Gott Mitt Uns = God is With Us

Note: Sadly, the sound on this CDLC is not quite right either. It's hard to explain but I think most will be able to tell. I have no other version in Swedish and I wanted to play it.

This is my best attempt at this song because it's my 1st Attempt at this version of the song... I was trying to decide at the end how many notes I actually missed. It wasn't many.

According to Sabaton... Below is what the song is about:

"Led by Gustavus Adolphus, the Swedish army advances like a swarm of locusts through Germany. The soldiers leave a devastated countryside in their wake. The other side - the Catholic League and the Habsburg Imperial army - do their utmost to offer resistance.

The antagonists meet on 7 September 1631 on the open field near the village of Breitenfeld, outside Leipzig. The battle becomes the biggest of the Thirty Years' War. Gustavus Adolphus and the Swedish army, with Saxon reinforcements, face the Imperial army, which is accustomed to victory, under the command of General Tilly.

The Swedes go into battle under the war cry Gott Mit Uns - "God With Us". (This motto will later be handed down: first to the Prussian army, and later to the German army during World War I and finally to the Wehrmacht in World War II, when the motto is embossed on the soldiers' belt buckles.)

After seven hours of battle, the Swedish-Saxon army are victorious thanks to their exceptional discipline, great mobility and superior firepower. Twelve thousand men are dead on the battlefield.

The triumph at Breitenfeld in 1631 is the height of Gustavus Adolphus' military career. But the victory march continues: Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main and Munich are conquered. He gains a reputation as undefeatable. But he will not live long enough to realise his dream of becoming the Holy Roman Emperor.

Because the very next year, on 6th November, the King falls on the foggy battlefield outside the city of Lutzen in Eastern Germany. But the war goes on."

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