all affairs of state he was the man to please   But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze   For the queen he was no wheeler dealer   Though she'd heard the things he'd done   She believed he was a holy healer   Who would heal her son   RA RA RASPUTIN   Lover of the Russian queen   There was a cat that really was gone   RA RA RASPUTIN   Russia's greatest love machine   It was a shame how he carried on   But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger   for power became known to more and more people,   the demands to do something   about this outrageous man   became louder and louder.   "This man's just got to go!" declared his enemies   But the ladies begged "Don't you try to do it, please"   No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms   Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms   Then one night some men of higher standing   Set a trap, they're not to blame   "Come to visit us" they kept demanding   And he really came   RA RA RASPUTIN   Lover of the Russian queen   They put some poison into his wine   RA RA RASPUTIN   Russia's greatest love machine   He drank it all and he said "I feel fine"   RA RA RASPUTIN   Lover of the Russian queen   They didn't quit, they wanted his head   RA RA RASPUTIN   Russia's greatest love machine   And so they shot him till he was dead   Oh, those Russians... Bu şarkı BoneyM GOLD CD'sinde yer almaktadır.