Snoopy vs. the Red Baron

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Snoopy vs The Red Baron

Achtung, jetz wir ssingen ssusammen die Geschichte over den schweinkopfigen Hund und dem lieben Red Baron ... 
 
 

After the turn of the century
In the clear blue skies over Germany
Came a roar and a thunder man had never heard
Like the screaming sound of a big war bird

Up in the sky, a man in a plane
Baron von Richthofen was his name
Eighty men tried, and eighty men died
Now they're buried together in the countryside
 

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Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The Bloody Red Baron was running up the score
Eighty men died trying to end that spree
Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany


In the nick of time, a hero arose
A funny-looking dog with a big black nose
He flew into the sky to seek revenge
But the Baron shot him down; "Curses, foiled again!"
 

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Now Snoopy swore he'd get that man
So he asked the Great Pumpkin for a new battle plan
He challenged the German to a real dogfight
While the Baron was laughing, he got him in his sight

The Bloody Red Baron was in a fix
He tried everything but he'd run out of tricks
Snoopy fired once and he fired twice
And the Bloody Red Baron went spinning out of sight
 

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Some roaring of planes, machine-gun fire, Germans shouting "eins-zwei-drei-vier" etc.

Strangely enough, the song was banned in the U.S. and on BBC - because of the word "bloody" which is considered undecent. So when you listened to a broadcast of it in the 60's you would hear "... the -beep- Red Baron of Germany ... ". In their second song on the Red Baron (see below) the singers knew better - the Baron is, of course, going to go "to hell" (another undecent word).

The song was sung by a band called "The Royal Guardsmen" (very appropriate name) in 1967.

Another version of it was (or is?) sung by a group called the "Irish Rover". You can hear the Baron laugh, there is even more machine-gun fire, more roaring planes, more Germans shouting, and you will notice the Irish accent. It is strange that Irishmen sing this ballad, because Ireland, still under British rule during the days of the Red Baron, was seeking help from Imperial Germany in her struggle for independence, and the IRA were quite happy that the British troops were engaged fighting the Germans.


 
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