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Snoopy vs. The Red Baron

Royal Guardsmen
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 Snoopy vs. The Red Baron


"Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" was inspired by the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz, which featured a recurring storyline of Snoopy imagining himself in the role of a World War I airman fighting the Red Baron.

The song was released only four weeks after the first comic strip featuring Snoopy fighting the Red Baron appeared. Schulz and United Features Syndicate sued the Royal Guardsmen for using the name Snoopy without permission or an advertising license. (The Guardsmen, meanwhile, hedged their bets by recording an alternate version of the song, called "Squeaky vs. the Black Knight"; some copies of this version were issued by Laurie Records in Canada.) UFS won the suit, the penalty being that all publishing revenues from the song would go to them. Schulz did allow the group to write more Snoopy songs.
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Achtung!
Wir werden jetzt zusammen die Geschichte jenes Schweins-köpfigen Hunds Snoopy und des beliebten Roten Barons singen


After the turn of the century
In the clear blue skies over Germany
Came a roar and a thunder mans has never heard
Like the screaming sound of a big war bird.
Up in the sky, a man in a plane
Baron Von Ricktofen was his name
Eight-y men tried and eight-y men died
Now, they're buried together together on the country side.

Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score
Eight-y men died trying to end that spree
Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany

In the nick of time, a hero arose
a funny looking 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, fifty or more
The bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score
Eight-y men died trying to end that spree
Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany.

Now Snoopy had swore that he'd get that man
So he asked the Great Pumpkin for a new battle plan
He challenged the German to a real dog fight
While the Baron was laughing he got him in his sights.
That bloody Red Baron was in a fix
He tried everything but he'd run out of tricks
Snoopy fired once and he fired twice
And that Bloody Red Baron went spin-nin out of sight

Ten, Twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more
The bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score

Contributed by Captain Nathan Hobbs C.S.A. - 2010/12/1 - 03:25



Language: Italian

versione italiana di Giorgio Gaber 1967

snoopy
SNOOPY CONTRO IL BARONE ROSSO

Achtung Achtung!
Vuoi cantare la storia di Barone tedesco di Grande Germania?

Questa è la storia senza pietà
Che accadde in Germania tanto tempo fa
Un rombo ed un tuono in cielo si udì
L'uccello di guerra nacque così
In cerca di gloria qualcuno partì
E col suo apparecchio veloce salì
Ma lassù più di uno la sua vita lasciò
Il Barone Rosso tutti sterminò

Uno dieci cento e forse anche di più
Tutti gli aerei cadevano giù
E su nel cielo c'era solo lui
Il dannato Barone non sbagliava mai

Ogni speranza piano piano svanì
Quando un giorno un eroe in cielo salì
Era un piccolo cane col nasone all'insù
Il suo nome era Snoopy non so dirvi di più
Il Barone Rosso lo attaccò
Ed in cielo la battaglia divampò
Il piccolo Snoopy fu abbattuto così
Il Barone tedesco roteando sparì

Uno dieci cento e forse anche di più
Tutti gli aerei cadevano giù
E su nel cielo c'era solo lui
Il dannato Barone non sbagliava mai

Ah ah ah ah ah!
Piccolo stupido cane, alles caput!

Col paracadute Snoopy si salvò
E alla vendetta si preparò
Decollò col suo aeroplano ma il Barone fuggì
Se guardate nel cielo sono ancora lì

Uno dieci cento e forse anche di più
Tutti gli aerei cadevano giù
E su nel cielo c'era solo lui
Il dannato Barone non sbagliava mai

Contributed by DonQuijote82 - 2012/9/5 - 12:55




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