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Thread #59512   Message #952921
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
15-May-03 - 02:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Napoleon in Russia
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Napoleon in Russia
I don't know the song Frischauf, ihr Preußen ..., but it seems to me by the structure of the song that it might be the tune of a better known song: Was blasen die Trompeten? Husaren heraus! (What are the bugles calling? Hussars come out! = A song to the praise of Field Marshal Blücher.) Especially the chori (chorusses? chorussians?) fit together.
It is not uncommon in German soldier songs, that one tune is used for a couple of different songs, modeled after a common source.
And now, Wolfgang, where the hell did you find the song? Source, please.
6. Fuß ... Must it not be Füß? (rhyme to Paris, adj. meine = pl. fem.)

Wilfried.