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It's my pleasure to tell
these fine sailors
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that Catherine,
Empress of all the Russias,
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in celebration of
the Franco-Russian alliance...
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has come to review the troops
of the Moulin Rouge.
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So we've rallied our troupe
to honor her.
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Catherine's been dead a century,
you'll say.
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But we here at the Moulin Rouge
attach no importance to such details.
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Catherine the Great
had a hearty appetite
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Her mouth began to water
when a real man came in sight
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To the strains of balalaikas
there was a scuffling midst begonias
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But if passion ran colder, it was
"Throw him in the Volga!"
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Our stalwart grenadiers
are on the march
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Now the ladies applaud
their bayonet charge
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But as Queen Hortensia remarked
as a palace ball progressed
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"In their uniforms so vast
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One has to guess the rest"
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Long live the empress!