Blood On The Risers (Gory Gory What a Helluva Way to Die)- US Paratrooper Song

[@Hand-to-handWombatCombat]

Battle hymn of the republics menacing cousin

[@srikarchitta5644]

Lol true

[@General_Belu]

Guess you haven’t heard Solidarity Forever then.

[@cloakersmoker]

My uncle was a parachute packer in WW2 and he used to joke that no one ever came back to complain their chute failed to open.

[@srikarchitta5644]

Great respect to your uncle!

[@Thebritishlad-w4q]

Because they didn’t they died. (This is just a joke)

[@brodycharper]

Happy Independence Month!

[@Two4Brew]

When I was a cadet at Norwich, the military college in Vermont, from 75 - 79 this was one of our running cadence calls.

[@Dylan-qb8br]

Platoon Sergeant's morning tune to the chow hall.

[@ramyachitta6663]

Best WW2 Song

[@srikarchitta5644]

Fax

[@tomaszszypulski9942]

No

[@Usaball198o]

@@tomaszszypulski9942 then what is it?

[@skedichlavender2]

​@@Usaball198o SS Marschiert In Feindesland or maybe the Artilleyman's song

[@PaulA-hv4cd]

@@skedichlavender2 The first song is called "Teufelslied" I am pretty sure

[@viking1236]

The version I’m familiar with (British) ends They put him an envelope and sent him home to Mum. We used to sing it in the Boy Scouts.

[@Gamer42day]

I remember that

[@iamtherealElite]

name?

[@normalyoutuber8234]

"What a hell of a way to die indeed"!

[@dainn066]

This song: war is hell

[@MarkoKostelac]

Because it is.

[@mysticdragonwolf89]

Remember, the original song was “His (John Brown) soul goes marching on”.
Somewhere around end civil war and post civil rights movement, it became “I know a song that gets on everybody’s (the south’s) nerves”.
The Lost Cause at work

[@srikarchitta5644]

The original song was “His (John Brown) soul goes marching on”, but many Christians saw the song as childish, so they wrote "Mine eyes have seen the glory," which became this song. The reason it became a song that got on the south's nerve is both the Lost Cause myth and the lyrics of the song (probably. I don't live in the USA and don't know much about this stuff)

[@thearmyofdbscards3753]

You do know that "his soul goes marching on" came from the song say brothers will you meet us?

[@srikarchitta5644]

@@thearmyofdbscards3753 Just knew.

[@Franz_Joseph_I]

Madlad

[@Yo_bro_hows_your_life]

I asked some people how old they think this song is and I got 1880, 1864, 1750, 1820, 1890, so I would say the date 1944 is a bit off of what they said

[@srikarchitta5644]

@@Yo_bro_hows_your_life WHY WOULD THEY SAY 1750?

[@srikarchitta5644]

Also yo bro how's your life

[@Domadimin]

I think they thought about battle gimn of republic​@srikarchitta5644

[@johnfranceschi3271]

Well that's a pretty defeatist song...

[@srikarchitta5644]

How? ID See how.(I'm being ironic ofc)

[@johnpfannenstiel2817]

But it's honest. They knew what they were getting into.

[@notascientist709]

its an endearing song about respecting the dead

[@johnfranceschi3271]

@@notascientist709 I see

[@cornbreadisbetterthanpizza6866]

It was a song to sing before people jumped as a dark humor way to relieve tension.