Tom Paxton - Dear Diary lyrics

Spoken "I got uh, I got a strange envelope in the mail not too long ago. It was a weird looking thing. It was very old, crinkly kind of manila paper and the writing on it was very faded, almost illegible ink. And when I opened this package dust blew into my face and I found inside this package a ca**et in incredibly decrepid, ancient condition so dried that it was almost impossible to play. It was only by some heroic reclamation efforts by some technicians that we were able to play this ca**et at all, and then we had to get it translated and what I'd like to do for you now is simply a translation of what I found on that ca**et." Dear diary, dear diary, I'm writing these lines The First of September nineteen thirty nine Had lunch with Eva, went to the zoo And oh by the way started World War Two A good day La, la, la Un so to bed Dear diary, dear diary, another day gone Went bowling with Guring and watered the lawn Went to the opera, went to a dance Bombed London, bombed Conventry, rolled across France A good day La, la, la Un so to bed Dear diary, dear diary, to Moscow we go The children all tell me that we shall have snow The hills will be covered, the children will play We're sure to take Stalingrad most any day A good day La, la, la Un so to bed Dear diary, dear diary, the hour is late The Russians are bombing the Chancellery gate The rate things are going they're sure to break in Hello buenos iris vetaze in Berlin A good day Ta, ta, ta Un so to bed Guter nacht