What music are you listening to?

Maria Farantouri singing Miki Theodorakis' "Mauthausen" (a concentration camp in Austria):


The lyrics for the song were written by Iacovos Kampanellis who was imprisoned at Mauthausen and fell in love with a girl which he could only see through the razor wire between the men's and women's camps. After the camp was liberated, he looked for her for 15 years. He finally located her but she was already married. Here are the lyrics in English for that song:

How beautiful is my love
With her everyday dress
And with the comb in her hair.
No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful.


You girls of Auschwitz,
You Dachau girls,


Have you seen my love, perchance?
Have you seen my love, perchance?
Have you seen my love, perchance?


We saw her on a long journey.
She no longer wore her dress
Nor her comb in her hair.


How beautiful is my love,
Pampered by her loving mother,
And her brother's kisses.


No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful.


You girls of Mauthausen,
You girls of Belsen,


Have you seen my love, perchance?
Have you seen my love, perchance?
Have you seen my love, perchance?


We saw her standing in the frozen square
With a number on her white arm,
A yellow star over her heart.


How beautiful is my love,
Pampered by her loving mother,
And her brother's kisses.


No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful.


No I am not crying, you are crying....

I do have the actual vinyl album of "Mauthausen"
 
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bigsnake49 said:
Maria Farantouri singing Miki Theodorakis' "Mathausen" (a concentration camp in Austria):


The lyrics for the song were written by Iacovos Kampanellis who was imprisoned at Mathausen and fell in love with a girl which he could only see through the razor wire between the men's and women's camps. After the camp was liberated, he looked for her for 15 years. He finally located her but she was already married. Here are the lyrics in English for that song:

How beautiful is my love
With her everyday dress
And with the comb in her hair.
No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful.


You girls of Auschwitz,
You Dachau girls,


Have you seen my love, perchance?
Have you seen my love, perchance?
Have you seen my love, perchance?


We saw her on a long journey.
She no longer wore her dress
Nor her comb in her hair.


How beautiful is my love,
Pampered by her loving mother,
And her brother's kisses.


No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful.


You girls of Mathausen,
You girls of Belsen,


Have you seen my love, perchance?
Have you seen my love, perchance?
Have you seen my love, perchance?


We saw her standing in the frozen square
With a number on her white arm,
A yellow star over her heart.


How beautiful is my love,
Pampered by her loving mother,
And her brother's kisses.


No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful
No one knew that she's so beautiful.


No I am not crying, you are crying....

I do have the actual vinyl album of "Mathausen"
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Beautiful and moving song. Thanks.

It also speaks to me because a distant cousin of my mother's died there. He was a resistance agitator working in the factories of Torino after the Germans took them over and were producing war materiel there. Like a lot of the inmates, he died of disease because of the conditions there. I'd have to look up the certificate we got, but I think it was typhus.

Mauthausen and its subcamps were specifically designed to exterminate through labor the political enemies of the Third Reich.
 
So many sad stories from that period. That's why I hate fascism either of the right or of the left.
 
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So many sad stories from that period. That's why I hate fascism either of the right or of the left.
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there is a third one also, the religious one,
like in Paris the last day.
 
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28-OCT or as it is also nown -OXI day-
and is considered sacred for Greece.
this Year Coronavirus does allow celebrations to happen

from the after WW2 history, 2 ladies had the priviledge to distinguish from commonality
1 is the Lady of Ro island
2 the other is the Lady of Marassia at Evros

Lady of Ro had a strange life, damned/cursed but also blessed
she had lived alone at the small island of Ro next to Megiste island at the complex of Kastelorizo (Castello+ριζα, At the root of the Castello of hospital St John Knights)
her life has become also a drama theatrical scenario, songs, documentaries etc,
She is only is the only person after 1920's that descend from the flagpole both the Italian at 1947-8 and later the Turkish flag at 1 SEP 1975 after a night cruiser operation by Omar Kasar.
She lived 55 years at a small island, from 1927 and everyday she raise and descend the Greek flag, no matter Dodecanese was at Italian occupation that time.
after the death of her husband 1940 she ask for her blind mother to come,
She lived 40 years alone at the island, the last habitant, having some scattered goats.
she was honoured by medals for participating at resistance and helping the Sacred band,
she was buried with honours of a veteran and her place is beside of the flagpole of the island,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_Ro


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"Something in Your Eyes" was performed by Jenny Silver in the first semifinal of Melodifestivalen 2011 in Luleå.
 
Apropos for a site which discusses genetics:
 
 
The Sound of Silence :grin:

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