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Zupfgeigenhansel - Ich bin Soldat

Altes deutsches Antikriegslied, das unter dem Eindruck der Bismarckschen Einigungskriege in den 1870er Jahren von einem unbekannten Sozialdemokraten geschrieben wurde. Written by an anonymous German pacifist during the 1870s in answer to the German wars of unification. Rough translation for those who don't understand German: I am a soldier but I don't like being one when I was they didn't ask me they dragged me away into a casern where I was held captive and hunted like an animal I had to leave my home, my friends and my sweetheart thinking about it makes me furious I am a soldier but only against my will I don't love the blue uniform I don't love this bloody warfare a stick would suffice to defend myself Oh tell me, what do you need soldiers for? All peoples only love ease and peace you destroy that just out of imperiousness and to harm your people I'm a soldier have to march day and night instead of holding down my work I have to be on sentry duty instead of being free I have to salute and see the arrogance of snotty youngsters And when we go to war I have to murder brothers who have never harmed me in any way but at least as a cripple I can wear decorations and medals and starving I will exclaim 'I was a soldier' All you brothers whether Germans or French whether Hungarians or Danes or from the Netherlands whether your pants are green or red blue or white instead of lead shot let's give each other the brother hand let's march back to our home countries and free our nations from the tryants because only tyrants have to wage wars a soldier of freedom, now that I want to be a soldier of freedom, now that I want to be