However, if you study the lyrics carefully again, you will find that although the melody of this military song is very relaxed and happy, the story told is a complete tragedy, full of all kinds of bloody and tragic elements. Just look at the lyrics in the picture above. Green blood is like a spring, taking righteousness and becoming benevolence? Actually, it's a little too much, okay? Sublimation? And then what? Improve the realm? Well, if you translate it directly into spoken English literally, it will be closer to this bloody death. How tragic? .
During World War II, the military song of the US Army 10 1 Airborne Division was called "Blood on the Riser" (blood-stained umbrella rope). Its melody was born earlier and originated from a Christian hymn. Because the rhythm is very suitable for collective singing, it was rewritten in the American Civil War in the1860s and was praised by President Lincoln as a military song of the federal government.
During World War II, the lyrics were changed to a more realistic "blood-stained umbrella rope". In a sensational style, it tells the tragic scene that a rookie paratrooper jumped off the plane and fell to the ground because his parachute failed to open. It is also interspersed with the violent psychological activities of paratroopers facing death during the fall. In a pool of blood, his comrades gave it to him? Collect the body? Situation.
The whole lyrics are mainly spoken, and the narrative style is also very good? Grounding gas? , the details are quite good? Stimulation? . Therefore, it is especially welcomed by 10 1 airborne division officers and soldiers at the grass-roots level.
Can you be more specific? Reading? Imagine a few representative paragraphs.
He is just a recruit, and he must be shaking with fear.
He is just a novice paratrooper, of course he will shake like chaff.
.............. He had to sit and listen to those terrible engine roar.
He sat there helplessly, listening to the terrible roar of the engine.
......... "Is everyone happy?" The sergeant looked up and shouted
The sergeant looked up and asked? Is everyone okay? ?
Our hero replied feebly, "Yes", and then they made him stand up.
Our hero's weak answer? what's up Comrades helped him stand up.
Apparently, paratroopers? They set it up? , use directly? Main melody melody? And then what? Heroism Contrary to the naysayers, he is a timid rookie paratrooper with no skills and poor psychological quality. He was very scared and nervous before parachuting.
10 1 The real state of the airborne division before parachuting. Obviously, many of them are very nervous.