Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Our Featured Unknown/Underrated Song This Week: "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin

Like so many of this group's releases, here's another great song which should have reached the Top 10 (It only reached #16).  When they came out, popular culture didn't know what to make of them, and they certainly didn't know how to make up charts gauging popularity.  We now know this as a rock classic, and the band as legendary:

"Immigrant Song"
by Led Zeppelin

Words and Music by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant

Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.
The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!

On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore.

Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore,
Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords.

On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore.

So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins,
For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing.

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