Peat Bog Soldiers

[Stallit 2 de Halfo]

Peat Bog Soldiers

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat_Bog_Soldiers_%28song%29

Peat Bog Soldiers is one of Europe's best-known protest songs. It exists in countless European languages, became a Republican anthem during the Spanish Civil War; was a symbol of resistance during the Second World War; and is popular with the Peace movement today. What makes it perhaps so poignant is the knowledge that is was written, composed and first performed in a Nazi concentration camp by the prisoners themselves.



Far and wide as the eye can wander,
Heath and bog are everywhere.
Not a bird sings out to cheer us.
Oaks are standing gaunt and bare.


We are the peat bog soldiers,

Marching with our spades to the moor.

We are the peat bog soldiers,

Marching with our spades to the moor.

Up and down the guards are marching,
No one, no one can get through.
Flight would mean a sure death facing,
Guns and barbed wire block our view.


We are the peat bog soldiers,

Marching with our spades to the moor.

We are the peat bog soldiers,

Marching with our spades to the moor.

But for us there is no complaining,
Winter will in time be past.
One day we shall rise rejoicing.
Homeland, dear, you're mine at last.


No more the peat bog soldiers

Will march with our spades to the moor.

No more the peat bog soldiers

Will march with our spades to the moor.

Luke Kelly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTRpfld45Pw

Paul Robeson
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAVIL7AoAt0

Unknown Irish?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4aMyIz4F0

raymondcrooke
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpH8hi1Pk_s&feature=related