Based on Cyprus 1981

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Ooh ooh ooh…
Na na na na na, na na na na na
Count the number of na na na na na’s
Ooh ooh ooh…
Useful this will be, later you will see
Na na na na na, na na na na na

Erich had mastered the great Marxist charter
He learned it before he turned three
He took all the toys from the neighbourhood boys
And then tried to collectivise me

A youthful protester, in jail he would fester
For eight years a man did decree
He came out of prison, a Communist vision
A gap to fill in SED

Hone-hone-hone
Hone-hone-hone
Hone-hone-honecker
He was very famous
Not an ignoramus
Ruling over GDR

Hone-hone-hone
Hone-hone-hone
Hone-hone-honecker
The chairman of the state
For thirteen years his fate
To be the comrades’ superstar

Ooh ooh ooh….
Na na na na na, Vorwärts immer da
Na na na na na, Rückwärts nimmer da

Ooh ooh ooh….den
Sozialismus in seinem Lauf da
hält weder Ochs noch Esel auf na na

He travelled to Finland, to Greece and to China
Oh is this a panda I see?
But trouble was brewing
His people were queueing
For most every necessity

Hone-hone-hone
Hone-hone-hone
Hone-hone-honecker
Principal defender
Of the red agenda
Terribly Teutonic, ja

Once he met with Brezhnev
Leo played his bass clef
Hone-hone-honecker
One fraternal kiss, so
Not a lover’s tryst, no
Simply a platonic ‘mwah’

Ooh ooh ooh….
Na na na na na, na na na na na
JA JA DDR, JA JA DDR

When they said he must go
He went off to Moscow
Such a left-wing tonic, ah!
But they didn’t want him
Sent him back to Berlin
Really quite ironic, ah!

Then he was so ill he
Flew away to Chile
Playing the harmonica
Where he died of cancer
Through our necromancer
He says vote for Honecker!
Honecker!