Monday, November 3, 2014

ATF: Heroic Exploits

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.



Snoopy vs. The Red Baron
The Royal Guardsmen
After the turn of the century
In the clear blue skies over Germany
Came a roar and a thunder men had never heard
Like the screamin’ sound of a big war bird
Up in the sky
A man in a plane
Baron von Richthofen
Was his name
Eighty men tried
And eighty men died
Now they're buried together
On the countryside

Ten
Twenty
Thirty
Forty
Fifty or more
The bloody Red Baron
Was rollin' up the score
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
Of the bloody Red Baron of Germany

In the nick of time
A hero arose
A funny-lookin’ dog
With a big black nose
He flew into the sky
To seek revenge
But the Baron shot him down
Curses
Foiled again

Ten
Twenty
Thirty
Forty
Fifty or more
The bloody Red Baron
Was rollin' up the score
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
Of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany

Now Snoopy had sworn that he'd get that man
So he asked the Great Pumpkin for a new battle plan
He challenged the German
To a real dogfight
While the Baron was laughin’
He got him in his sight

That bloody Red Baron
Was in a fix
He'd tried everything
But he'd run out of tricks
Snoopy fired once
And he fired twice
And that bloody Red Baron
Went spinnin’ out of sight

Ten
Twenty
Thirty
Forty
Fifty or more
The bloody Red Baron
Was rollin' up the score
Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree
Of the bloody Red Baron of Germany
Well
Ten
Twenty
Thirty
Forty
Fifty or more
The bloody Red Baron
Was rollin' up the score



Iron Man
Black Sabbath
Has he lost his mind
Can he see or is he blind
Can he walk at all
Or if he moves will he fall

Is he alive or dead
Has he thoughts within his head
We'll just pass him there
Why should we even care

He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
When he traveled time
For the future of mankind

Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge

Now the time is here
For iron man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved

Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge

Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron man lives again

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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10 comments:

  1. Talk about extremes! I confess that I thought the Snoopy Red Baron number was one of the naffest records ever (sorry) and I was never a huge Black Sabbath fan - though many of my friends were and Ozzy seems a jolly nice fellow...

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Mike!!! Extremes? What are talking about? Hey, Snoopy vs. The Red Baron was a great tune to bang your head to back in the day! (LOL?)

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  2. I was just mentioning Snoopy and the Red Baron, and this song, to my wife yesterday. My late dad loved this song.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Stephen!!! So did my dad and mom. When I played it for my wife earlier, she remembered a different version, with the Red Baron wishing Snoopy a Merry Christmas after shooting him down, which I do not recall at all.

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  3. That dastardly Red Baron - he was almost as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel - that is until Snoopy the Ace came along!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  4. I don't think I have ever heard that first one before.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! No way! Your dad was a pilot!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear TWG!!! Used to? Are you trying to be an adult again?

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