SABATON - Coat Of Arms (Official Lyric Video)

The official lyric video for "Coat Of Arms" by Sabaton. Taken from the album of the same name.

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========= Coat Of Arms LYRICS ==========

That dawn envoy arrives
Morning of October 28th
No day proven by deed
Descendants of Sparta,
Athens and Crete!

Look north, ready to fight
Enemies charge from the hills
To arms! Facing defeat!
There’s no surrender! There’s no retreat!

Time after time
Force their enemies back to the line
Call to arms banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading Freedom or death!
Blood of king Leonidas

Air raid pounding the land
Bombers are flying both day and night
Endure six days of rain
Dropped by invaders bomb raid in vain

Strike hard, the tables have turned
Drive them back over the hills
At arms! Just like before
Soldiers, civilians, Hellas at war

By their own hand
Forced their enemy out of their land

Call to arms, banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading Freedom or death!
Blood of king Leonidas

Just like their ancestors ages ago
Fought in the face of defeat
Those three hundred men
Left a pride to uphold
Freedom of death in effect

Then, now again
Blood of heroes saving their land

Call to arms, banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading Freedom or death!
Blood of king Leonidas

Call to arms, banners fly in the wind
For the glory of Hellas
Coat of arms reading Freedom or death!
Blood of king Leonidas

========= Historic Fact ==========

Prior to the Greco-Italian War’s commencement, the Greeks were given an ultimatum – to permit Italy’s occupation of certain strategic points in the country or face an Italian invasion. They chose to stand their ground and fight like their brave ancestors.

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[SpectralUmbreon]

Italian Army: "Hey, let's take Greece. That should be easy."

Some Persian guy with a time machine: "Don't."

[EoinJoyceMapping]

Germany: how is the invasion of Greece going?
Italy: you mean the defence of Albania?
Germany: the WHAT

[Benjamin-mlsv]

"When everyone in the world lost its hope, the Greeks were dared to challenge the invincible of the German monster raising against it the proud spirit of Freedom" - Roosevelt

[Nerobyrne]

Fun Fact:
Greece was one of the few countries occupied by Nazi Germany from which they didn't draw any prisoners to use as labor in Germany.

Why?
Because the Greeks were so dedicated to freedom, Germany was scared they'd start a rebellion.
They were probably right.

[ΓιώργοςΑργυρόπουλος-ου]

October 28th or "No day" is such a big part of Greek history, I'm so happy it is still being sung about even from non Greek people, thank you sabaton.

[lightbluewaves]

“Until now we used to say that the Greeks fight like heroes. Now we shall say: Heroes fight like Greeks.”

Winston Churchill

[wcg]

Italy: "Let's oof the greeks so that no one calls us weak"
Italy a few seconds later: *Gets pushed back and almost loses Albania
Germany: "What the fu-"

[tylercoon]

You can always count on Sabaton to give me a reason to wake up my neighbors at 4 AM

[Austin]

Emanuele Grazzi: This is madness!

Ioannis Metaxas: No. THIS! IS! HELLAS!

[kestrelthesoldier]

I do Greek as an additional language at my school, and when it's the 28th of October, I'm telling my Greek teacher to play this epic song! FOR THE GLORY OF HELLAS!!!!

[mattiaseven]

This song gives me the honor of the Greek soldiers. Good work Sabaton

[anondescriptbullet]

"Descendants of Sparta, Athens and *Crete* !"
Germany: *sweats in fallschirmjager*

[codandreas]

Proud Greek Cypriot thanks for honoring Greeks all around the world.

[anagiry]

Very atmospheric, glory to the heroes of Greece, and to King Leonidas

[wyvernscale]

There is nothing more heroic or showing such true Valor as the defending of one's home against insurmountable odds, at least in my eyes.
And every time I remember that, I'm reminded of Greece's valiant defence. A poor, critically undersupplied agrarian people defending their ancient land against the greatest military industry in Europe. It took a month for Nazi Germany to conquer Greece. It took only 3 weeks for it to conquer France, a major player in the first world War.
I'm not Greek, but I think I'm going to make a note to remember no day for the bravery shown by the great people of Greece, in the face of unwinnable odds.

[maximeraldeee]

Holy hell. Just after one listen, i fell in love this song. Love the higher tempo and especially the chorus with the choir supplrting Joakim. How does Sabaton always deliver?

[CalebVonGames]

Greeks have the annoying habit from an invader's perspective of consistently facing extremely unfavorable odds and still coming on top until the enemy finally drains their reserves after taking unimaginable casualties and fighting for an unthinkable amount of time according to the invader's original plan.

[mightycrusader]

Thank you once again for honoring the great sacrifices of our people during the Greco-Italian War of 1940-1941 through this lyric video. Glory and honor to our sacred fatherland Hellas and the heroes who felt for her.🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

[asabatonlessarmour]

7 years ago I was introduced to Sabaton by a friend and this was the song he played for me and ever since I've been a fan

[SgtPrice]

Greece doesn't get enough credit for their contribution to the war. Yes, they eventually fell, but they were the first country to prove to the world and especially Europe that the Axis powers were not invincible and that they could be beaten. And this song? An all-timer from Sabaton.