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 bast*rd
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!