The Green Fields of France - The Fureys & Davey Arthur

[showaddy11]

so much, plaintively and gentily more power than my anscesters empty guns. how dare they. but they do. again and again. thats what the chinless wonders do and bum about. what they done in the war .grandson. god help them. daveys rendition is as near as i can get. sorry polutishuns cant effir hear it

[jedicrap118]

Martin Furey's voice sounds exactly like his father's.

[gazamused]

FAIL....

[redfordforpresident]

P.S. Free Willy.

[MsPinkmouse]

I totally agree that this band has the most beautiful rendition of this song. First saw these guys in Dublin at the Wexford Inn live. Was great and I will never forget that performance. It still makes me cry.

[jedicrap118]

@MsPinkmouse you should really look up The High King's recording on their Memory Lane album. If you haven't heard of them, Finbar's son Martin is one of the four members.

[DublinGav]

what a voice.

Very emotinal stuff....

[TeamKilday]

Have loved this song for many years. Only just realised that it's by the same people who did "New York Girls" in Gangs of New York

[effend6]

Das ist Musik vom feinsten

[teee2]

Why do people never learn??Wars still continue

[c64c64c64]

@teee2

all wars begin ultimately from a primal desire to survive. It may sound misplaced, like a war for oil etc...but really it is a war for money, to ensure the financial well being of a country, and its future survival...

its not always bleak, but it is inevitable

[caslox]

great song with a great sentiment.

[gabmc1966]

a great song performed by a great band, the song is a great description of a terrible war and the total waste of human life pity we have not moved on and learned to live with each other

[GorbalsRebel]

Respond to this video... may Britains next shite be a dirty rabid hedgehog!!

[showaddy11]

my tearducts work  well when i listen to this song. i as many lost relatives in this absurd war.and it happens again and again. more the pity.

[showaddy11]

a seer told me that a relitive of mine lay over his brother his as he lay dying. a very important song.

[showaddy11]

yi canni play that tae soldiers. fire it up the warmongers,again and again

[357HFC]

The song was named "No Mans Land" but when sung like this Call it whatever fits. BRILLIANT

[surfin4]

amazing song

[showaddy11]

nothing solved. just proves they dont listen to a mother crying

[beardiep]

the fureys do a great song with passion to all those young men who died for the cause wat cause.

[mad291202]

pure class shivers

[agmkill3r]

Please remember those children so baeutifully remembered in this hymn but so disgracefully killed. Lets pray for them. tioch faidh arla. To uncle George only 19

[TAZRIO8]

Fantastic! I get gooosebumps listening to this (so sad) song. Way to go The Fureys and thanks for post.

[paddysboys]

The killing, and dying, was all done in vain,

For Willie McBride, it all happened again,

again, and again, and again, and again.

[michelstrogoff99]

Familiar sound. Love it. Thank you for posting.

[cuchukid]

beautiful song but this version sounds awful.

[neptunexox]

Agreed ! I saw them at Hammersmith Irish Club years ago & they were absolutely brilliant in singing this beautiful song but this is very below par & don't do it justice

[bebop58]

First time I heard this it was sung by an Irish boyfriend that I was not too sure about . But after hearing him sing this and seeing the passion he had I fell in love with him and the song ..

[starstyx]

I saw the Furies sing this in Aberdeen twenty something years ago and love the way the do this song, but check out the Corries. They give me the same tears.

[starstyx]

Finbar Fury, Ronnie Drew and the Corries........

Just that.

[buloo1234]

amazingly buitifully sang

[andypisces]

give a listen to hamish imlach singing this song.

[prick1000]

lad aint a person in ireland domt like all this kinda music from 1 year old to a 100years old dont matter what age

[chromadj]

I loved this song way back when I first heard it a concert in Cork, Ireland.

As the years go on, it takes on even more meaning, as those who previously have enjoyed this beautiful ballad, have themselves passed on.

As the famous saying goes - history is written by the oppressors, while the people write the songs.

Never a truer word spoken.

[LiveForMusic141]

dude i cant believe i found this...one of my friends played it on his ipod and i loved it...i kept trying to find it...all i typed in was "graveyard - irish band" and i found it!

[pammieok]

Oh my God Finbarr, you are wonderful!!!

[billiebigalo]

Eddie Fury also does good version of this great song, with Paul Fury (RIP) on the accordian

[ajondyh]

yes

[kirkups]

Finbar is the only one who can do it justice. I know it was written by a Scotsman but Finbar nails it everytime. Eric Bogle is playing in Newcastle in a few weeks time, can't wait...

[tlt689]

I adore his accent. seen Finbar sing this several times. he is the only guy that can sing this and hes gorgeuos too

[bradwalsh116]

amazing...

[DiceyRileyProduction]

finbar is the only man that can do this song justice,

even though it was written by a austrilan scot

i think only a irish accent can do this song

[MissCuriousBabes]

Love this song.... xxx

[glonglad]

May not be an Irish song but this is the definitive version, listen to the passion in the voice!

[plm3000]

Just wanted to say that I agree with you 100% They make the song their own, for me, there simply is no other version. Finbar's voice has an emotion to it that ew if any can match. Their song "The Old Man" brings tears to my eyes.

[bbeattie48]

with all due respect this isnt an irish song, its written by a man called Eric Bogle who is a scottish australian

[josparkes]

Very beautiful song annd a lovely tune,

typically irish in its beauty and mystery.

Not very loud though, there are other versions by the Furey's louder than this.

Brilliant song though.

Jo Sparkes

Norfolk

31/12/2008

[IrishandFolkmusic]

That was great, they were fantastic musicians.

Machree is this from Festival Folk?

[machree01]

It's from a Concert, filmed at "Grand Opera House" Belfast,"The Fureys & Davey Arthur". in the mid 80s.

[IrishandFolkmusic]

What other songs are on this concert Machree?

[sanmigw]

@IrishandFolkmusic Fantastic voice.

[chantdelouve]

The 19 years old Pte William McBride is buried in Authuille British Cemetery, near Albert and Beaumont-Hamel, where the Inniskilling Fusilliers were deployed as part of the 29th Division(Antiwar songs)

[machree01]

I seen a photo of his grave.

[wigsonthegreen]

@chantdelouve There was at least three persons with that name. It has never been established who Eric Bogle's song refers to with any certainty.

[gaconnochie]

@wigsonthegreen Or if it refers to any one person in particular. McBride obviously represents all the fallen. Hamish Imlach said he remembered Bogle writing the song in Germany a few days after Bogle had visited war cemetries. He'd remembered a name he'd seen and used that. I'd imagine probably only because McBride rhymed with graveside. whether it was actually a person called William or if the date 1916 and age 19 were significant or just made up for the song is unclear!