Who’s this man with a long scraggly beard? / His expression is anguished and weird. / Some, at court, find him sexy. / They say he cured Alexei, / earning just enough “clout” to be feared. /// This “mad” mystic and monk called Rasputin, / has tsarina in thrall, no disputin’. / So some nobles decide / he be fed cyanide, / and when that doesn’t work, they start shootin’. /// This was one very hard to kill Russian; / shot and drowned and a nasty concussion. / Thus ‘twas Grigori’s fate / to be victim of hate. / Yet, to History, what repercussion?
Who’s this man with a long scraggly beard? / His expression is anguished and weird. / Some, at court, find him sexy. / They say he cured Alexei, / earning just enough “clout” to be feared. /// This “mad” mystic and monk called Rasputin, / has tsarina in thrall, no disputin’. / So some nobles decide / he be fed cyanide, / and when that doesn’t work, they start shootin’. /// This was one very hard to kill Russian; / shot and drowned and a nasty concussion. / Thus ‘twas Grigori’s fate / to be victim of hate. / Yet, to History, what repercussion?