Leningrad Cowboys ..of North

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^-LENINGRAD COWBOYS-^(1989)*site*

a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the 160-male-member Soviet Red Army Choir with european and american songs

-Lynyrd Skynyrd-Sweet Home Alabama-(1974)
(Total Balalaika Show) (1994)

Big wheels keep on turning
Carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the Southland
I miss Alabamy once again
And I think its a sin, yes

Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

In Birmingham they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Here I come Alabama

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've been known to pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue
Now how about you?

Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet Home Alabama
Lord, I'm coming home to you

Sweet home Alabama
Oh sweet home baby
Where the skies are so blue
And the governor's true
Sweet Home Alabama
Lordy
Lord, I'm coming home to you
Yea, yea Montgomery's got the answer


-Neil Young-Southern Man-(1970)

Southern man better keep your head
Don't forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man

I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Southern man when will you pay them back?
I heard screaming' and bullwhips cracking
How long? How long?

Lily Belle, your hair is golden brown
I've seen your black man coming' round
Swear by God I'm gonna cut him down!
I heard screaming' and bullwhips cracking
How long? How long?

P.S. not too long..In 1979 Birmingham elected Dr. Richard Arrington Jr. as its first African-American mayor.Furthermore,in the late 1970s the governor George Wallace became a born-again Christian, and apologized to black civil rights leaders for his earlier segregationist views, calling these views wrong. He said that while once he sought power and glory, he realized he needed to seek love and forgiveness.

-Полюшко-поле,Polyushko-pole,(Meadowland)
written during the Russian Civil War (1918-1922) and was sung by the Red Army.

The scene is from the Aki Kaurismäki road movie "Leningrad Cowboys go America"(1989)[amazon]..and so the band goes America..as immigrant musicians they close a deal "fifty-fifty" with a barman in Mephis,Tenessee,singing "Rock 'n' Roll Is here to stay" (video-2)

Aki Kaurismaki Celebra Hoje Meio Seculo.O carismático realizador e argumentista finlandês celebra hoje, dia 4 de Abril de 2007, 50 anos de vida(ovimagazine)

"Λέει ότι το φιλμ "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" (από τα πιο δημοφιλή του) είναι "η χειρότερη ταινία στην ιστορία του σινεμά, εκτός εάν υπολογίσουμε και τις ταινίες του Σταλόνε". Κι ακόμη ανησυχεί για το αύριο. "Γιατί θα 'πρεπε οι θεατές να πληρώνουν για να δουν κακές ταινίες, όταν μπορούν να μείνουν σπίτι τους και να δουν τζάμπα κακή τηλεόραση;" Τώρα πού σταματάει η μετριοφροσύνη και πού αρχίζει η αυτογνωσία, η αυτοκριτική, η αυτοειρωνία και, μέσω αυτών, η άποψή του για το μέλλον της 7ης τέχνης, ε αυτό ψάξτε το μόνοι σας".(O Χαρισματικός Ακι Καουρισμάκι)

and Jamaica Reggae style..

Don't tell me everything's all right
Cause I'm happy being miserable
And don't say that its a-okay
I'm so ..happy being miserable
(lyrics),CD-single(2000)