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Trees Of The Field

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Heard this song played in a Messianic praise style, and realised that indeed it was written by Messianic songwriters. This video presentation is a segment featured on one of Bill Gaither's recordings. Inspired from Isaiah 55:12, concerning the joy of all creation in celebrating the returning of the King !

Forever Young

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Lovely and amazing, this song, after all the marching, swearing songs that I have put up. Also a clarion persuasion towards a life of activism - not necessarily that of overt adventurism in opposing any and everything for public notoriety's sake, but more usefully, for the wonder of influence to work through the conviction of hearts and minds through thoughtful word and action.

The Lost Performance of We Shall Overcome

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Again, another contrast to all the boisterous marching music that I have put up recently.

Blowing In The Wind

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Another stark contrast to all the marching songs that I have put up recently. Not merely an 'anti-war' song per se, but more subtly, it applies to an anti-establishment/anti-system approach to current state of lifestyle choices amongst the masses, though not particularly advocating the promotion of violence in doing so. It challenges the individual will to change one's own lifestyle and surrender its ownership to a greater authority - one that transcends the realm of this world and the systems that revolve around it

Where Have All the Flowers Gone

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A stark contrast to all the marching songs that I have put up recently.

O du schöner Westerwald

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Another reknown marching song of the Wehrmacht along the tunes and lyrics of traditional folk song of the same title, also titled the "Westerwaldlied". Note to note: again there are no explicit tell signs of any allusion to politics, not least the ruling Nazi government of the time, as observable in the lyrics. This is a folk song that predates the horrors of wartime Germany.

Die Wacht am Rhein (Wehrmacht in color)

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Yet another rousing marching song of the Wehrmacht, played to a well rendered compilation of precious WW2 video footage of the German army, in colour. Interestingly, "Die Wacht am Rhein", or "The Watch on the Rhine" was written in the times of pre-World War 1 Germany, back in the twilight years of the Prussian monarchy. It only returned to prominence during the times of desperation of the German peoples struggling to be relieved from the state of imminent threat to national unity and security. It would have become the national anthem of modern Germany.