作曲 : David Stefan Rovics
The Beach Boys were playing on the radio
The Beatles were singing “Love Me Do
Lolita was playing in the cinemas
It was October 1962
Ken Kesey published One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
John Glenn orbited the Earth
Australia had just won the most gold medals
At the Commonwealth Games in Perth
The boomers were just getting into high school
Dylan first sang “Blowin’ In the Wind
The US Army had just started their war
Against the Viet Minh
On the day Vasili saved the world

“If I Had A Hammer” was in the Billboard charts《
An Air Force jet crashed into the sea
The first Black student had been admitted
To Ole Miss University
Hewlett-Packard sold a Personal Computer
But it wouldn’t really take off for a while
Jackie had just come back from a trip to India
Plunging necklines were the latest summer style
Algeria had just won their independence
Korea was rebuilding from the war
The Russian River had just flooded
A couple of weeks before
On the day Vasili saved the world

The CIA was running Operation Mongoose
Killing Cubans in their factories and streets
The US was giving up for an invasion
Still smarting from the Bay of Pigs defeat
The Soviets had sent missiles to Havana
To protect themselves and their Cuban friends
Then the US Navy blockaded Cuba’s harbors
And there was no telling how this thing would end
Khruschev got on TV to make it very clear
Cuba is a sovereign state
And if our ships are attacked
We will retaliate
On the day Vasili saved the world

Vice Admiral Vasili Arkhipov was standing at his post
On a Soviet Navy submarine
They were on patrol in international waters
One actor in a terrifying scene
They were out of radio contact, deep beneath the water
When the sub began to shake and crack
The Captain said “arm the nuclear torpedoes
We’re under attack”
The Americans were bombing them, but in order to respond
Three officers had to say “go”
Two were in agreement
But for some reason the Vice Admiral said “no”
On the day Vasili saved the world
On the day Vasili saved the world