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Great song. I love your "german version" series. If you look for some other Polish songs I propose "Marsz pierwszej brygady" or "Ostatni mazur / Jeszcze jeden mazur dzisiaj".
It's a great adaptation, but here's what it misses compared to the original: - "much to do and little to eat" sounds like "we just have to do live like this" while in the polish version it sounds more like "our officers order and expect us to act like that", basically the entire song is bragging about officers and food without bragging about war or the enemy or blaming the army or the country. Life sucks, but morale's still high. Same for the waking up ("they won't let us sleep") part where it's even more clearly visible that it's bragging about the commanders, not only their orders - the soldier refers to his rifle as a comrade and his canteen as a trustee, this indicates how much time that guy spent in the field, here they're displayed as ordinary objects - and finally, in polish culture, sweedish manner of training is perceived as rather tough, german manner of living basically means being very strict about everything and listening to orders and polish manner of wartime eating was clearly depicted in the song, it's not about polish food in general. Put another words, the quality of food is nowhere near the quality of their work and that's the point of this part. I hope this help those who don't speak Polish better understand the song. Also, great job Karl for popularising the song that in my opinion really deserves it
Lyrics were completely rewritten but you kept both the melody, how the words sounded and story of the song (or more of one big complaint about food in Austro-Hungarian army) is pretty much unaltered. Great work. Thanks.
I wonder, how do you translate songs from all these languages? Do you contact native speakers or do you find English/German translations and then create German lyrics that fit the melody?
I know you might not see this but I would much appreciate it if you could add more music to iTunes and make more German Polish songs please and thank you. Greetings from an American Pole.
Fenomenal. Out of all of the Polish military songs this is the only one I like. You barely changed the meaning of the verses, yet it sounds as if the original was German. Shame you didn't manage to preserve the joke about the coffee, that was my favorite part.
@@l-nolazck-rn24 I know it's music and i like 'controversial' music, even To Serve Russia, it's catchy, but as you said, people could call out Karl for apologizing to current Russian doings
I feel like Karl could make an American march song into a beautiful sounding German cover, because he’s already done a great job on a fully American song (in hell I’ll be good company)
I think it's too overly fascist to be included. Karl toys with right-wing music from time to time (Freikorps Voran, La Marcha Peronista, El Abanderado de la Tradicion, Zrodyłyś my wełykoji hodyny, Haylim Almonim), but covering a flat-out fascist song would be too much, especially for the YT censorship.
@@user-ge9pt8vd6h it's pole, so maybe it gets overlook, though yeah, I miss the days when I could listen to both extremist sides music, now it's only commie ones but eh, that's something
I have nothing against Karl, but a request to German and Polish commentators not to write comments in the style of "Polish and German brothers 🇵🇱🇩🇪". we have never been friends as nations, and neither have Poles and Russians. We are natural enemies.
@@Yoshi-hc4nn The EU is a completely artificial way of "friendship", and even in the EU we see Poles and Germans always taking opposite sides in almost everything, and a random alliance from 952374859328 years ago that ended, as you said, very shortly, means absolutely nothing. Poles and Germans have been fighting eachother for centuries, no gay modern westoid alliances will change history
I'm scratching my head. How is this supposed to keep the morale up? How is this supposed to make the soldiers feel like fighting? I feel demoralised, and I'm not even living in a war zone. Just feels like a song complaining about their life and army rations and how unfair life is to them and how they missed out on the good times, have to suffer the bad times, and won't live to see the good times again. If I sang this, I wouldn't even feel like fighting.
Probably you have never been in army. In Poland soldiers during war/even peace time they have their own ration of food delivered by MON(ministry of national defence) - but yeah, its not great food, but the song is about : yes, its bad, hard times but we will follow up because of we are fighting for Poland and we are polish soldiers. Also its sung by low-rank soldier and it shows officers point of view.
@@OG_lemonbrev2 Good luck, it may be hard, but well, still easier than Hungarian :) Btw, how's your French? I find it beautiful, but It's very hard for me, much harder than German, which is pretty easy for me. I know that my grandfather spoke French and tried to teach it my father (but failed), but he was very old and died in 90's, almost 10 years before my birth.
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