The Ballad Of Comrade Enver Hoxha

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When Albania was young the praises were sung
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Of a man with a heart of gold
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And of his bravery and fight against slavery
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A million stories were told
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A man so ideologically
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Correct beyond compare
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Albania he did liberate
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And became a hero there

[Chorus]

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And we'll sing the praises of Enver (Enver)
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Enver, Enver Hoxha
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And we'll sing for his big flounder,
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Tristan is his name

[Verse 2]

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In '44 he won the war
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Against the fascist invading army
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Then he rounded up the revisionist scum
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And turned them into salami
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And then he stood on Albania's crest
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With one mighty sweep of his arm
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He touched every loyal Albanian breast
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When he founded a halibut farm

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]

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And the halibuts grew and Albanians knew
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The land would be ever in peace
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As the annual production ratios
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Of the tractor factories increased
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Comrade Enver went up to the great big
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Power station in the sky
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But he left a glorious legacy
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That no one could deny

[Chorus]

[Verse 4]

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Then the traitor Gorbachev came along
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And the Soviet Union fell
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And glorious Albania was turned into
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Capitalistic hell
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Poverty, starvation wrack the land
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Albanians cry as one,
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"Forgive us Comrade Enver
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For we know not what we've done."

[Chorus]

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And we'll sing the praises of Enver (Enver)
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Enver, Enver Hoxha
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We'll sing for his big flounder
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Tristan is his name
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We'll sing the praises of Enver (Enver)
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Enver, Enver Hoxha
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And we'll sing for his big flounder
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Tristan, Tristan,
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Tristan, Tristan, Tristan is his name
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Enver!