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Do Not Forsake Me, Oh, My Dushen’ka
In honor of Dimitri Tiompkin
When we learned that a Russian wrote the score for High Noon And another for John Wayne’s Rio Bravo It made some of the populist faithful swoon (Alas that nothing much rhymes with Bravo)
Given that Tiompkin was a Russian critter We’ll just have to cancel John Wayne and Tex Ritter