Ten German Bombers

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Ten German Bombers (German "Ten German Bombers") is a battle song by English football fans .

Origin and content

The lyrics of the song has already been in the Second World War by British schoolchildren during the Blitz , the German air raids sung in British cities during World War II. The structure of the song follows the well-known and traditional English children's song Ten Green Bottles . The children sang ten German bombers , one after the other, to the tune of the folk tune She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain , which Goldy & Peter de Vries introduced to the German-speaking world in 1949 with From the blue mountains we come be shot down by the "English" Air Force ( RAF ):

There were ten German bombers in the air, Ten German bombers were in the air
There were ten German bombers in the air, ten German bombers were in the air,
There were ten German bombers, Ten German bombers, ten German bombers, ten German bombers,
There were ten German bombers in the air, ten German bombers were in the air
And the RAF of England shot one down, And the British Royal Air Force shot you down
And the RAF of England shot one down, and the British Royal Air Force shot one down.
And the RAF of England, The RAF of England, and the RAF from England, the RAF from England,
And the RAF of England shot one down, and the RAF from England shot one down.

In the following verses, similar to the children's song Ten Little Indians ( Ten Little Indians ), counted from ten to one, with the difference that up to the number of aircraft in the text of the verses does not change. The last stanza reads:

There were no German bombers in the air, Then there were no more German bombers in the air
There were no German bombers in the air, then there were no more German bombers in the air,
There were no German bombers, No German bombers, then there were no German bombers, then there were no German bombers,
There were no German bombers in the air, then there were no German bombers in the air.
Cos the RAF from England shot them down, Because the RAF from England shot them down
Cos the RAF from England shot them down, because the RAF from England shot them down,
Cos the RAF from England, The RAF from England, because the RAF from England, because the RAF from England,
Cos the RAF from England shot them down. because the RAF from England shot them down.

The song is particularly popular with English hooligans and is regularly intoned when German and English teams meet. Traditionally, the content of the song is accompanied by gestures by spreading the arms horizontally to the side, imitating an airplane, and then moving them rhythmically up and down while maintaining an angle of 180 degrees. Usually, in response to 'Ten German Bombers', German hooligans sing the German Wehrmacht song Bomben auf Engelland , which intensifies the atmosphere of hatred even more.

Since winning the World Cup in 1966, the Two World Wars and One World Cup , which is also only applicable against Germans, has been sung. After the Pet Shop Boys published Go West in 1993 , the anti-German repertoire was expanded to include Stand up if you won the war .

Controversy on the occasion of the 2006 World Cup

In the run-up to the 2006 World Cup , which the organizers and the English Football Association tried to make as apolitical as possible, a controversy over singing flared up in English football. Both the Football Association and Sven-Göran Eriksson , the coach of the English national football team , have asked the English fans to refrain from singing Ten German Bombers and related tunes. Even the recording of TV spots in which stars of the team such as David Beckham , Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney should express this request was planned. However, these measures have been criticized in British tabloids such as the Daily Mirror , with statements such as Germany Uber Alles has to be the most arrogant anthem in the world .

In Germany, the controversy was picked up in an anti-German blog . The Berlin musicians Egotronic feat. In March of that year, Koks & Pillen published a version of the song in the thug style of the rave project Scooter including a self-produced music video , which quickly spread via other blogs. The song even made it onto the sampler Ballermann: Die Weltmeister-Hits 2006 .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Video recording by an unknown director after the World Cup match between England and Ecuador in Stuttgart in 2006: " English football supporters sing ... " on YouTube .
  2. ↑ http://www.publikative.org/2012/06/24/em-nazis-schland Breaking News: Nazis also stick to “Schland”
  3. ↑ O'Neill, Sean. " England's traveling supporters are told: mention the war at your own peril " in The Times Online.
  4. ↑ a b Parsons, Tony. " Forget the War? It's far too soon " in The Mirror .

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