The original version was just the score. I found out there is a vocal version which is the poem made about in the 1920s. The poem is called Kameraden halts enk fest zusammen.
The only lyrics to the Radetzky March I ever knew are from when it was used in commercials for "Bonduelle" canned sweet corn🌽: Ja der Mais, der Mais, der Mais marschiert! Der Mais, der Mais, der demonstriert! Ganz famos, sensationell! Lecker, lecker, Bonduelle! Ja der Mais, der Mais, der Mais kommt an! Der Mais, der Mais, schmeckt jedermann! Ganz famos, sensationell! Lecker, lecker, Bonduelle!
I’ve Prussian roots from my father. There’s a rural, working class folk attitude, yet very mystical, for what were the DEEP Black Forest communities for centuries, whereas Vienna, as an international trading hub, and tail end of the Silk Road, has always tended to keep the fiefdoms that eventually became Austria more cosmopolitan. These differences have naturally had a significant effect on their local music culture, even though both are Teutonic people. Pagan Prussians before the days of Saint Boniface, had many animist beliefs that would make sense to Shinto practitioners, although devoid of the compassionate influences of either Buddhism or Christianity. Although very fertile, Farming in the region was difficult before Roman techniques for removing huge stumps of felled trees were finally adopted, and those ancient trees are MASSIVE. Farm plots were subsequently kept small, and Romans increasingly hunting and stealing their semi-wild cattle so to sell beef in Italy didn’t help matters. They made,… …UNSPEAKABLE… …pacts with their gods in hopes of a blessing for increased farm yields. The “Berserk” manga makes reference to the exact rites. Saint Boniface brining the Gospel (AND the steel plow), ended that madness.
