Roads to Moscow

Al Stewart's fantastic song 'Roads to Moscow' with a video I made from old WW2 newsreels.

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Music

Tags:

• Al
• Stewart
• Roads
• To
• Moscow
• Tanks
• WW2
• War
• Music

[JasonRadley]

You forgot the Poles who were stuck in the middle.

[sshendrix]

the video was good but I think you interpreted it wrong, it's from the soviet view not the german.

[pudster6969]

full version???

[hUGO7998]

I also watched the Moerdijk Bridge's, Holland 1940 ;)

[ozawaian]

oops.. a typo..... meant the tiger tank was not .... NOT in production during barbarossa and the russian campaign

[ozawaian]

yes. great song... al only made one  mistake.... the tiger tank was in production during the russian campaign..... but hey, he is good at history, and an artist can take liberties

[veechi1994]

this song always gives me chills down the spine its just so beutiful!

[SteveonLI]

cyber et al

thanks for adding this verse

this haunting verse ties the whole song together and also elevates it to a frightening new level

to be politically tainted, even for 'a day' -- was a serious war crime in stalinist USSR

this is a monumental al stewart song and i have wanted to sing it before a russian history class at a local college but i havent gotten up the nerve yet!!!

[musiccollektr]

i favourite this because it is a beautiful song and this is a very well done visual to go alongside it.

[cybersynaptics]

They turn and listen closer

I'll never know, I'll never know

Why I was taken from the line and all the others

To board a special train and journey deep into the heart of holy Russia

And it's cold and damp in the transit camp, and the air is still and sullen

And the pale sun of October whispers the snow will soon be coming

And I wonder when I'll be home again and the morning answers

"Never"

And the evening sighs and the steely Russian skies go on forever

[cybersynaptics]

missing the last verse..

I'm coming home, I'm coming home

Now you can taste it in the wind, the war is over

And I listen to the clicking of the train wheels as we roll across the border

And now they ask me of the time

That I was caught behind their lines and taken prisoner

"They only held me for a day, a lucky break", I say;

[JasonRadley]

Would it be a Russian or German car though? My Dad once bought a Lada so don't bullshit me.