Much of the lyrics are from Audie's 1947 poem Crosses Grow on Anzio. Audie Murphy played himself in the autobiographical movie To Hell and Back. His son thanked the band for the only non-C&W song about his father and gave then vintage movie poster of his movie.
"The crosses grow on Anzio," Then, perhaps, his blue eyes wept, For the countless heartbreaks he had known; The secrets that he kept. How could a nation duly honor him, A youth too young to shave, And yet upon the battlefield, The bravest of the brave. Young, perhaps, but more a man, Than most men will ever be. Who saw more sorrow than any youth, Should ever have to see. "The crosses grow on Anzio" Of friends passed on he wrote; But they were gone and would never know, It was a hero's quote. "The crosses grow on Anzio" Then, perhaps, his blue eyes wept, For the countless friends that he had known, Were friends in death who slept. Author: Audie Murphy
Thank you for the background on this piece! This poem is indeed beautifully written, and it is touching to hear that his son personally thanked the band for this song.
@@x2zchat You might be interested to know that Joakim has visited Murphy's grave at Arlington, and has visited the graves and sites of many of the people they sing about. He said he feels it is important to personally visit to honor and thank them.
Sabaton does not glorify war, but they do spotlight the sacrifice, heroism, honor, and humanity of individuals and groups in the horrible cauldron of war. With Sabaton you get a free history lesson with every great metal song. Sabaton live concerts are amazing with awesome fan interaction. I recommend the live version of "40:1" or "Ghost Division" from the 2012 Polish Woodstock festival with 550000+ in attendance. Great reaction, keep rocking.
Love that they highlight the heroism and humanity of those who were involved in the terrible gears of war. Really enjoyed this one and looking forward to hearing more of their songs! Added your suggestions to the wheel!
Welcome to the best way to learn history. Sabaton is a heavy metal band from Sweden and all of their songs, except 1 album, are about military history. It's important to say that they don't glorify war itself and they don't take sides- they simply tell stories. They also have their own history channel - Sabaton History - where a historian explains a historic background of each song (also worth of a reaction). I recommend their songs Bismarck, Christmas truce and Last Stand for start
I agree as well. Christmas Truce would be a great place to start. It’s listed on RU-vid as SABATON - Christmas Truce (Official Music Video). The official music video is definitely the best version for a reaction. Be sure to listen all the way through; the song continues during the end credits.
This was a great reaction. As you dive deeper into Sabatons catalogue, you might find it interesting to watch Sabaton history channel. In that channel, they give you the history behind every song.
Murphy died in a plane crash in the mountains nearby where I live (Roanoke, Virginia, USA). This song always hits a little different for me given where his final resting place is.
Thank you for letting us know! It is really cool and unique that they have their own history channel. I have never seen a band do that before! Will make sure to reference them going forward to get the full history behind each song.
Audie Murphy is the only man to be given every military award in WWII. At the end of WWI there was a man named Alvin York who was also given every military award at that time, and Sabaton did a song about him as well; it is called 82nd All the Way.
I highly recommend the Sabaton's "Story videos" for No bullets fly, Night Witches, and Red Baron. They will add more context along with a good music video
Sabaton has their own history channel that elaborates on their songs, ie. tells the wider story that inspired the song. If you want to dig deeper, you can do like double reaction, both song and the associated History episode.
If youre interested, check out "82nd all the way"...in WWI , the Sgt Alvin York had a very similar story, and he also received the MOH in 1918. As you maybe already know, Sabaton is telling stories, no matter how it ended and which side
Carolus Rex was my intro song to Sabaton but The Seven Pillars of Wisdom was the song that made me decide to listen to everything I could find of theirs.
Sabaton has a great catalogue of songs that tell the story of multiple events in war, mostly the world wars and an album specific to Sweden’s involvement in the 30 years war. Every song is creatively written and played in a tone that matches the events of the story, for example “stormtroopers” and “ghost division” which sings about the blitzkrieg of Poland are fast pace and hard hitting to match the fast pace nature of the blitzkrieg.
Welcome to the world of Sabaton No bullets fly the animated story video will be great for you to watch but there are so many songs from them. They don't glorify war but rather tell the stories of men and women who did their duty for their country
Murphy was a big star in early Western movies...WAY b4 either of your times! Add to your Sabaton list, Night Witches...a great story and video! All their songs are anthemic sing alongs!
THE CROSSES GROW ON ANZIO Oh, gather 'round me, comrades; and listen while I speak Of a war, a war, a war where hell is six feet deep. Along the shore, the cannons roar. Oh how can a soldier sleep? The going's slow on Anzio. And hell is six feet deep. Praise be to God for this captured sod that rich with blood does seep. With yours and mine, like butchered swine's; and hell is six feet deep. That death awaits there's no debate; no triumph will we reap. The crosses grow on Anzio, where hell is six feet deep. . . . Audie Murphy, 1948
Sabaton is amazing. They take incredible, real stories and tell them in a way that is capturing the audience and honering the people and the past. It's a great rabbit hole to fall into :)
Really good reaction! Welcome to the rabbit hole that is Sabaton. Do continue to react to them please, they have done so much good music. It is hard to pick, but a few must see to begin with: 'En livstid i krig' live from the Great Tour in Gothenburg. Its in Swedish but use subtitles. 'No bullets fly' the animated story and why not an older video, 'Ghostdivision' live from the polish Woodstock back in 2012. And someone suggested their official Sabaton History Channel, second that.
When were in combat we witness, endure and do horrible things to stay alive and to defend and protect. And trying to not lose our humanity and our sanity during all of that. We're lucky to have Sabaton to raise awareness of ptsd.
Kingston TX is a 1 hour drive from my hometown. Audie Murphy was basically a neighbor of mine. Every veterans day fresh flowers are laid for him. His grave is also always clean
Hi guys, welcome to the wonderful music of Sabaton. . You are right, Sabaton makes songs about war history. They are from Sweden and they have been around for more then 20 years. So they have a huge song collection. For the last few years they have been working with yarnhub, an animation film production firm. They explain their songs is a very fascinating way. There are a lot of songs I can recommend. Let's start with " no bullets fly". A very heartwarming story out of world war II. AND OF COURSE THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE. Easily one of the best songs and video in rock music ever made. Please please check these songs out. They are amazing. But there are plenty of other songs worth listening to. So, have fun with the history of Sabaton 😊
Audie Murphy had his experiences put into a book titled "To Hell and Back" with help from another writer. Murphy would later star in a movie based on the book, thus the scenes from the movie are in the video. Murphy was a Private when he first joined the Army and made a battlefield commissions up to First Lieutenant. He was a Major in the Texas National Guard. Unfortunately he died in a plane crash near Roanoke, Virginia in 1971.
If you want an awesome live song with sabaton you should go with en livstid i krig (a lifetime of war) it is the Swedish version ( the carolus rex album is about a part of Swedish called the era of great power or stormaktstiden and was released with an English and Swedish version) I was at that show and all I can say is that you wont regret it, just be sure that the subtitles are on.
Great reaction - thanks! When you are ready to know some more interesting individuals I recommend you from Heroes 2014 album: No Bullets Fly, Night Witches, Inmate 4859, Soldier of 3 Armies, and from other albums: The Red Baron, 82 All the Way, The Unkilable Soldier, ... and with the group heroes - there are many great songs, e.g. Primo Victoria, Winged Hussars, 40:1, Cliffs of Gallipoli, The Price of Mile, Uprising, Screaming Eagles, Aces in Exile, En Livstid I Krig, Blood of Bannockburn, The Last Stand, Shiroyama, Fields of Verdun (my fav.), Great War and Devil Dogs...I'm waiting for more Sabaton with you, You're great speakers!
Crosses grow on Anzio is a poem by Audie Murphy. Some of those war scenes are from the movie To Hell and Back starring Audie Murphy as himself. Anzio was a beachhead landing in Italy in WW II. Murphy entered the army at 17 and fought in North Africa, Italy, and Southern France. He held off 250 Germans. He was a sharecroppers kid from East Texas.
Sabaton have their history channel where they talk about songs co-hosted with either Par or Joakim. Check out “Lady of the dark” a highly decorated female fighter who went on to form 3 all female regiments in Russia which leads onto “Night Witches”
The action Audie is known for is climbing onto a burned out M10 tank destroyer and fending off enemy forces with a M2HB mounted on the vehicle. In the movie he starred in about himself he was shown on the top of an M4 Sherman medium tank, he didn’t like this but the only tank they had access to was a Sherman.
I can't believe that you as Americans have never heard of Audie Murphy, you saw him in the actual film clip of the story of his life as the American Sargent in the the Sabaton music video that you just watched. I am British and even i know Audie Murphy as he was my late mum's favourite film star. He starred as himself in the film TO HELL AND BACK also many films. My favourite film of his was THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE which he played a young Union soldier during the American Civil War. Audie Murphy is Captain America as he was an Amazing man who went through hell not only in WW2 but After with his PTSD. He died far too soon and too young. Sabaton met his son when they made this song about his dad Audie Murphy, his son loved the song by Sabaton about his dad and said that his dad would of loved it as it wasn't the usual country and Western song about him. British Sabaton Fan 💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🏴💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Highly recommend the whole live performance in poland Woodstock 2012 750k crowd. Also a great story is behind no bullets fly the animated story video. It's important, that you watch the animated story video.
Audie was always celebrated as earning the most military medals, including some from France. There was one other soldier who might have earned the same amount. If you get a chance, read Audie's own book, To Hell and Back. He had a writer helping him, but it's clear that Audie's own voice comes through. The film shows his bravery in Holtzwihr, France, near Colmar. 6 German tanks and hundreds of German soldiers began moving towards Audie and his small command. He saw that his troops would get slaughtered, so ordered them back to safety. He stayed, calling in artillery coordinates. As the tanks and troops got closer, Audie got on one of the two burning Allied tank destroyers, found the machine gun in perfect working order, and started firing. The smoke from the artillery confused the Germans, so they didn't know where the machine gun fire was coming from. Plus, they didn't think that anyone would be crazy enough to be on a burning tank that would blow up at any minute. Audie killed many Germans that day, and the 6 tanks retreated. This is one of his most famous reasons to get the Medal of Honor. The grateful citizens of Holtzwihr created a small but heart-felt memorial to Audie and the other soldiers for freeing them from the Germans. Audie never considered himself a hero, and requested that his headstone at Arlington be plain, without the decorated headstones for MOR recipients. You will have an interesting time researching him! What I realized after reading his story: No Whining. He had plenty of reasons to complain about the terrible cards that fate dealt him from the time he was a toddler, but he never complained.
Sabaton has a loooong list of history based music, it is kind of their theme, here is a short list First , Sabaton videos are often have deductions and/or messages at the end, do watching to the end is frequently well worth it . Animated STORY videos (short history lessons with music videos in them) No bullets fly Night witches Lady of the dark Red baron epic ones, Bismark, about the sinking of the ship Defence of Moscow, self explained. Christmas truce, about the spontaneous truce in some parts of the western front during Christmas 1914 40:1, about polish soldiers, badly outnumbered (just under 750 in all) facing 42 000 germans, they where BADLY outgunned desperately defending against the German invasion 1939 Uprising, the Warsaw Uprising during 1944. To hell and back, they tell the story of Audie Murphy (highly decorated) and his struggle AFTER the war, so about PTSD and drug addiction that returning soldiers can face. Fields of verdun, the 300+ day long battle fought there. Screaming Eagles, about the battle of the bulge Live performance 40:1 from poland Uprising from poland En livstid I krig live from Göteborg Sweden (in Swedish but there are subtitles) , very heavy again, about thoughts of a young man going to war. these are just some, there are plenty more.
You have reacted and liked a Sabaton song. Your fate is sealed. Prepare for an onslaught of us, Sabaton fans, bugging you for more. If you're into that kind of music you'd find yourself coming back anyways, so I wish you fun on the new branch of music. I will warn you tho, you will encounter some real tearjerkers among Sabaton songs.
Go for music video on Bismarck and Christmas Truce… rest live performance specially from Woodstock Poland… and ofc En livstid i krig -live from Gothenburg
Hi, watched all your Breaking Benjamin reaction videos and I loved them! Great Job! Could you guys react to Linkin Park's newest releases " Lost " and "Fighting Myself " ?! Also if you're not familiar with Linkin Park ( which I highly doubt) you could react to the majority of their songs.
Thank you for watching and glad you enjoyed!! Definitely have heard Linkin Park back in the day (Love the songs In The End and Numb by them), and I think Rob has as well. Will add the new suggestions to the wheel, it will be interesting to hear what their sound is now. RIP Chester
@@x2zchat These 2 songs are unreleased songs from the Meteora album that didn't make the cut at the time as the band thought they sounded too similar to other songs from the album.
the song volume is too low! stopped watching to go watch the song by itself on youtube to do it proper justice! you cant play metal music at the same level you speak at!
