Sabaton songs (lyrics)

Coat of Arms

At dawn envog arrive
Morning of October 28th
“No day” proven by deed
Descendants of Sparta, Athens and Crete!

Look north,
ready to fight
Enemies charge from the hills To arms!
Facing defeat!
There’s no surrender!
There’s no retreat!

Time after time
Force their enemies back to the line
Call to arms banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading
“Freedom or death!”
Blood of king Leonidas

Air raid pounding the land
Bombers are flying both day and night
Endure six days of rain
Dropped by invaders
bomb raid in vain

Strike hard,
the tables have turned
Drive them back over the hill
At arms!
Just like before
Soldiers,
civilians,
Hellas at war

By their own hand
Forced the enemy out of their land

Call to arms,
banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading
“Freedom or death!”
Blood of king Leonidas

Just like their ancestors ages ago
Fought in the face of defeaThose three hundred men
Left a pride to uphold
Freedom of death in effect

Then, now again
Blood of heroes saving their land

Call to arms,
banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading
“Freedom or death!”
Blood of king Leonidas

Call to arms,
banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading
“Freedom or death!”
Blood of king Leonidas

((HISTORY

The Greco-Italian war opposed Italy and Greece from the 28th of October 1940 until the 23rd of April 1941. The campaign’s objective was to establish a Greek puppet state which would allow the Italian annexation of the Ionian, Sporades and the Cyclades islands.

On the 28th of October, the Italian forces invaded Greece in several columns coming from Albania. On the 3rd November, the Italian spearhead was surrounded from all sides and reinforcements were unable to reach the cut-off Italian forces. The Italian defeat was followed by the Greek counter offensive which ended on the 6th of April 1941 was called the “first axis setback of the entire war” by Mark Mazower.

After reinforcing the front to 28 divisions, the Italians conducted a spring offensive in1941 which also failed. During the Battle of Greece, Greek and British forces in northern Greece were overwhelmed by the Germans, which advanced rapidly into Greece. The Italian army suffered more than 154’000 casualties and the Greek army suffered about 90’000 losses)