Song Switch

Until last week, the approved new war song for German soldiers in World War II was the German Navy's song of World War I. We're Sailing Against England, music by Composer Herms Niel, words by the late Poet Hermann Loens (killed at Rheims, 1914). Words:

Today a song we'll sing,

We'll drink the cool sweet wine And let our glasses clink

For orders came to part.

(Chorus) Give me your hand, your dear white hand,

Farewell, my sweetest love, Farewell, for we sail, farewell for we sail,

For we sail 'gainst England.

Our flag, see it wave from the mast,

Of Germany's strength it speaks,

We want to halt at last

The Englishman's sneering laugh.

(Chorus)

Last week the Nazi Party's poet Heinrich Anacker, was credited with the words, Composer Niel with the music, of a new official song intended to inspire the troops for what was apparently to happen next. Title: We're Marching Into France. Words:

Comrades, we're marching westward,

And our bombers are flying overhead.

And we'll smite at the foe till he's down, boys,

Though many of our best may be dead.

(Chorus) Forward, forward, on and on,

Over the Meuse, over the Scheldt and Rhine,

We march into France victorious.

We march, we march into France.

We storm and we march ever forward,

Ready to die for our Reich,

Till from tower to tower the bells toll

The new dawn, the turn of the times. (Chorus)

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