Postwar songs with WW2 references.

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by von Poop, Apr 22, 2011.

  1. sapper

    sapper WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    There is one song that epitomises everything about the battles in Normandy. Sung by the "Little Sparrow"......... J'attendrai ! Never heard now, but just on odd occasion that takes me back to a time long ago. A time when I was nineteen and determined to put the World To rights...A time when all the young men gave their all.
    Bless them
     
  2. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    There is one song that epitomises everything about the battles in Normandy. Sung by the "Little Sparrow"......... J'attendrai ! Never heard now, but just on odd occasion that takes me back to a time long ago. A time when I was nineteen and determined to put the World To rights...A time when all the young men gave their all.
    Bless them

    Hello Sapper this isn't by Little Sparrow but is this the song.

    J Attendrai Lyrics English - Bing Videos
     
  3. Bodston

    Bodston Little Willy

    interesting trilogy

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  4. sapper

    sapper WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Certainly is DEACS Cheers mate great stuff. But OH LORD it does sound so old now
    Thanks Sapper
     
  5. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

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  6. nicks

    nicks Very Senior Member

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    Mike Harding's tribute to his father who lost on operations when his Lancaster was shot down.
     
  7. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

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  8. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

    Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler.
    I guess that counts.
     
  9. jameshr4

    jameshr4 Junior Member

    Black Swan Song by Athelete, which is about the lead singers grandfather Maj John Pott MC who was wounded and captured at Arnhem.
     
  10. Gage

    Gage The Battle of Barking Creek

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  11. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

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  12. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

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  13. Jan7

    Jan7 Senior Member

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    Soldados Alemanes Caídos / Fallen German Soldiers

    In memoriam






    Jan.
     
  14. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

    I think i have seen this before??? some English lyrics would be great:) Also bad acoustic guitar on the recording but now one can help that. Well you can. Nice to sea a song from the German point of view
     
  15. wowtank

    wowtank Very Senior Member

    This is very clever only just work it out after listing for 20 years:huh:

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    Sherrif Fatman started out is business as a granny farmer
    He ws infamous for fifteen minutes
    And he appeared on Panorama
    Then he somehow got on board a Starship Enterprise Allowance Scheme
    With a Prince of Wales Award
    For pushing valium and amphetamines

    Moving Up on Second Base
    With Nicholas Van Whats His Face
    At six foot six
    And 100 Tons
    The undisputed King of the Slums
    With more alias' than Klaus Barbie
    Master Butcher of Leigh on Sea
    Just about to take the stage
    The one and only - hold the front page

    Fatman's got something to sell
    To the Capital's homeless
    A Crossroad's Motel
    For the No Fixed Abodeless
    Where you can live life in style
    If you sleep in a closet
    And if you flash him a smile
    He'll take your teeth as deposit

    There's bats in the belfrey
    The windows are jammed
    The toilet's ain't healthy
    He don't give a damn
    Just chuckles and smiles
    Laughs like a madman
    A born again Rachman
    Here comes Sherrif Fatman

    With his valium, amphetamines
    Sicknotes and his phoney prescriptions
    Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the kitchen
    Dead heads and cracked heads
    Bunk beds and breakfasts
    Wake up you sleepyheads
    Check this

    Moving up on second base
    with Nicholas Van Whatshis face
    At six foot six
    And 100 tons
    The undisputed King of the Slums
    With more alias' than Klaus Barbie
    The Master Butcher of Leigh on Sea
    Just about to take the stage
    The only and only hold the front page
     
  16. DaveB

    DaveB Very Senior Member

    I don't know if this is too tenuous, but how about

    Sympathy for the Devil – by those brash newcomers The Rolling Stones,

    The lyrics focus on atrocities in the history of mankind from Lucifer's point of view, including the trial and death of Jesus Christ ("Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate"), European wars of religion ("I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the Gods they made"),

    the violence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the 1918 massacre of the Romanov family ("I stuck around St. Petersburg when I saw it was a time for a change/Killed the Tsar and his ministers/Anastasia screamed in vain"),

    and World War II ("I rode a tank, held a general's rank when the blitzkrieg raged, and the bodies stank").


    The song was originally written with the line "I shouted out 'Who killed Kennedy?'" After Robert F. Kennedy's death on 6 June 1968, the line was changed to "I shouted out 'Who killed the Kennedys?'"
     
  17. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

  18. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Spanish Civil War related lyrics in this one from 1998.
    Reminds me of driving to & from the maternity ward in our Lada.
    Manic Street Preachers.


     
  19. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

  20. Incredibledisc

    Incredibledisc Well-Known Member

    Very surprised not to see these pop up in this thread...




     
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