The tune of "Bedelia," which George Lauri introduced in "Tapu," is now being whistled by every "dvornik" in Moscow. An ingenious Russian named Mirsky, being at a loss for music for a patriotic song, adopted the popular melody which has "caught on." The music is nightly played in the j Grand restaurant, and ultra-patriotic j diners sometimes rise and chant the Muscovite version, the first verse ,of which runs as follows: "Japanese, we're going to lick you. Japanese, 0, pig-tailed dwarfs! Get you back to your geishas, O cowards! Leave fighting to men!"
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 202, 24 August 1904, Page 3
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