It's time (song)
| It is time | |
|---|---|
| Hannes Wader | |
| publication | 1980 |
| length | 6:20 |
| Genre (s) | song writer |
| text | Hannes Wader |
| music | Eric Bogle under the title Green Fields of France |
| album | It is time |
The time has come for the version of Eric Bogle's No Man's Land , also known as The Green Fields of France and Willie McBride , to be written and sung by Hannes Wader . It is set at the grave of a young man who died in the First World War . The narrator wonders how the soldier could have died and whether he would have recognized his “real enemy”. In the chorus he establishes a connection to the present with the knowledge that nothing has changed. The last stanza ends with the headline: "It's about time."
content
Wader u. a. Age and year of death of the soldier, the fear that his death might have been horrific, the realization that the same thing will repeat itself over and over again. Wader renounces the scene depicted in the original refrain that the deceased could have received a solemn burial to the sound of drums, bagpipes, horns and flute.
An important difference between the original and the German translation is the namelessness of the victim. Wader shows the fate of the war dead using the example of a single soldier - in contrast to Georg Danzer's song Peace from 1981, which speaks of “four billion dead” (i.e. the entire world population). In the last stanza, however, Wader also speaks of the billions of deaths that a next war could bring. This verse ends with the hope that more and more people will find each other to prevent this war: "It is time."
construction
The introduction seems like an introduction to nature, with champagne, midsummer green, poppies and grasses. The idyll is interrupted by grave crosses and the grave field.
The four stanzas with eight verses each have blunt pair rhymes , the refrain consists of two rhymed verses and two verses with sounding pair rhymes. According to the three-quarter time it is mainly dactyls .
music
rhythm
The somewhat rigid three-quarter time is loosened up by dots and syncopation .
Harmony
The song is in F major , with the parallel minor chord and the subdominant parallel being used in addition to the other two major chords . The dominant is supplemented with the seventh .
Melody
After the triple tone repetition comes the common fourth jump . The pitch range is an undecimal , with the lowest note being a seventh below the root , in the first four lines. This is followed by the leap up a fifth to increase tension . The melody remains in this higher register, only towards the end of the verse does it return to the keynote.
Background and reception
No Man's Land (The green fields of France) was created in 1976 after Eric Bogles toured France. The soldiers' graves in northern France and Flanders had moved him so much that he wrote this song shortly afterwards. Eric Bogle was born in Scotland but has lived in Australia for over 30 years and has been Australian since 1982.
Hannes Wader's adaptation It is about time became a hymn of the peace movement . Millions of people sang the song at demonstrations, including on February 15, 2003 in Berlin at the demonstration against the war in Iraq. Wader, Konstantin Wecker and Reinhard Mey performed this title there.
The title also became interesting for right-wing extremists. After a concert at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Hannes Wader received a CD, an interpretation of “It's about time”. It later turned out that it was Frank Rennicke , a well-known right-wing singer-songwriter. Wader therefore took on the title “Statement”, which can be found on the album “ … and the times change ” (2005). In the song Hannes Wader makes it clear that he is against Nazis and doesn't even want to talk to them.
Released
The song has also been published by the following artists:
- Juniper (in the turning point of 1989)
- Picker's Corner (2000)
- Hannes Wader together with Reinhard Mey and Konstantin Wecker on Mey, Wader, Wecker - the concert (2003)
- Nosliw (2009)
- Marius Müller-Westernhagen (2011)
- Stomper 98 (2011)
- Eric Fish on Be Different (2009/2012)
- Reinhard Mey take it easy (2013)
- Dominik Plangger on CD hoffnungsstur (2013)
- Sidney King (2014)
- NoRMAhl on peace the huts, war on the palaces (2015)
- Morgaine & Kaveh (2016)
- Alligatoah on Stranger Tongues (2018 and 2014)
source
- Martin Ketels, Sanna Dinse: song basket (song book 5). Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1983, pp. 40f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Songs by Hannes Wader ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "I was forced to do it" , taz.de on February 2, 2014, seen on November 24, 2017
- ↑ Alligatoah at the sound check: "It's time" . In: YouTube . March 14, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
