Russian Bride
Words and Music by Joe Bolinger

 

They said surely she’ll take you for everything you got. 
I said don’t worry cause I ain’t got a lot.
Cept this houndog and this truck
Some swampland and my son
Found her 2 A.M. on ComradeWife.com
She wrote that she liked movies and would make an excellent mom.
She liked dancing, she liked sex.
And American cigarrettes. 

My Russian bride, my Russian bride,
It’s a matter of life, not a matter of pride.
When you get here to the American side.
You will be my Russian bride. 

  I sent her an email saying I liked movies too.
& I could go for dancing, sometimes, when my chores were through.
And to be honest with you maam
We could use a lady’s hand around here. 
My son raised an eyebrow.  Dad, she’s not weird is she?
Does she know about baseball and how ornery I can be? 
Son, I don’t know.
But she’s pretty don’t you think so? 

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  Got her from the airport, and she became my wife.
Just another Hoosier girl with an accent that I liked.
She helped me raise my son.
She loved him and still does.
She had skin like a Moscow snow
On the Kremlin’s spires and Red Square down below.
How’d it go?  You’d be surprised.
I’d swear there was love in her eyes sometimes. 

Maybe I was her husband, maybe I was her host.
But we had 15 years together, and that’s better than most.
Yeah, they were right, we got divorced. 
But some things just run their course. 

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