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Wir zogen in das Feld, (1539-1556CE), Germany/Italy (www.youtube.com)

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Conntext: Wir zogen in das Feld ("We marched towards the battlefields") comes from a five-part collection of songs, the Frische teutsche Liedlein written and published in 1539-1556 by the doctor, composer and song collector Georg Forster.

The song is sung in German with scatterings of Italian, it's about Landsknecht's (Early German Mercenaries) fighting for their Italian employers during the Italian Wars

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