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The old hymns are resurrected. Sometimes, depending on who sings them, they change their meaning over time just like a good mature wine and improves its flavor. The most toned and versioned song of World War II was Lili Marlene . If Lale Andersen's blonde voice sang it, she could act as a soundtrack to invade Russia. If the German actress Marlene Dietrich interpreted it in English, the public was just the opposite: it was sung by allied soldiers while prohibited by Joseph Goebbles, Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich. Even the British secret service created a sadder version, where the military who stars in it is tired of the war and wants to return to his beloved . It was broadcast in German by the BBC in the confidence that it would demoralize the enemy troops. They have even made movies with the story of the song. The best known was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, titled with the name of the melody and released in 1981.
Then we said goodbye
I would have been happy with you
With you, Lili Marlene
This 2019 the characters of the series The House of Paper have resurrected an old song of uncertain origin but loaded with History: Bella Ciao, a partisan hymn whose lyrics have also undergone several evolutions until reaching our days, where you can listen to jazz rhythm , house or even techno . All armies need a hymn to go to the battlefield and the Italians found theirs in this old melody of the beginning of the century. The Nazi enemy was formidable, so the letter had to allude to something powerful: love. Whether it comes from a Jew from New York or from the songs of the rice fields in the Po River valley, someone had to recover that Bella Ciao from 1943 to 45 to put resistance music against Hitler and Mussolini and turn it into a protest song. In 1968 the students of Paris sang it again, since they had heard her sing to Yves Montand.
One morning i woke up
Goodbye, beautiful, goodbye, beautiful, goodbye, beautiful, goodbye, goodbye
One morning i woke up
And I met the invader
While Yankee soldiers landing in Normandy singing the classic Glory glory hallelujah , a song published in 1862, the French resistance needed a hymn to unite their Marseillaise in the war effort . "Le chant des partisans", written by Russian exile Anna Betulinskaya (Anna Marly), joined the troops of Free France and put her melody at the service of the cause. The writers Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon created a letter to the height and began to whistle it in the long walks through the forests, where they hid after sabotaging the German occupants. The manuscript of the song was declared a French Historical Monument in 2006. Anna Marly holds the Legion of Honor. Today is still singing in representation of resistance.
Hello saboteur, be careful with your load, dynamite ...
It is we who break the bars of the prison, for our brothers,
The hate in our heels, and the hunger that drives us, the misery.
On the eastern front, the Soviets also put all their machinery to achieve some hymn that could be easily remembered and sung from trench to trench. The result was Katiusha , a tune about a girl who longs for her boyfriend , recruited into the army and charged with great drama. It was performed by the famous folk singer Lidia Ruslánova, although the best known versions respond to the great Russian military choirs. It became so popular throughout the front that the soldiers baptized with the name of the song the fearsome rocket launchers BM-8, BM-13 and BM-31 , a more psychological weapon that needs its thunderous sound. As a curiosity, the song liked the Spanish soldiers of the Blue Division deployed in Russia so much that they sang it translated into Spanish.
May he remember the humble girl,
I heard how she sings
may he defend the homeland,
That love, Katiusha will keep.
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