Difficult and Dangerous Times lyrics

[MOLOKOV & DIPLOMATS]

No one can deny that these are difficult times

No one can deny that these are difficult times

[MOLOKOV, spoken]

Miss Vassy

[FLORENCE, spoken]

Mr. Molokov

[SOVIET DIPLOMATS]

It's the U.S. versus U.S.S.R

Yet we more or less are

[AMERICAN DIPLOMATS]

No one can deny that these are difficult times

[SOVIET DIPLOMATS]

To our credit putting all that aside

We have swallowed our pride

[AMERICAN DIPLOMATS]

These are very dangerous and difficult times

[FLORENCE]

It really doesn't matter

Who comes on top

[MOLOKOV]

Who gets the chop

[MOLOKOV & DIPLOMATS]

No one's way of life is threatened

By a flop!

But we're going to smash that bastard

Make him wanna change his name

Take him to the cleaners and devastate him

Wipe him out, humiliate 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

[DIPLOMATS]

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

[DIPLOMATS]

These are very dangerous and difficult times

[MOLOKOV]

For those that say that

This is not a friendly clash

Don't be so rash

I assure you, comrades

That is balderdash

[MOLOKOV & DIPLOMATS]

What a load of whingeing peasants!

Thinking they can win--they can't!

What an exhibition of self-delusion

This one's a forgone conclusion

[MOLOKOV & SOVIET DIPLOMATS]

But enough of all this beating

Round the bushes of detente

We intend to collar the Yankee dollar

We shall thrash them!

[ALL]

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!

• Artist:Chess (musical)
• Album:Chess In Concert (2008 Live)