Kris Kristofferson - The eagle and the bear (Breakthrough, 1989) video free download

Here's a playlist with more songs from that concert:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL28E357850AF8025F

The eagle and the bear

I will fight and I will die for freedom

Up against an eagle or a bear

And I will help my brother and we'll sink or swim together

And if you don't like it mister I don't care

'Cause I have served with honor in the army

I have seen a soldier overseas

I have seen my Fatherland stagger like a dying man

Blinded and bewildered by disease

And I ain't gonna take it any longer

I can't look around it anymore

I'll defend what I believe in a land of liberty

Like my father did before

And I'll just pray to God for Nicaragua

And the sorrow of El Salvador today

And I'll say until the day we free Mandela

All the world will be in chains

Der Adler und der Bär

Ich werde kämpfen und ich werde sterben für die Freiheit

Mich behaupten gegen den Adler oder den Bären.

Und ich werde meinem Bruder helfen

Und wir werden zusammen untergehen oder schwimmen.

Und wenn Ihnen das nicht gefällt, Mister, dann ist mir das egal.

Denn ich habe ehrenvoll in der Armee gedient.

Ich habe einen Soldaten in Übersee getroffen

Ich habe mein Vaterland gesehen, taumelnd wie ein sterbender Mann

Verblendet und verwirrt vom Leiden.

Und ich wird es nicht länger hinnehmen

Ich kann nicht mehr drüber hinweg sehen

Ich werde verteidigen, woran ich glaube in einem Land der Freiheit

Wie es schon mein Vater getan hat

Und ich bete zu Gott für Nikaragua

Und das Leid von El Salvador heutzutage

Und bis zum Tag, an dem wir Mandela befreien, werde ich sagen,

Die ganze Welt ist noch immer in Ketten...

The song is on Kris's album Third World Warrior (1990) with so meaningful and probably political songs that some people didn't (maybe still don't?) like. But I do- because they showed that Kris was caring about what was happening around... Some people never do.

The album is available with a double album (Repossessed,1986 and Third World Warrior, 1990)) titled "The country collection"

http://www.amazon.de/Country-Collection-Kris-Kristofferson/dp/B000024ZA4

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Country-Collection-Kris-Kristofferson/dp/B000024ZA4

http://www.amazon.com/Country-Collection-Kris-Kristofferson/dp/B000024ZA4

Kris's performance is from a concert at the Boulder Theatre in 1989, which was filmed and added by some touching montage footage to several of the songs, as well as some short interview parts in which Kris talks about his evolution from Vietnam volunteer to disillusioned patriot, about freedom and William Blake, to make an impressive documentary, which is available on dvd.

The dvd contains awesome performances of the songs:

Don' t let the bastards get you down,

The eagle and the bear,

Me and Bobby McGee,

Burden of freedom,

Aguila del norte,

Third World warrior,

Shipwrecked in the eighties,

The pilgrim,

They killed him,

The hero,

To beat the devil,

Third World War,

Under the gun.

http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Kris-Kristofferson/dp/B00027JYGC

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kris-Kristofferson-Breakthrough-Region-NTSC/dp/B00027JYGC