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Yea, we’re that old. Songs like these still mean something pure and hopeful to us. They move us. The younger generations fighting for a better world will have their songs to be inspired by, but these tunes should never be forgotten. Their message of naive hope still resonates today.
WW2, the great war against the fascist powers, despite the fact that it involved millions of men fighting for capitalist armies, mobilized by a system which was itself the cradle of fascism, was the last war we could call justified. After that, it’s been all downhill. A series of uninterrupted, cynical crimes.—PG
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- “Outside the barracks, by the corner light, I’ll always stand and wait for you at night, We will create a world for two, I’ll wait for you the whole night through, For you, Lili Marleen, For you, Lili Marleen. Bugle tonight don’t play the call to arms, I want another evening with her charms, Then we will say goodbye and part, I’ll always keep you in my heart, With me, Lili Marleen, With me, Lili Marleen…
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“Give me a rose to show how much you care, Tie to the stem a lock of golden hair, Surely tomorrow you’ll feel blue, But then will come a love that’s new, For you, Lili Marleen, For you, Lili Marleen. When we are marching in the mud and cold, And when my pack seems more than I can hold, My love for you renews my might, I’m warm again, my pack is light, It’s you, Lili Marleen, It’s you, Lili Marleen.
Have you ever heard Dietrich sing ‘Where have all the flowers gone?” She knows, she has been there. You hear it in the voice… “If she had nothing more than her voice she could break your heart with it…” Ernest Hemingway For a good part of the war she was on the front line… performing for the allied troops. Some say she was also a spy… It took many years after the war before she could go back to her native germany, where by many she was despised as a traitor. Dietrich had courage, glamor, intelligence and an uncanny sense… Read more »