Hmm many since people seem to be interested in "Ich hatt einen Kameraden": Official title: "Der gute Kamerad" (The good comrade/buddy); official Grieving(word?) or funeral Song of the German Military; the only music piece besides the National Anthem where soldiers have to salute - also often played on Ceremonies on "Volkstrauertag" (German Rememberance Day).
Lyics tell of a soldier who laments his "good comrade", just being mortally wounded by a stray bullet/shrapnel. He's just struggling to reach out to the narrator for one last handshake; the narrator is re-loading, however, so the hand-shake remains unanswered, with the narrator promising that he stays his "good comrade" in eternal life.
Quite nationalist militaristic overtones, but pretty normal, I guess, for the time of creation (1825).
P.S.: German/Prussian military music wins out anything anyways. Imo, it's light-years away of anything else, including the USA's Sousa creations... You surely have to cut out the Nazi period and its abuses, of course...
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10-21-2012, 06:21 PM
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