Skyforger - Tīreļa Purvā (live 11.11.11)

Skyforger - Tīreļa Purvā / In The Tirelis Swamp (live in Riga, 11.11.11)
Skyforger performed metal concert in Riga center at Lāčplēsis Day, 11th November 2011. Song comes from the album Latvian Riflemen [2000]. For this case a special stage set was made, including even the original machine-gun used by riflemen.
Photos of the 11.11.11 event: goo.gl/DUmcd
Story about Latvian Riflemen: goo.gl/kxBNU
1982. gada filma "Strēlnieku zvaigznājs": goo.gl/HnGnY
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IN THE TIRELIS SWAMP
The legendary Christmas battles commenced on December 23, 1916 at surroundings of the Tirelis swamp near Machinegun hill -- it was the largest assault of the Russian 12th army in which Latvian Riflemen bore the brunt. After week long fights the combat mission of winning back Machinegun hill was fulfilled, but due to an inefficient action of Russian generals more than five thousands of Latvian Riflemen were dead...
Intro narration by one of the last alive Riflemen Pēteris Griško, taken from the motion-picture "Strēlnieku zvaigznājs" [1982]:
"We don't talk about World War I, we have forgotten about it, forgotten those our friends who fell then. It seems to me completely wrong... We didn't defend Czar, no! We did defend our land! And every place where we fought, where our battle-mates have stayed, that is unforgettable, sacred place..."
The Northwind howls like wounded beast
And turns snowstorm across the swamp
It disturbs the rest of silent shapes
And throws wet snow in their faces
Side by side, hundreds they sleep
And look at the sky with empty eyes
Who will dare to go and tell their mothers
That their sons are destined to stay forever
There in the Tirelis swamp...
In that frosty Christmas morning
Through the sea of barbed wires
Latvian regiments flowed like a great stream
They split up the German front as trifle
United by the burning current of hate
But fighting all day soldiers start losing the strength
Where are reinforcements, why don't they come?!
And one by one Latvian sons fall
And their regiments bled in snow, storm and frost
There in the Tirelis swamp...
And when the Christmas night comes again
And hungry wolves howl in the swamp
The ground shakes under the heavy steps of soldiers-
They have risen again, for a new fight they call
There in the Tirelis swamp
Where frost and death rules
Where horror, suffering without an end
In snow, storm and frost
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