Companion song to "Rodia, Rodia". Yes, this is a female vocal but the character (Rodia) is actually a guy with a very guilty conscience. Recorded in 1980 and cleaned up a bit.
acoustic
vocal
Story behind the song
Crime and punishment.
Lyrics
Sonia, Sonia, we are not going to go to Siberia.
Sonia, Sonia, your query makes me weary, weary, wearier.
It's ninety below in the shade out there,
sixty in the sun.
We're not gonna go and we don't have to so long as
they don't know I'm the one.
Sonia, Sonia, we are not going to go to prison.
Sonia, Sonia, I'm not going to prison.
It's cold and it's dank in a dungeon cell,
and worse, they'll shave my head.
It's rags for your clothes and slop for your food and
nothing for your head.
Sonia, Sonia, I refuse to go down to the station.
Sonia, Sonia, I don't deserve incarceration.
I really don't think what I did was so wrong.
Smashed an old biddy, she was a louse.
You want me to go like a sheep to the kill --
but I am a man not a mouse!
Sonia, Sonia, I'm right so get off of my tail.
Sonia, Sonia, I will not turn myself into jail.
It may be a crime but I won't do the time.
I was justified socially.
Some of us know what is best for our world,
and one of us is me!
No, I'm not guilty, I'm really not guilty.
I don't feel badly at all.
I'm trying, of course, to work up remorse,
but the feeling won't answer the call.
Sonia, Sonia, guess what?
We're going to Siberia.