Your favorite WW1 or WW2 song.

[rusina]

As the title says, post your favorite WW1 or WW2 song, and if possible provide a translation for non-english songs.

My favorite: Jääkärimarssi



And translation

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Deep is our blow, our wrath invincible, we have no mercy, no homeland. Our whole happiness is at the tip of our swords, our hearts may not give in. Our war cry rings, enchanting the country, which is severing its chains. Our defiance may not tire, until the people of Finland are free.

When lowered with despair were heads of the other citizens, the country, we Jägers still believed. There was a dark night in the heart, a thousands pains, but one thought proud, holy: We shall rise as the revenge of Kullervo, it is sweet to pass the fates of war. A new tale of Finland is to be born, it grows, it rushes, it wins.

Häme, Karelia, shores and lands of Viena, one great is Finland´s reign. Its ideology can´t be driven by brute force, away from beneath the northern sky. Its Lion Flag is carried by strong hands of Jägers, Over thunderous, gory fields towards the coast of rising Finland.

[Nikos]

It's a long Way to Tipperary.

American Version


Original Version


Lili Marlene

[Romano-Dacis]

The March of the Romanian Mountain Hunters: a kick-ass song for a kick-ass unit. At 0:32 it gets into my favorite part.

[Nikos]

"Παιδιά της Ελλάδος Παιδιά"

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"Wondering in the streets,
the mothers seek their children,
who vouched for victory,
when they left them
at the train station.

Yet, for those who are gone,
and have found glory,
mourning is inappropriate
let us be joyful for them.

Chorus:
Ye, children of Greece,
who fight a harsh war
on the mountains,
we pray to the sweet Virgin,
for your safe return.

I say to the women who love
and wake at their thought
and breathe a sigh,
that the bitterness of parting
and the quiver
are incompatible with the honest Greek women.

Ye girls of Zalongon,
city-girls or village-girls
though we might hurt,
let us say with pride like the Souli women

Chorus:
Ye, children of Greece,
who fight a harsh war
on the mountains,
we pray to the sweet Virgin,
for your safe return.

With the victory laurels,
we're waiting for your return,
children".

[boerekovic]

The ones posted are most popular but rightfully so, but these are cool too:

Es war ein Edelweiß! Ein -bum- kleines Edelweiß!

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La Sagra Di Guarabub, really gives you the image of romanticized desert warfare

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Not bad either, the Radetzkymarch

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And for World war I, a turkish folk song about the battle of Galipolli.

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...and they say wargames dont teach you anything.

@Rusina, wtf, do they have Anti-Tank lahtis on their backs? (or any other AT rifle for that matter)

I always thought they had the m31 Suomi or whatever it was with them.

[OccamR]

Has to be the Colonel Bogey March.


Or performed:

[conon394]

We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn

[Bill Kaulitz]

[SonOfCrusader76]

What exactly are you on? First, you say that you admire Hitler, and then you choose a song of the Waffen SS as your favourite song of WW2??

@Rusina: What's with your Avatar?

[Applesmack]

What exactly are you on? First, you say that you admire Hitler, and then you choose a song of the Waffen SS as your favourite song of WW2??

Well it actually isn't that bad of a song This German Army march is a good one too:

@Rusina: What's with your Avatar?

Finnish Air Force. Look at the sig.

[Bill Kaulitz]

What exactly are you on? First, you say that you admire Hitler, and then you choose a song of the Waffen SS as your favourite song of WW2??

As a German I'm I not allowed to admire a part of our nations great history?

[Applesmack]

As a German Nazi I'm I not allowed to admire a part of our nations great history?

Fixed

[Bill Kaulitz]

Fixed

I was born in Leipzig too German parents and that makes me German
surprising isn't it?

[Romano-Dacis]

A real classic in Romania, "Treceţi Batalioane Române Carpaţii!" - "Cross the Carpathians, Romanian Batallions!" about the 1st world war.

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Romanian battalions cross the Carpathians !
Wearing leaves and flowers with your weapons
Triumph awaits us, our brothers also await us
With their heart at the mountain crossings.

Ardealul, Ardealul, Ardealul awaits us
The hope lays only with us
Embrace your parents and brothers, child
And then let's go to war.

Forward, forward, toward the great union
The unjust border we shall crush
Let's cross the Carpathians, we need Ardeal
Even if it were to bury ourselves alive.

With swords we made the union in our hearts
Towards Alba we were all heading,
All the country's men signed the Union
The will of a whole nation !

We were all Romanian regiments
Moldova, Muntenia, Ardeal
The natural unity with the Motherland
Was our most just ideal.

[Romano-Dacis]

So a person has a war veteran in the family who they would rather not disown because they fought for what they believed was the right thing to do but today is considered morally bad, what exactly is the problem? You're all acting as if you've run into Hitler's grandson, which as a Russian should not disturb you either since Orthodox Christians don't believe in transmission of sin through the generations.

Now can we please get back to enjoying the music which inspired countless numbers of people to throw themselves in perillous situations?

[Player44]

World War I?
Paschendale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c20-fm_WNew

World War 2?
The Longest Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSJ8rDlBZ_I

[Ahlerich]

ich hat einen kameraden
unter der laterne or was it called lilly marlen? very sad wartime song

if any of you checked out the new red orchestra add on - its the song playing in the intro.

i am at work so i cant bother finding youtube links. find it yourself. but i guess if u dont understand the lyrics its pointless

[Viking Prince]

My favorite is probably "Over There" by Cohan.

A list if you are interested:
http://nfo.net/usa/ww1.html

You have made me want to watch "Yankee Doodle Dandy" with Cagney or Irving Berlin's "This is the Army"

My sweetie will blame you guys this weekend!

[Nissedruva]

Charlie and his Orchestra - they may have lost the war but dam these Nazis could really swing

Goody Good



I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams

[Terantor]

Charlie and his Orchestra - they may have lost the war but dam these Nazis could really swing

Goody Good



I've Got A Pocketful Of Dreams

If this is really swing...wasn't it forbidden in Germany?