@3061535 - No doubt the Brits fought brilliantly against the Nazis, but as to the whole world "owing" them I suspect more than one country in the former British Empire wishes they never met them. History is complicated, and the English brutalized many people, too (and I say this an an American who holds them in high regard). A little balance, that's all...
No doubt the heart of this song is a sad and serious matter. However, it was written with such a black humour spirit and irony, that Kubrick chose it for the final scene of his film "Dr. Strangelove", and they fit perfectly.
I do not know how many times I have watched this clip. I enjoy it every time. You have to wonder how many of those RAF flyers never made it to the end of the war. A bright time in the middle of Hell.
Mangina9000.There were European countries who chose not to fight...Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland..reasons were varied. Whatever they were, their stance did nothing to enhance their histories. Certainly I am aware of the America First element in the USA as well as Fascist sympathizers like Joe Kennedy. Whether the Brits were fighting to defend their homeland or to destroy what Churchill knew to be unmitigated evil, I stand by my statement. The world can never repay them for holding the line.
NibsNiven-You are absolutely correct and I apologize for the omission. It was not intentional and I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to set the record straight.
Hey, don't forget the Americans! Such a poignant song - who knows how many of the men singing here didn't come home? God Bless You Dame Vera Lynn - you & your voice are so lovely here! What encouragement you must have given those fighting men. I cry every time I see this.
when I look at this I often wonder how many men and women in the audience never came back ... I genuinely feel for those guys and gals .. quite poingniant really .... I often think that some of them are looking down now and wonder what it was all for .. dreadfull waste..... so sad . I have great respect for all who fought Gods light and love to 'em' all
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill
Thank God for the Brits. Their contributions to the fields of music, physics, mathematics, science, language, literature, film, philosophy, engineering, medicine etc. etc. staggers the imagination.
The whole world owes the English, Scots and Welsh a debt of gratitude that never can be repaid. When nobody else could or would fight, they stood alone against evil. Other nations stood neutral when being neutral was cowardice. These three peoples stood up and fought ......alone, against a vastly superior military force. On this Fourth of July, I salute them and thank them. And thank you Dame Vera Lynn. You inspire people to this day and will forever.
@3061535 The whole worlds does NOT owe the English, Scots and Welsh. Don't get me wrong, I salute them in defending their homeland; but that's as far as it goes.
@3061535 "The whole world owes the English, Scots and Welsh a debt of gratitude that never can be repaid. When nobody else could or would fight, they stood alone against evil." Umm... thanks for ignoring the Canadians who volunteered by the hundreds of thousands within days of the start of the war, not to mention the many thousands who built and ran a merchant marine lifeline to the UK while they were picked off like flies by German U-boats.
It puzzles me why Yanks forget Canadians even exist...
@NibsNiven or even the fact qwe trained more airman than any other country in the war - 3ither side. or ended up with the 4th ;argest navy, the 4th ;argest air force and 20% of d-day duties. we also built and shipped more trucks than germany did. and 13% of our population\entered the services..
@3061535 It wasn't cowardice that kept America from joining the war. There was a natural and honest belief that Europeans should solve their own problems. Based on what Americans sacrificed in order to save Europe in WWI because of petty nationalism, it was a understandable sentiment.
Besides, there was very nearly a blood coup to overthrow FDR leading up to the war. This is censored from popular history, but getting involved with another bloody war was very controversial at that time.
@3061535 bollocks. we stood with you from the beginning. we always have stood with you - most of you hardly even know it. but those that do - they know what the canadians did.
Vera Lynn. My Father use to sing to her music Badly I might add. But he was in Bomber Command during World War 2. With RAAF 467 Squadron out of RAF Waddington. He was a Mid Upper Gunner on Lancasters
So moving that these troops, preparing for the hell of war and death, were spiritually siinging, recognining that when they would meet again, it might likely not be on earrth, but in the hereafter.What spirit and dedication to what they believed, Gog bless them all!
Dans son autobiographie "Allias Caracalla", Daniel Cordier, le secrétaire de Jean Moulin et ardent combattant de la France Libre se souvient du succès qu'avait alors cette chanson de Vera Lynn.
Note : On l'entend à la fin de "Docteur Folamour" de Stanley Kubrick où elle résonne d'une façon atroce puisqu'elle accompagne des images d'apocalypse nucléaire...
It brings tears to my eyes everytime I watch it. What a wonderful feeling of hope and promise. And Vera, such a sweet and unassuming natural talent, her charm and sensitivity is overwhelming. I was just 8 years old when the war started, and just discovered this Video. Thank you for posting it
This song brings me to tears every time. Her trembling voice is so angelic. And how can anyone not be moved by this video? Hearing her voice carry over the thousands of soldiers who were fighting for peace and may never return. It's incredibly touching. Thank you for posting such wonderful footage!
1:28 YouTube video: Vera Lynn singing We'll Meet Again.
March 20, 1917: birth of Vera Lynn, English actress and singer. She was called "The [World War II] Forces' Sweetheart" and the songs most associated with her are "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover."
THe sad history I have with this song has inspired me so much. If it weren't for all the traumae that came with this song I wouldn't be headed on the path I have going for me. So I'm thankful and depressed when ever I listen to it.
what talent. music from and around this era is absolutely incredible and timeless. musicians with real talent - both the singers and the people who played the instruments. sadly, music nowadays is garbage, nobody puts real effort into music anymore.
That is one of the prettiest bits of film I have ever seen :_-), and could Vera have looked anymore like the adorable English girl she was...wonderful footage, glad it has survived.
It's true that millions of people didn't come home from that war (and many, many other wars). But I'd like to think this song doesn't necessarily imply meeting again here on earth. I feel it's a promise of, if not meeting at home, then meeting somewhere in eternity. Also, all those perished millions continued, even after their deaths, to live in the hearts of their loved ones.
This is such a fantastic video, rockinhillbillies!
This is so so so beautiful and sad. The chorus with all those men singing something that most of them know that won't be real. Just beautiful and melancholic... it makes me cry everytime I watch it.
rogers waters says in the song that he meets vera lynn or he was mention to the song she singsh ironiclly that she was singing some fake song because the boys didnt make it? this is very deprresing song =/
Powerful, shaking piece of history. Diiferent times... these days we are all so sarcastic about everything. Such a moment could never materialize today.
@solidoxx though i wasnt born yet, and i was never there,but if you learn something you have the ability to remember it. i will never forget "the greatest generation".
This was the last song my grandma heard me sing before she passed a few weeks ago. I cry every time I hear this song and The White Cliffs of Dover. Two beautiful songs sung by a woman with the voice of an angel.
The first time I heard this it was the intro song for Pink Floyds "The Wall" I couldn't get it out of my head! what a beautiful voice! And now to find the video? What a great day!!.. She is amazing!!
My dear Vera, I cannot describe all these overwhelming emotions of seeing you and again listening to you after all these years. It may sound quite absurd, almost insane if I say that it feels like I was among those boys on that very day you sang for us… the strangest thing is that I’m only 51…
without the noble sacrifice of millions, billions might end up dead under nazi regime and halocaust atrocities, and Japanese slave labour camp in burma.
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The greatest sadness is though our boys fought totalitarianism during the Great War, America has capitulated to communism and socialism via Barack H Obama. I fear the free people no longer have the will to fight back and stop this dictator.
The RAF fought for their country with such pride & always beat staggering odds if a fellow pilot was killed they would remember him in their own special way celebrate his life & continue his battle for Britain in their hearts & heads as they fought
The squadrons remained a family the men gentlemen & the one think that was never lost was humour
As the RAF chaps use to say
May his life be long and prosperous & may all his bogeys be bandits!
I'd never seen footage of her singing to the troops before. In fact, I've hardly ever seen footage of her singing at all. Never realised she had buck teeth, which is rather sweet. Very moving, although White Cliffs of Dover is my favourite.
@MHJE ...yeah...takes the song to a whole new level for me after listening to it for almost 30 years. DOES ANYBODY else in heeeeeere, feel the way I do?
Yea, apparently as a small child Rogers resented Very Lynn a bit because she said they'd meet again but Roger never saw his after again, he never came home as Lynn said. Roger's father was killed in the campaign in Italy.
so many of us . . really only know vera lynn from that reference to her in the movie pink floyd ' the wall ' ... that's how i found this lovely video . . . dougie in austin age 41
Yea, Roger's father never came home from the war (was killed). So Rogers is asking what happened to Vera Lynn and her promise of meeting the troops again.
This makes me sad for all of those that lost their loved one in the war. They moved on with their lives for years and years, never able to find out how things would have been otherwise. I feel some guilt for being "missed' by the major conflicts and never having to deal with that.
@ToBeDisabledSoon: Rubbish. The song was popular because it encapsulated peoples' hopes that what they most feared might not come true. It says: No matter what happens I believe, and I know you believe it too, we'll come through, whatever happens, and meet again in this life, there being no other after.'
Purely my opinion, and I'm sure that those who grew up in the sight of 'God' and far beyond the range of German bombs and missiles know far better than I.
@WilliamGruff as I said "I'm not 100% sure but that's my guess" but I'm not a uppity asshole so you'd know better than I. Don't forget to randomly attack everyone who mentions anything similar on here. Hey, someone's grandma died. You better get on them too! Asshole.
@WilliamGruff who said this: "I'm sure that those who grew up in the sight of 'God' and far beyond the range of German bombs and missiles know far better than I."??? It wasn't me. I "adopted" YOUR tone. YOU chose to be pious or mean or whatever. I however, was merely defending myself. This will be MY last response. I bet you are immature enough to NOT shut up.
@ToBeDisabledSoon: Good try but, sadly, not mature enough. Although you've announced your intention of eschewing subsequent replies I'm prepared to allow you the last word.
As an aside: Do you know what a minnow is, and what is done with it?
The song had both meanings when it was written (1939) at the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany:
On one hand it was interpreted as hope and optimism.
On the other hand it was interpreted as recognition of the fate that awaited most soldiers, who would hopefully meet their loved ones again — in heaven.
The British were not naïve; they knew what they were up against. Just 21 years earlier, they had fought another terrible war against the German war machine.
It's hard to find words to describe the emotion it evokes. As many others wrote here, one can't avoid the feeling that something very important has been lost since those days. Good we stil can see and hear her.
Vera's original 40's version is sooo good! Another excellent version is by P.J.Proby & his is the best male version out there! Three cheers for Dame Edna & Sir P.J.Proby Ron
i will never forget her. a person woulod have t be without a soul to forget her.
happygael 8 hours ago
HEJ HILSEN Ali FRA 9.B !!!
FrederikAntero 2 days ago
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FrederikAntero 2 days ago
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
PetrK 4 days ago
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PetrK 4 days ago
@3061535 - No doubt the Brits fought brilliantly against the Nazis, but as to the whole world "owing" them I suspect more than one country in the former British Empire wishes they never met them. History is complicated, and the English brutalized many people, too (and I say this an an American who holds them in high regard). A little balance, that's all...
onedrop7 1 month ago
No doubt the heart of this song is a sad and serious matter. However, it was written with such a black humour spirit and irony, that Kubrick chose it for the final scene of his film "Dr. Strangelove", and they fit perfectly.
aniagain1 1 month ago
I do not know how many times I have watched this clip. I enjoy it every time. You have to wonder how many of those RAF flyers never made it to the end of the war. A bright time in the middle of Hell.
phenumonia 1 month ago
Face like a horse, but it's Truppenbetreung.
pelle9911 2 months ago
Mangina9000.There were European countries who chose not to fight...Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland..reasons were varied. Whatever they were, their stance did nothing to enhance their histories. Certainly I am aware of the America First element in the USA as well as Fascist sympathizers like Joe Kennedy. Whether the Brits were fighting to defend their homeland or to destroy what Churchill knew to be unmitigated evil, I stand by my statement. The world can never repay them for holding the line.
3061535 2 months ago
NibsNiven-You are absolutely correct and I apologize for the omission. It was not intentional and I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to set the record straight.
3061535 2 months ago
ich liebe die englaender aber bomber harriss hat dresden kaputtgemacht
MrAlfred1930 2 months ago
Wonderful song, meaning, and wonderful moment ...
Does anyone know when or where did this performance take place?
I am doing an assignment for my studies and I'd want to try to find this video in better quality...
SomeJames 3 months ago
Can you believe she's still alive
samdiego 3 months ago
@samdiego wooow!!!! that's great
MikeMySweetAngel 2 months ago
Damn i wish i had this video in HD
RastamanVibrations91 3 months ago
they all met again. on earth or in a place like heaven.
MissLittleHumanBeing 3 months ago
charisma!
MissLittleHumanBeing 3 months ago
*meet
Elizzlebizzlfly 3 months ago
Hey, don't forget the Americans! Such a poignant song - who knows how many of the men singing here didn't come home? God Bless You Dame Vera Lynn - you & your voice are so lovely here! What encouragement you must have given those fighting men. I cry every time I see this.
Crownsford 4 months ago
Vera... Vera... What has become of you?
1988wonderwoman 4 months ago
bomber harris war dee dumme sau
MrAlfred1930 4 months ago
Mein Fueher I can WALK!
Bigum99 4 months ago
Know this song after watching Doctor Strangelove. It must be very popular in Britain.
Francesko263 5 months ago
who in gods name would dislike this!!!
koolarrowu2 6 months ago
id love to have met this woman...
Msgummybear202 6 months ago
when I look at this I often wonder how many men and women in the audience never came back ... I genuinely feel for those guys and gals .. quite poingniant really .... I often think that some of them are looking down now and wonder what it was all for .. dreadfull waste..... so sad . I have great respect for all who fought Gods light and love to 'em' all
MrMickmonk 6 months ago 2
Hi Im 13 and sang this at a charity event , my video is above could you please take a look.
lilsaprano123 6 months ago
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill
Thank God for the Brits. Their contributions to the fields of music, physics, mathematics, science, language, literature, film, philosophy, engineering, medicine etc. etc. staggers the imagination.
MaceMn 6 months ago 2
@TheAnneLeveridge vera lynn lives with her son in the south of france. and is well into her 90's now.
TheSandsie13 6 months ago
Love this.
coffeescup 6 months ago
The whole world owes the English, Scots and Welsh a debt of gratitude that never can be repaid. When nobody else could or would fight, they stood alone against evil. Other nations stood neutral when being neutral was cowardice. These three peoples stood up and fought ......alone, against a vastly superior military force. On this Fourth of July, I salute them and thank them. And thank you Dame Vera Lynn. You inspire people to this day and will forever.
3061535 7 months ago 11
@3061535 Seems like you have been fed a metric shit ton of bullshit.
allu771 3 months ago
@3061535 The whole worlds does NOT owe the English, Scots and Welsh. Don't get me wrong, I salute them in defending their homeland; but that's as far as it goes.
akdma1 2 months ago
@3061535 "The whole world owes the English, Scots and Welsh a debt of gratitude that never can be repaid. When nobody else could or would fight, they stood alone against evil." Umm... thanks for ignoring the Canadians who volunteered by the hundreds of thousands within days of the start of the war, not to mention the many thousands who built and ran a merchant marine lifeline to the UK while they were picked off like flies by German U-boats.
It puzzles me why Yanks forget Canadians even exist...
NibsNiven 2 months ago 2
@NibsNiven or even the fact qwe trained more airman than any other country in the war - 3ither side. or ended up with the 4th ;argest navy, the 4th ;argest air force and 20% of d-day duties. we also built and shipped more trucks than germany did. and 13% of our population\entered the services..
UpstairsMaid 1 month ago
@3061535 It wasn't cowardice that kept America from joining the war. There was a natural and honest belief that Europeans should solve their own problems. Based on what Americans sacrificed in order to save Europe in WWI because of petty nationalism, it was a understandable sentiment.
Besides, there was very nearly a blood coup to overthrow FDR leading up to the war. This is censored from popular history, but getting involved with another bloody war was very controversial at that time.
Mangina9000 2 months ago
@3061535 Reading that comment sent shivers all around my body.
FloppyDickNation 2 months ago
@3061535 Americans?
gmaster4444 1 month ago
@3061535 bollocks. we stood with you from the beginning. we always have stood with you - most of you hardly even know it. but those that do - they know what the canadians did.
UpstairsMaid 1 month ago
Thank America for bailing them out, not once, but twice.
seaweed555 3 weeks ago
Vera Lynn. My Father use to sing to her music Badly I might add. But he was in Bomber Command during World War 2. With RAAF 467 Squadron out of RAF Waddington. He was a Mid Upper Gunner on Lancasters
Sipatbana 7 months ago
So moving that these troops, preparing for the hell of war and death, were spiritually siinging, recognining that when they would meet again, it might likely not be on earrth, but in the hereafter.What spirit and dedication to what they believed, Gog bless them all!
Frank
promyomy 7 months ago
Brave british troops who fought by their country, but in so many ways, for the freedom of the whole world. God bless you all.
aldo3g 8 months ago
I find this song intensely menacing.
kaaosaf 8 months ago
Dans son autobiographie "Allias Caracalla", Daniel Cordier, le secrétaire de Jean Moulin et ardent combattant de la France Libre se souvient du succès qu'avait alors cette chanson de Vera Lynn.
Note : On l'entend à la fin de "Docteur Folamour" de Stanley Kubrick où elle résonne d'une façon atroce puisqu'elle accompagne des images d'apocalypse nucléaire...
melmothII 8 months ago
ET AU FAIT CONNARD JEFFACERAI MES COMMENTAIRES ET JARRETERAI DE TEMBETER QUE QUAND TU MAURAS REPONDU
QUAND ON ME CHERCHE ON ME TROUVE
ESPECE DE CONNARD VA
FannyAlice1 6 months ago
great!
sovietmovie 8 months ago
good!!!!!!!! thanks for video!!
you2022 8 months ago
this song makes me cry
musicalbwayfreak 9 months ago 2
It brings tears to my eyes everytime I watch it. What a wonderful feeling of hope and promise. And Vera, such a sweet and unassuming natural talent, her charm and sensitivity is overwhelming. I was just 8 years old when the war started, and just discovered this Video. Thank you for posting it
John Mason from Brooklyn NY USA
Jmason338 9 months ago 7
this song is in salad fingers
spiderlily21 9 months ago
This song brings me to tears every time. Her trembling voice is so angelic. And how can anyone not be moved by this video? Hearing her voice carry over the thousands of soldiers who were fighting for peace and may never return. It's incredibly touching. Thank you for posting such wonderful footage!
robert3984 9 months ago
There'll Always Be An England ;)
KaiserJames 9 months ago
snif*
gothpi 9 months ago
9 people did not liked this video?
hmm ... must be fans of Lady Gaga
ehehhehe....
manticoretuga 9 months ago
ohhhh....my......goddddd..........the voice
manticoretuga 9 months ago
this song reminds me of my gran she was always singing it, it reminds me of her everytime i hear it
lindacorroy 10 months ago
she came to our school :)
oxoxHollie 10 months ago
1:28 YouTube video: Vera Lynn singing We'll Meet Again.
March 20, 1917: birth of Vera Lynn, English actress and singer. She was called "The [World War II] Forces' Sweetheart" and the songs most associated with her are "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover."
mkworkman 10 months ago
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A wonderful song from a remarkable woman who turned 94 yesterday and still going strong. If only young women today used Vera Lynn as a role model.
dougthespud 10 months ago
A Great Happy Birthday to Dame Vera Lynn who turns 94 today..God Bless you
lilsteve68 10 months ago
they did meet again.. only it was already in heaven :'(
sabvilla 10 months ago
@sabvilla she's still alive? :P
zomgitsnolan 10 months ago
@zomgitsnolan Yes, she's still alive and today is her 94th birthday.
Bruin007 10 months ago
@zomgitsnolan Yes, she's still alive and today is her 94th birthday.
Bruin007 10 months ago
Her voice is so beautiful.
Ponteptone 11 months ago
When I was 5 years old the world war II was over, it´sa pity the millions never met again. Thanks for this master picece!!!
machadoneto41 11 months ago
It made me cry when "Nightigale Sang in Berkley Square" was removed! We'll meet again good and dear Dame.
Puronicth 1 year ago
it makes me cry,when i see that they all singing together
MrBaddel77 1 year ago
How lovely; how moving!
7inga7 1 year ago
@420SensiStar I'm pretty sure he isn't one, though. :)
MHJE 1 year ago
bomber harriss hat unser land ausradiert aber ich liebe die englaender aber dresden war ne schande
rainer194o 1 year ago
8 people won't meet again.
deskset24 1 year ago
THe sad history I have with this song has inspired me so much. If it weren't for all the traumae that came with this song I wouldn't be headed on the path I have going for me. So I'm thankful and depressed when ever I listen to it.
MexicanoINC 1 year ago
what talent. music from and around this era is absolutely incredible and timeless. musicians with real talent - both the singers and the people who played the instruments. sadly, music nowadays is garbage, nobody puts real effort into music anymore.
adm1ackbar 1 year ago
One of my favorite voices of the 40s. Love her voice in "I Had the Craziest Dream"...so lovely.
CQ20Queen 1 year ago
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so many of us . . really only know her from the pink floyd reference ... that's how i found this lovely video . . . dougie in austin age 41
deepbluehue3 1 year ago
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Here is my own acoustic cover of this song:
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Carlos Naveda - Donatello and the Musketeers
donatellomusketeers 1 year ago
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Here is my own acoustic cover of this song:
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Carlos Naveda - Donatello and the Musketeers
donatellomusketeers 1 year ago
Though I was born so many years later, her song brings me some sad and I don't know why... thanks a lot to share it.
amantedejanis 1 year ago 4
@amantedejanis It depends on what you believe in...
CMLLIS 1 year ago
England sheltered Norway's royal family from the Nazi occupation. I lived in
Oslo in the '70s, and whenever this song was played, older Norwegians cried.
Her song, on the BBC, had consoled them; their king would come home one day, and Norway would be at peace again.
fgcrna 1 year ago
Je nadherná
revellak1 1 year ago
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day?
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else in here
Feel the way I do?
TheAnneLeveridge 1 year ago 33
@TheAnneLeveridge Pink Floyd is amazing. That song makes me want to cry it's so beautiful :)
GuitarSpazz 1 year ago
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@TheAnneLeveridge I do, more than you ever know.
CMLLIS 1 year ago
@TheAnneLeveridge ,)
peterdreamworld 9 months ago
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@TheAnneLeveridge ;)
peterdreamworld 9 months ago
@TheAnneLeveridge This is a wonderful song. I wish I would find Auf Wiedersehen again on YouTube. I miss it!
HowDareThey1970 9 months ago
@TheAnneLeveridge
Years later, her song was published again. So you can meet again. I read in the newspaper about her as an old woman, some weeks ago.
SandrineDanielle 6 months ago
@TheAnneLeveridge PFTW
LedColin 3 months ago
That is one of the prettiest bits of film I have ever seen :_-), and could Vera have looked anymore like the adorable English girl she was...wonderful footage, glad it has survived.
gurlsingerfan 1 year ago 5
Vera means Faith.
vinofiamma 1 year ago 2
It's true that millions of people didn't come home from that war (and many, many other wars). But I'd like to think this song doesn't necessarily imply meeting again here on earth. I feel it's a promise of, if not meeting at home, then meeting somewhere in eternity. Also, all those perished millions continued, even after their deaths, to live in the hearts of their loved ones.
This is such a fantastic video, rockinhillbillies!
Smalltowngal29 1 year ago 7
This is so so so beautiful and sad. The chorus with all those men singing something that most of them know that won't be real. Just beautiful and melancholic... it makes me cry everytime I watch it.
LuxClassical 1 year ago 5
@LuxClassical I feel exactly the way you do and I'm not ashamed to say it.
CMLLIS 1 year ago
rogers waters says in the song that he meets vera lynn or he was mention to the song she singsh ironiclly that she was singing some fake song because the boys didnt make it? this is very deprresing song =/
EuTuboSim2010 1 year ago
Powerful, shaking piece of history. Diiferent times... these days we are all so sarcastic about everything. Such a moment could never materialize today.
YoC75 1 year ago 2
I love how they sing with her. All these men, knowing all the lyrics. So wistful, and true that they probably never met again..
thirteenpiecesofgum 1 year ago 4
yes they did . . . some just didn't meet up in this life.
RamirezGates 1 year ago 2
where was this vid taken
sexxiimotherfukah 1 year ago
im hoping to meet this amzing lady tomorrow and im really excited!
vikingsraven 1 year ago
it was a more civil time ............ even with a world war. The politeness of the crowd .... it makes me sad to think about future generations.
rdeed 1 year ago 5
wunderschön
teooli 1 year ago 2
Wow 6 Bolsheviks did not like this video!
emerging2012 1 year ago
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
solidoxx 1 year ago 2
@solidoxx though i wasnt born yet, and i was never there,but if you learn something you have the ability to remember it. i will never forget "the greatest generation".
searspoint05 1 year ago
This was the last song my grandma heard me sing before she passed a few weeks ago. I cry every time I hear this song and The White Cliffs of Dover. Two beautiful songs sung by a woman with the voice of an angel.
noodlelon 1 year ago 29
The first time I heard this it was the intro song for Pink Floyds "The Wall" I couldn't get it out of my head! what a beautiful voice! And now to find the video? What a great day!!.. She is amazing!!
ConcertLites4you 1 year ago
I believe we'll all meet again someday.
purps45 1 year ago 6
WOW! Just incredible! What a SONG! And what an artist! The GREAT DAME Vera Lynn. What a treasure!
CarloQuinto 1 year ago
you know what im 26 years and i love vera lynn. she has got a beautiful voice and she's a true legend. thanks for uploading this.
02uk 1 year ago 5
My dear Vera, I cannot describe all these overwhelming emotions of seeing you and again listening to you after all these years. It may sound quite absurd, almost insane if I say that it feels like I was among those boys on that very day you sang for us… the strangest thing is that I’m only 51…
CMLLIS 1 year ago
MHJE - Last I saw, she is still around at about
94! I think this is the most spine tingling WWII song
of all!
MultiDKenny 1 year ago
I agree many never made it back......sad moving song....
1912cunard 1 year ago
@4DistanceX thats what i believe in the song meet again as the afterife.. god bless em all..
19smokey19 1 year ago
le canzoni che ci ho speranza per un lieto fine
TheScothern 1 year ago
without the noble sacrifice of millions, billions might end up dead under nazi regime and halocaust atrocities, and Japanese slave labour camp in burma.
Najismongolia 1 year ago
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The greatest sadness is though our boys fought totalitarianism during the Great War, America has capitulated to communism and socialism via Barack H Obama. I fear the free people no longer have the will to fight back and stop this dictator.
mwngw 1 year ago
it tears me up wondering how many of those boys came home from that damned war. what a sorrow and shame for all of us.
dirtyblondny 1 year ago 2
It was amazing to think that Vera was a cockney born and bred yet the diction in her songs was perfect.
leoseries 1 year ago
made me cry :'(
polkadotpolka123 1 year ago
Thx for share. Very very nice!
from France.
VentduSud13 1 year ago
Full points for RAF, as usual.
Najismongolia 1 year ago
:O RAF
You have to hurry up with the time machinese
The RAF fought for their country with such pride & always beat staggering odds if a fellow pilot was killed they would remember him in their own special way celebrate his life & continue his battle for Britain in their hearts & heads as they fought
The squadrons remained a family the men gentlemen & the one think that was never lost was humour
As the RAF chaps use to say
May his life be long and prosperous & may all his bogeys be bandits!
FuelledByForties 1 year ago
Roger Waters is one of the most brilliant poet/song writers of our time.
godisdeadagain 1 year ago 2
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well you have a buck face and are a basterd
uhfnutbar1 2 years ago
I'd never seen footage of her singing to the troops before. In fact, I've hardly ever seen footage of her singing at all. Never realised she had buck teeth, which is rather sweet. Very moving, although White Cliffs of Dover is my favourite.
Eyoki777 2 years ago 2
Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day?
Vera, Vera.. what has become of you?
MHJE 2 years ago 76
@MHJE ...yeah...takes the song to a whole new level for me after listening to it for almost 30 years. DOES ANYBODY else in heeeeeere, feel the way I do?
blueflamealley 2 years ago 2
A little pink in you eh?
JEG54 2 years ago
Yea, apparently as a small child Rogers resented Very Lynn a bit because she said they'd meet again but Roger never saw his after again, he never came home as Lynn said. Roger's father was killed in the campaign in Italy.
RobertGary1 1 year ago
@MHJE Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? (Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?)
AtahualpaGoldstein 1 year ago
@MHJE shes still around you will be happy to know, and looking great at 93 i think she is.
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@MHJE shes still around you will be happy to know, and looking great at 93 i think she is.
tc030564 1 year ago
@MHJE
Keep your filthy hands off my desert!!
petewingnut 1 year ago
@MHJE she's still backing the troops..some 70 years later
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@MHJE
so many of us . . really only know vera lynn from that reference to her in the movie pink floyd ' the wall ' ... that's how i found this lovely video . . . dougie in austin age 41
deepbluehue3 1 year ago
@MHJE roger waters probably thought this song was ironic since he never got to see his father ever again
Pwnzor024 1 year ago
@Pwnzor024 Thanks, didn't know that when I randomly typed Roger Waters' lyrics to random videos. *cough* :p
MHJE 1 year ago
@MHJE you just gave me goosebunps.. O_o
WoBr 1 year ago
Ah, so this is what Roger Waters was singing about
Cyanesence 2 years ago 8
:P .
cetko13 2 years ago
Yea, Roger's father never came home from the war (was killed). So Rogers is asking what happened to Vera Lynn and her promise of meeting the troops again.
RobertGary1 1 year ago
shes 92
playgirlf14 2 years ago 3
were learning about ww2 at school and we sing this song and i love it did u know she is now 92 or 93???
star12317 2 years ago
Yes of course.
And she only just stopped performing, she is on facebook.
nederland4045 2 years ago 2
omg i sort ov like thissung now me and my classhad to lean it at school .... just for our ww1 and ww2 assembly :|
misssophia2525 2 years ago
adoro como canta esta mujer
InMoRtAl141 2 years ago
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fuck m.cliff school!pussy!
bukemaster 2 years ago
This makes me sad for all of those that lost their loved one in the war. They moved on with their lives for years and years, never able to find out how things would have been otherwise. I feel some guilt for being "missed' by the major conflicts and never having to deal with that.
jscharpf 2 years ago 3
i totally agree Randy02116. you are absolutely right about that.....
missaussiegirl01 2 years ago
the saddest part is, millions never met again
redredreds100 2 years ago 91
@redredreds100 im crying now :`(
123Rosko 1 year ago
@123Rosko a good cry, is healthy
redredreds100 1 year ago 2
@redredreds100 You're so right.
CMLLIS 1 year ago
@redredreds100 I think her point is even when the person dies, you will meet them once again once you die yourself. :D brilliant song.
DeenHartley 1 year ago
@redredreds100 actually I think the point of the song is that we'll be reunited in the afterlife. I'm not 100% sure but that's my guess.
ToBeDisabledSoon 1 year ago
@ToBeDisabledSoon: Rubbish. The song was popular because it encapsulated peoples' hopes that what they most feared might not come true. It says: No matter what happens I believe, and I know you believe it too, we'll come through, whatever happens, and meet again in this life, there being no other after.'
Purely my opinion, and I'm sure that those who grew up in the sight of 'God' and far beyond the range of German bombs and missiles know far better than I.
WilliamGruff 10 months ago
@WilliamGruff as I said "I'm not 100% sure but that's my guess" but I'm not a uppity asshole so you'd know better than I. Don't forget to randomly attack everyone who mentions anything similar on here. Hey, someone's grandma died. You better get on them too! Asshole.
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@redredreds100 I think her point is even when the person dies, you will meet them once again once you die yourself. :D brilliant song.
DeenHartley 4 months ago
@redredreds100 actually I think the point of the song is that we'll be reunited in the afterlife. I'm not 100% sure but that's my guess.
ToBeDisabledSoon 2 months ago Did either of us ask or mention you?
ToBeDisabledSoon 10 months ago
@ToBeDisabledSoon: You are an arsehole and were you not 'uppity' you wouldn't have adopted that tone.
WilliamGruff 10 months ago
@WilliamGruff who said this: "I'm sure that those who grew up in the sight of 'God' and far beyond the range of German bombs and missiles know far better than I."??? It wasn't me. I "adopted" YOUR tone. YOU chose to be pious or mean or whatever. I however, was merely defending myself. This will be MY last response. I bet you are immature enough to NOT shut up.
ToBeDisabledSoon 10 months ago
@ToBeDisabledSoon: Good try but, sadly, not mature enough. Although you've announced your intention of eschewing subsequent replies I'm prepared to allow you the last word.
As an aside: Do you know what a minnow is, and what is done with it?
WilliamGruff 10 months ago
@WilliamGruff
The song had both meanings when it was written (1939) at the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany:
On one hand it was interpreted as hope and optimism.
On the other hand it was interpreted as recognition of the fate that awaited most soldiers, who would hopefully meet their loved ones again — in heaven.
The British were not naïve; they knew what they were up against. Just 21 years earlier, they had fought another terrible war against the German war machine.
substanti8 6 months ago
@redredreds100 i agree it is sad
oldstuffandcollect 11 months ago
She is still incredably beautiful to this day at over 90 years old.
MagsandIzzy 2 years ago 3
It's hard to find words to describe the emotion it evokes. As many others wrote here, one can't avoid the feeling that something very important has been lost since those days. Good we stil can see and hear her.
Francisco, from Brazil
francisco3111949 2 years ago 5
@francisco3111949 I entirely agree with you my friend.
CMLLIS 1 year ago
Dammit this song always get me.
darko84hc 2 years ago 3
She lived up to her nickname, "The Forces' Sweetheart". A beautiful little video that shows another side of WWII heroes.
DanielGardner 2 years ago 4
This is A Tearjerker
Many Thanks
sessnazx 2 years ago
so great she was (and still is)
zalagadola 2 years ago 4
Vera's original 40's version is sooo good! Another excellent version is by P.J.Proby & his is the best male version out there! Three cheers for Dame Edna & Sir P.J.Proby Ron
rontenn 2 years ago