Matrosenlied (Heute wollen wir ein Liedchen singen...)

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Matrosenlied (Heute wollen wir ein Liedchen singen...)

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Post by JLEES » 26 May 2004, 00:32

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Hello,
I think this postcard is a song about Günther Prien, the noted U-Boat commander who sank the Royal Oak. Does anyone know what this card says?
James

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Post by Johnny » 26 May 2004, 01:15

The picture is too small for me to be able to read it properly. From the words I can make out it goes something like: Today we want to sing a little song ... give me your hand ... because we're going, because we're going, we're going towards England. The flag flaps on the mast, she shows the power of our Reich... /J


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Post by JLEES » 28 May 2004, 21:01

I didn't know that the author, Hermann Löns, lived from 1866-1914. Was the song "Denn wir fahren gegen Engeland!" written during the Great War?
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Post by Erich-SA » 29 Aug 2004, 08:44

This is one of the most famous war songs--it was originally written in WWI. In WWII, Herms Niel (a well known composer of miltary and popular songs) wrote a new melody for the words, and it's available on many tapes and cds. It was a naval song, not about U Boats, but about sailing against England in general.
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Post by Ivan Ž. » 19 Sep 2005, 23:37

Several composers wrote music for this song before Niel (such as Jäkel, Ramrath and so on). This particular version of the lyrics, although published during WWII, is NOT the one used in the WWII composition (Niel's), but a rarer older variant. In Niel's composition there's "ein Liedlein singen" (while in this one there's "Liedchen") and "Gib mir deine Hand" (in this one there's "Reich' mir deine Hand").

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