 The Desert Song and the Cold War: The original refrain for The Riff  Song includes the lines: "Ho!/Thats the sound that comes to warn  you/So!/In the night or early morn, you know/If youre The Red  Shadows foe/The Riffs will strike with a blow/That brings you woe!"  In this remake, filmed in the early Fifties at the height of the  Cold War and McCarthyism, the "Red Shadow" sounded uncomfortably  like the Soviet and Chinese communists, so the lyrics were changed  to "If youre El Khobars foe". When Gordon MacRae (qv)  re