My new fave version of Eric Bogle’s Green Fields of France is this bilingual version, recorded live on a ‘folk’ package tour to Germany in 1981. Hearing the song sung in the languages of both sides adds a unique dimension that other covers lack.
The singers are Alex Campbell (in english) and Hannes Wader (english & german). Finbar Furey is credited, so he much be playing something but I dunno what. I’ve never heard his voice so I can’t tell if he takes a verse. He’s not playing his pipes. Dick Gaughan and John Faulkner were also on this tour, so the guitar might be either or someone else.
Anyway, I’m asking because the german translator didn’t try to translate ‘Foo’ers of the Forest’, & instead substituted what I assume to be a german equivallent of the scots lament for the fallen. I might have the spelling wrong, but my ears think they’re hearing the title “Diné kraft, diné jugend, die (dine?) liebe!” Does anyone know it?
Ja auch Dich haben sie schon genauso belogen
So wie sie es mit uns heute immer noch tun,
Und Du hast ihnen alles gegeben:
Dein Kraft, Deine Jugend, Dein Leben.
Which is, roughly:
Yes, so they lied to you, too,
Just as they keep on lying to us today,
And you have given them everything:
Your strength, your youth, your life.
It’s angrier than the Flowers of the Forest; that’s interesting.
If I’m reading the mudcat bit correctly, this verse is all Hannes Wader, not (as in Bogle’s) a verse which makes reference to another song. Is that the case? I was imagining this was a literal translation, & referenced a german song or poem of lament called 'Dine kraft.." I was wondering how the rest of that hypothetical song might go.
