上大学时,美国老师在"音乐欣赏会"上给我们放了好些八十年代流行的歌曲,包括卡伦卡彭特兄妹的歌,并打印出歌词供欣赏。其中有一首听起来挺诡秘有趣,带有异域情调,同时具有西方现代流行音乐的节奏感。但美国老师很神秘地拒绝提供歌词,也不予解释歌词内容。
多年以后,我才找到“拉斯普京“的歌词,原来歌中唱的是一个俄罗斯声色犬马的神秘历史故事。难怪美国老师当时环顾左右而言它,大概是怕我们这些“纯洁”的中国大学生被“精神污染”了。可有意思的是,来美国后, 却发现不少美国历史老师在给高中生上俄国历史课时,竟会在堂上播放这首歌作为辅助“教材”, 寓教于乐。
拉斯普京(Grigory Rasputin)人称魔僧(Mad Monk),是十九世纪俄国皇帝尼古拉二世当政时的传奇人物。他本是一名农民,因为能够预言及行神蹟的伎俩,因此得到笃信神秘力量的沙皇及皇后赏识。之后更为患上“血友病”的太子医治,而声名大噪! 1915年,太子突然流鼻血,病情恶化,但是当拉斯普丁一出现,太子就奇迹似的好了。
患血友病的太子
皇后

拉斯普京最後被扔入涅瓦河的一个冰窟窿中,屍体於次日被发现。法医验屍结果证明他是溺水而死的,但却在冰水中存活了8分钟之久,死後阴茎遭人割除。拉斯普京的屍体经过防腐处理後,亚历山德拉皇后为他修建了地下墓穴,并计划在墓穴上修建修道院。二月革命後,拉斯普京的屍体被士兵发现,运到彼得格勒游街示众,再将屍体焚毁。
焚烧拉斯普京的屍体时,目击者称,敛放其屍体的棺材已经被熔毁,但拉斯普京的遗体却完好如初,甚至从棺材里坐了起来,眼睛也睁开了。士兵只好不断向屍体上泼洒煤油,10个小时後才将其烧为灰烬。
他屍体被焚毁後,还有许多贵族妇女变装来到其焚屍地拾取灰烬,作为圣物崇拜。据传闻,拉斯普京喜欢收集跟他发生过性关系的处女的头发。 1977年列宁格勒市政府拆除其居住过的楼房时,在花园里发现了许多装有女人头发的箱子。
"上帝非常喜欢我们忏悔,但忏悔之前让我们先犯下罪恶吧!"拉斯普京说过。


歌词
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstacy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire
RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
He ruled the Russian land and never mind the czar
But the kasachok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she'd heard the things he'd done
She believed he was a holy healer
Who would heal her son
(Spoken:)
But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger
for power became known to more and more people,
the demands to do something about this outrageous
man became louder and louder.
"This man's just got to go!" declared his enemies
But the ladies begged "Don't you try to do it, please"
No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms
Then one night some men of higher standing
Set a trap, they're not to blame
"Come to visit us" they kept demanding
And he really came
RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
They put some poison into his wine
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
He drank it all and he said "I feel fine"
RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
They didn't quit, they wanted his head
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
And so they shot him till he was dead
(Spoken:) Oh, those Russians...
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