Snoopy vs The Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen (2.8 MB)

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El comic como medio es capaz de generar imágenes icónicas que trascienden incluso a las historias mismas donde se desarrollan.Una de esas,definitivamente es la imagen de Snoopy sentado sobre su perrera,mientras imagina ser un aviador de la 1ª Guerra Mundial.
En 1966,la misma imagen inspiró a la banda The Royal Guardsmen a crear una canción a tan solo 4 semanas después de que apareciera por 1ª vez el Snoopy aviador en la tira dominical de Peanuts.La canción fue un hit inmediato,y también le valió a la banda enfrentarse a una demanda por parte de Charles Schulz por usar el nombre de Snoopy —claro que tampoco ayudó mucho que a los Royal Guardsmen se les hizo fácil intentar fabricar otros hits instantáneos al hacer otras 3 o 4 canciones con menciones gratuitas a Snoopy.Por cierto,la canción también fue censurada en Australia e Inglaterra,por el uso de la palabra bloody —la cual es altisonante por esos rumbos.
Y pues va la letra completa:

Achtung!
Jetzt wir singen zusammen die Geschichte
Über den schweinköpfigen Hund
Und den lieben Red Baron

After the turn of the century
In the clear blue skies over Germany
Came a roar and a thunder men have never heard
Like the scream and the sound of a big war bird

(Eins, zwei, drei, vier...)
Up in the sky, a man in a plane
Baron von Richthofen was his name
Eighty men tried and eighty men died
Now they're buried together on the countryside

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The bloody Red Baron was rollin' out the score
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
Of the bloody Red Baron of Germany

(Left, two, three, four...)
In the nick of time, a hero arose
A funny-lookin' dog with a big black nose
He flew into the sky to seek revenge
But the Baron shot him down
"Curses, foiled again!"

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The bloody Red Baron was rollin' out the score
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
Of the bloody Red Baron of Germany

Now, Snoopy had sworn that he'd get that man
So he asked the Great Pumpkin for a new battle plan
He challenged the German to a real dogfight
While the Baron was laughing, he got him in his sight

That bloody Red Baron was in a fix
He'd tried everything, but he'd run out of tricks
Snoopy fired once and he fired twice
And that bloody Red Baron went spinning out of sight

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' out the score
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
Of the bloody Red Baron of Germany

Well, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' out the score
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
Of the bloody Red Baron of Germany