Two Contemporary Bavarian Songs: “Veterans Day” and “You Here Too?” by Hans Well
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Heldengedenktag / Veterans Day appeared on the Biermösl Blosn album Tschuß Bayernland in 1985 (Mood Records). The song’s systematic structure counts its way strophe by strophe through the principal wars of a century or so of German history, each of which claimed a generation of the speaking subject’s family. Now it is time for today’s young man to do his military duty. The song leaves open whether the speaker will follow tradition or not. The mood of Christoph Well’s composition is suitably melancholy.
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