Tribute/Ehrung/Homenaje/дань

Salome (for Dean Reed)

Steve Bush (2002)

Here comes Salome with Kennedy's head
Who said 'I am a doughnut'
I wish I was dead

Left in the Alexanderplatz
A flag trodden under
By democrats

The East is Red
The West is blue
Blue for the Cold-War love of you
Waiting for freedom
Of a different hue
That Uncle Sam Can't give to you

Once so near and yet so far
Close to heaven's
A hell of a liar

Out of sweetness comes the stench
Of hands that stretch
The fist to clench

The East is Red
The West is blue
Blue for the Cold-War love of you
Waiting for freedom
Of a different hue
That Uncle Sam Can't give to you

The East is blue and in the red
All for the love of blood and bread
That's what the yankee doughnut said
Two steps backwards and straight ahead...

Here comes Salome with Kennedy's head
Who said 'I am a doughnut'
And now he's dead

Drunk in the Alexanderplatz
With two fig rolls
And an Astrakhan hat

The East is Red
The West is blue
Blue for the Cold-War love of you
Waiting for freedom
Of a different hue
That Uncle Sam Can't give to you...

Steve Bush

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I'm a Dean Reed fan from England. His records are hard to get in the UK, but I have some. What a remarkable man. I have recorded a tribute song to him on my 'Blossom Freak' album called 'Salome (for Dean Reed)'. I'm so glad his memory lives on in Germany and I hope that the movie does him justice.

Steve Bush, 29.12.2006