Τη σπάθα σήκωσε και πάλι

Versione italiana di Riccardo Venturi
9 marzo 2009

Prevedendo qualche ragionevole obiezione per l'inserimento di una canzone del genere (che è una canzone di lotta) in questo sito, preghiamo ovviamente di tenere conto del contesto di tutto l'album. Cosa che probabilmente non hanno capito molto bene gli autori del video YouTube (che pure manteniamo, essendo l'unico dal quale si può ascoltare la canzone), che sembra glorificare le virtù militari elleniche e il suo esercito...o forse lo hanno capito benissimo, ma come tutti i fascisti e i nazionalisti tendono ad appropriarsi di cose che non appartengono loro.

err how exactly is this an anti war song? :P have the people who included it in this site taken a minute to translate the lyrics? the only way it can be taken as an anti war song is if we take the lyrics to have a sarcastic meaning.

Dear Vlad Tepes,

This is basically an Italian site and I think you don't understand Italian (otherwise, you wouldn't write in English). As a matter of fact, there's a specific commentary to the song, in Italian, where we apologize for including this struggle song that seems to glorify the Greek army and the Hellenic military strength. In the same commentary, we clearly state that this song has been included in the site for completeness sake, because we have translated the whole album (= all the songs), as you can see in the song introduction listing a series of cross links. If we decide to translate a whole album, we can't exclude any song; maybe you'd better taking a minute, and even two, to carefully read this page. Well, it's maybe in a language you don't know, but please don't think we are so stupid as to include such a song in an antiwar site without translating it and without specifying its background. I don't think this is a sarcastic song, it's a struggle song included in an album focused on the weary effects the Yalta pact had on Greece (i.e., civil war). As you can see, the lyrics to this song have been carefully translated into Italian; we apologize, but we cannot provide an English translation for all the 14,000 songs or so included in this site. Please bring our warmest greetings to Dracul and have a nice and bloodthirsty night.

My apologies for writing in English, but although i understand Italian i feel nowhere near comfortable to write in that language.

I felt it worth's clarifying a point or two about the song, nowhere in the lyrics it's glorifying the Greek army, it's a call to the simple people to resist foreign powers that repeatedly have tried and often succeeded in controlling a small country like Greece, where it calls for the people to take the heads of the foreigners it doesn't as many fascist would like to claim call for an attack against but for a defense from a foreign intervention by the Great Powers.