Song Parodies -> "A Fallen Soviet Hero"

Original Song Title:

"I Put a Spell on You"

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"A Fallen Soviet Hero"

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The Lyrics

This is the story of Lidya (aka Lilya) Litvak- the greatest female ace of all time with 12 kils, 1 balloon, and 3+ probables. She flew the Yak-1 and 1b, protecting Il-2s and routinely fending off many Me Bf 109 fighters. She was shot-dwon twice and yet got back in the cockpit one more time. The Luftwaffe wanted her dead and it took 8 Bf 109s to kill her. She landed inverted and split her skull- died instantly. Her plane and body, however, were not discovered until decades later and Mikhail Gorbachev awarded her the HSU (Hero of the Soviet Union) title in the '80s. She was truly a young and skilled female ace who died in her 20s. She was known as "The White Rose of Stalingrad" due to the propaganda myth that she had a painted white rose on her Yak-1. But she didn't. The truth was that she had flowers in her cockpit with her when she fought. A blonde beauty and a brave fighter for the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War, she will always be remembered...

A Fallen Soviet hero
Greatest female ace of all-time

Stalingrad will never forget you
Your Yak-1 combat flyin’
Was awe-inspirin’

Flowers in your cockpit
Chasin’ Messerschmitts around
Protecting Il-2s
You sent the German planes into the ground

A Fallen Soviet hero
Greatest female ace of all-time
Fought many 109s

They killed you
They killed you
They killed you
But they had to do it with eight,
to finish you with hate
HSU (Hero of the Soviet Union)
An inverted crash was your fate

The “White Rose” you shall forever be
A Fallen Soviet hero
Greatest female ace of all-time
(may you rest in eternal peace)

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Susanna Viljanen - May 13, 2011 - Report this comment

I liked this. I gave you all fives, although I had problems with pacing. Lilya Litvak has been one of my all-time heroines, and she is one of those forgotten aces of the WWII.

Susanna Viljanen - May 13, 2011 - Report this comment

Just one hint: Count the syllables on each stanza. One syllable corresponds to one beat on the song. " I-put-a-spell-on-you / be-cause-you're-mi-ine" (six/five). "You had a-fall-en-Sov-iet-he-ro/great-est-fe-male-ace-of-all-time" (seven/eight syllables). I would perhaps written "A fallen Red hero / she's top all the time" which basically implies the same, but has the count of the syllables on the original. It helps a lot on attempting to sing the song while you write!

Rob Arndt - May 13, 2011 - Report this comment

TY Susanna for the tip, but I am aware of the pacing and take the liberty as author to expand at will to either get a message through or provide tech details. SJH's song is now my #1 Base Song for topics like aircraft. I use it to teach. I'm also glad that you know and like Lilya Litvak. One of my next parodies will be on the Nachthexen (Night Witches) that used old Po-2s to harass the Germans at night at low-level. Then, maybe a song about some of the German female test pilots besides Hanna Reitsch. Women like Elli Beinhorn that named the Bf 108 "Taifun", Liesel Bach, Thea Rasche, and Melitta von Stauffenberg. Also, little-known Lindi Schumann and Melli Beese from WW1. Stay tuned...!!!

Patrick - May 13, 2011 - Report this comment

I go along with Susanna on the pacing. Perhaps you should try writing original songs, rather than parodies. I remember reading a story about a pilot who forced down an enemy plane somewhere in Russia. Can't recall if he was a German or Russian pilot. But for some reason he decided to land next to it, perhaps to nab a souvenir. The pilot of the downed plane was still alive. He jumped out of the cockpit, ran over to the enemy plane and took off, leaving its pilot alone in the middle of nowhere. Don't know how to say "Oh Sh.." in German or Russian, but can you even imagine what that pilot felt? See if you can find that story, I'm not sure now where I read it. On a similar note, I have heard that the last air to air engagement in Europe was between an American pilot in a Piper Cub who brought down a German in a Fiesler Storch by pointing a pistol at him. I think there is a team that reenacts that battle at air shows.

Rob Arndt - May 13, 2011 - Report this comment

Rudel often landed his Stuka when one of his buddies were forced down to pick him up- he did it many times under fire. As for the last engagement of WW2 was actually 4 days after VJ-Day when a B-32 Dominator was attacked by Japanese aircraft.... someday Patrick I will do a song parody about the dead LW pilot from the BoB that found his way home, or Rommel's solution for cold Coca-Cola in N Africa, or other oddities like the Habakkuk carrier, and so on ad infinitum...

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