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Military Marches, shanties and chants

Zachowon

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I often listen to marching songs and some shanties so I decided to go ahead and make a thread.

Post your favorite military songs here. Be they marches, shanties, chants, or Normal songs.
Songs pertaining to a military
 

Val the Moofia Boss

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gral

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Cisne Branco(White Swan - Brazilian Navy Anthem), with English lyrics:

Canção do Expedicionário(Expeditioneer's Song - WW2 Brazilian Expeditionary Force Song). This is a partial version of the song, but the only one I've found that has English subtitles:

Canção da Infantaria(Song of the Infantry). No English lyrics for this one:
 

Buba

A total creep
Japanese soldiers singing about being marched to their deaths in the snow:



The slow, purposeful "we iz unstoppable" of the Foreign Legion:


For a change of pace, from 70 to 120 steps a minute, the Spanish Legion (unbuttoned shirts, beards and goat are traditional and encouraged):



The very same crazy lads of the Spanish Legion singing "I am the bridegroom of death" while holding up a giant crucifix ... :



Sun Tsu say: Fal East give new flavour to old dish:
Chinese Beautiful Pink Army March Past 中華人民共和國國慶

March of Soviet Tankers:
Girls Und Panzer-March of the Soviet Tankists[Reuploaded]
 
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prinCZess

Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
To take the tack of lesser-known ones here...

Not sure if they're apocryphal or not, but 'Tri Yann' has a number of French shanties/folk-marches that are fun listens and tell some stories.
The latter in particular is an interesting snapshot perspective, with French (Breton? I think) soldiers condemning the generals and government of the Franco-Prussian War--perhaps most notable for the line 'Vive la Prusse et la France'




Also a curious phenomenon I encountered beginning of this year of Polish sea shanties, original or adopted/adapted. Curious to see a language/country not exactly known for its seagoing tradition to get in on the game.




Don't recall how I came across it, but 'Halo, Halo Bandung' from Indonesia manages to hit all of simple, melancholy, and hopeful in a very short, easily-remembered ditty.
 

Lord Sovereign

The resident Britbong
And as we are supposed to be a sci fi board, try this one ...



Wow.

I can actually picture the sailors of the Imperial Navy clinking their flagons together in the mess hall as their mighty Star Destroyer tears a hole into hyperspace.

Quite a badass and humanising moment for the Empire, hence why it would never be put to screen.
 
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