Tell us your favorite "bird" song - Freeper Canteen - 17 April 2015

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[AZamericonnie]

Favorite "Bird" Songs

*Video*

Where Eagles Dare - Iron Maiden


It's snowing outside the rumbling sound
of engines roar in the night,
The mission is near the confident men
are waiting to drop from the sky.

The Blizzard goes on but still they must fly
No one should go where eagles dare.

Bavarian alps that lay all around
they seem to stare from below,
The enemy lines a long time passed
are lying deep in the snow.

Into the night they fall through the sky
No one should fly where eagles dare.

They're closing in the fortress is near
it's standing high in the sky,
The cable car's the only way in
it's really impossible to climb.

They make their way but maybe too late
They've got to try to save the day.

The panicking cries the roaring of guns
are echoing all round the valley,
The mission complete they make to escape
away from the Eagles Nest.

They dared to go where no one would try
they chose to fly where eagles dare.



*Video*

When The Eagle Cries - Iced Earth

Another day, just like any other
Out of the blue, it turned to horror
How could they? Why would they?
The innocents suffered hell's inferno
An senseless act that goes unforgotten
How could they? They will pay

When the eagle cries
When the eagle cries
When the eagle cries
When the eagle cries
When the eagle cries

Out of the ashes came a tempted vengeance
But we are focused, we seek redemption
We are free, we'll stay free
All they've done, is make us stronger
The sleeping giant, is asleep no longer
If need be, we'll die free

When the eagle cries
(Blood will flow)
When the eagle cries
(For freedom's fight)

When the eagle cries
(We love us all)
When the eagle cries
(We'll sacrifice)
When the eagle cries

When the eagle cries
(Blood will flow)
When the eagle cries
(For freedom's fight)

When the eagle cries
(We love us all)
When the eagle cries
(We'll sacrifice)
When the eagle cries

[AnAmericanMother]

There’s a real morbid streak in German folklore. Even the Scandinavians don’t have it as badly (and you’d think what with long winters and trolls that look like pretty ladies . . . )

[Publius]

If you look at German history during the Thirty Years War (1618-48), you’ll understand why.

[smalltownslick]

Thanks!!

I made a mistake, though, this beautiful Jack Scott song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UouAcaM0—U

[Michael.SF.]

Thank you!

Wishing you all the best as well!

[AnAmericanMother]

Eh, the French have just as much Debatable Ground and conflict from the Hundred Years War as the Germans in the Thirty (and they weren't even one country until Bismarck - Holy Roman Empire doesn't count).

Must be something in the German temperament - a fatalism combined with unhealthy interest in the supernatural. It's in Grimm's Tales as well (the ones that never get published in the collections for children - but my kids loved them. They wanted the story about the naughty child who wouldn't lie quiet in his grave OVER and OVER again. Their dad is more German than I am, but there's some on our side.)

I think it's more prevalent in the North than in the South - the Bavarians I find much easier to understand.