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Lourinhã > Largo António Granjo > Monumento aos Combatentes do Ultramar > 6 de setembro de 2014 > I Encontro dos Paraquedistas do Oeste > Lourinhã >  Um grupo de antigos páras, da Associação de Pára-quedistas Tejo Norte, com sede em Oeiras, canta o "Hino dos Boinas Verdes"...

Vídeo (2' 10''):. Alojado em You Tube > Nhabijões.

Foto e vídeo: © Luís Graça (2014). Todos os direitos reservados.


Hino dos Boinas Verdes

Lá do céu com valentia,
Descem sempre de noite ou dia,
São soldados desconhecidos,
Boinas Verdes são destemidos.

Olhem bem, sintam respeito,
Eles têm asas ao peito,
Cabeça erguida, heróis do ar,
Boinas verdes vão a passar.

Com orgulho em defender
A Nação p'ra não morrer,
Lutadores são, afinal,
Boinas Verdes de Portugal.

Lá do céu a gente pede
Para na terra morrer de pé,
Dando a vida que Deus nos deu,
Boinas Verdes sobem ao céu.

Olhem bem, sintam respeito,
Eles têm asas ao peito,
Cabeça erguida, heróis do ar,
Boinas verdes vão a passar.


[Fonte: Cortesia de Boinas Verdes de Portugal]

Música dos americanos  SSgt [Staff Sargent] SF[Special Forces] Barry Sadler  e Robin Moore. Título original "The Ballad of The Green Berets", 1966. Vd. no You Tube uma interpretação do próprio Barry Sadler]

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2 comentários:

Luís Graça disse...

Com a devida vénia da Wikipedia, em versão inglesa, um excerto:

(...) "The Ballad of the Green Berets" is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U.S. Army. It is one of the very few songs of the 1960s to cast the military in a positive light and in 1966 it became a major hit, reaching No. 1 for five weeks on the Hot 100 and four weeks on Cashbox. It was also a crossover smash, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart and No. 2 on Billboard's Country survey.

The song was written by Robin Moore and Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, while the latter was recuperating from a leg wound suffered as a medic in the Vietnam War. Moore also wrote a book, The Green Berets, about the force. The tune itself is borrowed from the traditional American folk song "The Butcher Boy".

Lyrics include:

"Back at home a young wife waits
Her Green Beret has met his fate
He has died for those oppressed
Leaving her this last request

Put silver wings on my son's chest
Make him one of America's best
He'll be a man they'll test one day
Have him win the Green Beret"

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.[1] One verse was written in honor of Gabriel, but it never made it into the final version.[2]

Sadler debuted the song on television on January 30, 1966 on The Ed Sullivan Show.(...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballad_of_the_Green_Berets

Luís Graça disse...

Eis aqui a letra original tal como foi escrita e interpretada, em 1966, pelo SSgt Barry Sadler (1940-1989), quer pertenceu às "Army Special Forces", e combateu no Vietname onde foi ferido em combate, em maio de 1965...

Teve uma vida tráGICA, como se pode ler aqui, na Wekipedia, versão inglesa. Esta balada, composta durante a sua recuperação num hospital militar, foi o seu único grande sucesso musical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Sadler


Descoheço quem adaptou a letra para portugês... LG

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The Balad of the Green Berets

As Written & Performed by SSgt Barry Sadler


Fighting soldiers from the sky
Fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say
The brave men of the Green Beret

Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America's best
One hundred men we'll test today
But only three win the Green Beret

Trained to live, off nature's land
Trained in combat, hand to hand
Men who fight by night and day
Courage deep, from the Green Beret

Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America's best
One hundred men we'll test today
But only three win the Green Beret

Back at home a young wife waits
Her Green Beret has met his fate
He has died for those oppressed
Leaving her this last request

Put silver wings on my son's chest
Make him one of America's best
He'll be a man they'll test one day
Have him win the Green Beret

http://greenberetcd.com/ballad.html