Its an incredible song and amazing that yours niece truly understands it. I love it and it really hits home now after loosing my grandfather unexpectedly. He wasn' in WWI or WWII but was in the Navy.
I am in the last few years of my life and I have lost friends and brothers in two wars. I could only hope that the future generation will learn from the past, but we know that they won't and songs like this will go on untill we learn no mater how right the reason our young pay the ultimate price. Those of us left behind even though we served and survive we ask why!
"Did you really believe them when they told you when they told you the cause? Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well the suffering the sorrow, the glory the shame. The killin and dying it was all done in vein. Oh Willie McBride it all happened again, and again and again and again and again."
"Did you really believe them when they told you when they told you the cause? Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well the suffering the sorrow, the glory the shame. The killin and dying it was all done in vein. Oh Willie McBride it all happened again, and again and again and again and again."
Again and again and again Wow some sad reason its true it shouldn't why should we fight over silly things like land! Why kill innocent men and wiman children even!
God love your little niece; as you wrote, she must truly be an "old soul." I wish more people knew this song, not just the tune, but "knew" the words and gave them a moment of reflection. First heard this in the early 90s, when covered by the Scots band, "North Sea Gas," and it's always been impossible for me not get choked up each and every time.
I just wished people had more respect for these BRAVE innocent people who actually risked there lives to make what the world is today Respect for these people who were lost in this terrible Event.
After having listened to this, I sat up, while feeling chills of adoration down my spine... And was ashamed of being so ungrateful, sometimes. And thought about those men who were certainly far from Governments' shifty plots, those men who wanted but to defend their children, their wife, their country... Those men instrumentalised by bureaucrats (a bit caricatured but still true), who thought that the 'cause' was worthwhile... And who, despite their factitious hatred...
awesome song, great video....always makes me tear up cuz in the almost 100 years since the Great War began all we've learned is how to make better killing technology.....
@Hecknslai We're getting to world peace, believe it or not but even with the wars raging now, we are getting better. The first step is to try not to kill civilians, the next step is to not need an army, the last step is for countries to not want armies.
@OldSkoolThrasher666 Yep as you said, fully teared up. The futility, that every generation of politicians feel they have to send another generation of our sons and daughters into the shite of a slaughter that marks their place in history. Will there ever come a time when the power mongers can play their imbecilic games without killing someones children. Thanks for posting these beautiful thoughts and scenes.
@OldSkoolThrasher666 : I just hope Willie saves a place for a Desert Shield/ Vietnam soldier. Even if it's not in Heaven, like him.---COL Dick; Gig Harbor, WA
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, there were eight soldiers named "William McBride", and a further six listed as "W. McBride", who died in France or Belgium during the first World War. All of wich survived in an Irish regiment.
The 100 years previous the brave wullies family could have been kicked off their own lands in the Highlands to make way for sheep. Wullies relatives would have left Scotland for Australia,Canada,new Zealand. Kicked out Britain! They owed the country nothing.
This is bizarre. Probably the greatest anti war song ever written and yet read these comments. Absolute imbeciles arguing as to who's country has the hardest soldiers. I'd quite like for the eight year old niece who asked for this video to talk to some of these bafoons and tell them to grow up. I'm British, and I really couldn't give a damn when America joined the war. Fact is...they died just like we did. A life is a life and WAR IS STUPID! Grow up morons!
@MrChrisastin But if they can't compare dic- I mean, armies, how will they know who's the bigger man? How will they know who's the Alpha Male, the Man among Men, the Head Honcho of Mount Testosterone?
Has there ever been a Man who became famous and loved for his peaceful ways? For his contributions to Science and Art not related to Death or War?
Just look at God! When people piss him off, is it "Love" and "Forgiveness"? No! It's brimstone and hell-
@LordSia13 I think the man you're looking for is Ghandi. He managed to free India from the British Imperial yoke by entirely peaceful means and is know and revered by many.
ok so about all that, yeah we came in the end of WWI, but you forget it was NOT our war, we didnt want to be involved but eventually we came to aid Britian. We sent our men to die for you. SO show some fucking respect you fucking brit.
A quite staggering version of a truly great song. Loyalists are 'loyal' to a country that thinks they are scum and wishes they were all dead - how stupid is that?
"One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
i see the message of this song hasn't been listened too. your all fighting amongst yourselves about who did what in whatever war, but missing the point.
i suggest you LISTEN to the message, and have a wee think about what it REALLY means....
sad song but whats it got to do with America,you fought for 2 weeks in world war 1 and less than any one else in ww2 ,countrys like Australia and New zealand lost more per head of population in both wars than either france or russia in both wars.
@TheShottaz we were there from the word go... and our SAS did more in the afghan war than the yanks... sorry to say but we aren't pussies compared to those that hide behind their mother's skirts. no one ever knew we were there cus even the rest of the world are afraid of the SAS. point is, wake up... america is as human as the rest of the world.. may all the fallen be remembered regardless, lest we forget.....
@sparhawk29 lol that's a funny comment, i dont recall saying anyone was a pussy or hid behind there mother's skirt...and when you say 'america is as human as everybody else' well it is contridictory to your statement that the entire world feared these superhuman sas...i dont need to wake up, i know what happened, we kicked ass on both sides of the world
@bouldercity08 i don't really respect them... If they wouldn't have gone fighting there wouldn't have been a war!!! People always say they are proud of the people fighting for their country, but it is because of these same people that wars keep existing
@petwoman727 If it wasn't for these brave men and women fighting for our freedom you wouldn't be here mouthing off about respect. You have to earn respect and I would say 90% of our country respects these men and women
@bouldercity08 I don't say the reason why they fought is not good, i just think fighting is not a good way to solve the problems. If people learned to solve their differences through talking and negotiating, this world would be a better place to live in.
@petwoman727 Well that isn't going to happen all the time there is religion dear, I am a pacifist but again respect these people that put their lives at risk for us.
@petwoman727 Well petwoman727 lets start by agreeing to disagree, we all have our own opinions and that is a good thing, just think about what I am saying and don't agree with war, it's horrible but agree to respect, Just listen to the lyrics of this song and it more or less says exactly that. It implies that we will never learn from all the wars and that they will just keep on happening, which really makes me sad.
@bouldercity08 I know it's a good thing people have different opinions. I'm not trying to convince people to not respect the soldiers, i try to make them think about what happens because of them. The people you respect have probably killed a lot of innocent victims...
@petwoman727 Maybe, maybe not, but look at the second world war, I had relatives that were killed there by the Germans and we retaliated, so If you want to be a pacifist that's good but what ever your thoughts will not stop wars and you can't think about the innocent people that are killed because it happens on all sides but our troops would NOT and I know this for a fact kill an innocent, we are civilised
@bouldercity08 Can i ask you where you come from? I'm from the Netherlands and i have relatives who were killed too. My own brother wants to join the army right now. But wars are always fought over the backs of innocents... All troops will, on purpose or not, kill innocent people, that's just what happens in a war. Germany called itself civilised too didn't they?
@petwoman727 I'm from Britain and you were our allies in WW2, still are. The wars these days are all about OIL so if you drive a car or heat your house so we are all guilty of wanting this commodity.
I am off to work now petwoman so will finish now. It was a great debate, a friendly one and it is a shame disputes can't all be conducted this way (I am assuming you are a woman/girl) so perhaps we should have women running countries haha!
@fightagainsthomerule Btw,nearly 250,000 Catholic Irishmen fought in the British army in WWI,not that Ian Paisley or your spiteful Orange Daddy would have told you that.
As a veteran and a Catholic I find you very offensive. It doesn't matter what son or daughter is fighting and dying for their country it is all very sad. I was lucky to have lived through the conflicts that my Government sent me to but many didn't. Soldiers don't go to war because they want to. Your elected officials send them to war. Support the troops even if you don't support the war.
this song is for a willie mcbride as 14 men named willie mcbride were killed in WW1 although there were probably many more of them who were never identified
I agree 100%. Though the original comment the great Prinz was referring to was one I made upon my return home and I was expressing the importance of the song, and personal feelings it stirred.
@danielh03 I meant no offence by the way. And it's understandable that songs like this one may touch you in a way they touch no other. I'm a student myself, so I don't know the horrors of war first hand unlike you. But even for me this song brings up some emotions.
@danielh03 Hmm, yeah, you're right. I tend to close my mind when I see americunts invading countries, bombing, killing people and grabbing the region's natural resources. And as if that wasn't enough, they have the nerve -they don't have the slightest shame- to tell the world that they're 'liberating the people of this or that country'. LOL And yes, I am PROUD that I've never been cannon fodder, a mindless little pawn for the scum that own your ass. And I'll never be one. Fuck every army.
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII Fuck all the armies? Regardless what country your from, you still have an army....You're an idiot if you think the U.S. is the only country who does that... BTW when you call us "americunts", you are in fact insulting a lot more people than you think. Technically, all of North, Central and South Americas would counted as Americans. That's why we're the U.S. At least learn your world history dude.
@chipndip022 Of course I mean my own country's army, too. lol How clearer can it get? I said "fuck ALL the armies". Did I specifically say "fuck the u.s. army"? :S And, no, you retard, not every country does that. Also, it's a typical dumfuck's response to say "others do it, too". Well, we're fucking talking about the u.s., aren't we? Give an example of any recent, major military operation that didn't involve the u.s. directly or otherwise. Also, that's why I used "so-called" before americunts.
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII Besides, we're not mindless pawns.. You can say all that shit, but since you are in fact not from here; then you wouldn't actually know what our armies are made of. But besides that since it's a "typical dumbfucks response to say "others do it too" ", I guess you were talking to someone else. Cause that's not exactly what I said. I wonder where you learned the english language, if you don't even understamd basic grammar?
@chipndip022 You are mindless pawns since you believe that, somehow, you're doing good to this world, that you're "freeing people" and stupid shit like that. You are mindless pawns when you think you protect "freedom" in Iraq or Afghanistan, or that you fight terrorism. LOL Someone must be retarded to think this way. I was replying to you. What don't you understand? I said the u.s. army does this or that and you said "others do it too". lol I can gladly start correcting your english if you want.
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII I'm not a mindless pawn because a) i don't particularly care about the world and b) the U.S. is not protecting freedom in Iraq or Afghanistan. Most people in the U.S. don't believe that. We just like to pick fights. Why do you keep laughing? Is it all that funny? Or are you simply attempting humor? Once again, I did not say anything about any of the other countries doing it. I was merely asking if you believed the US did so as well?
@chipndip022 You just proved that you're a mindless pawn. a) You should care about the world, it's the u.s. intervention that's fucking it up. b) That's the most dumbass view on u.s policy that I've heard in a while. lol That's really why you think all that shit happens in this world?? Also, if you "like to pick fighs" as a state, that proves once again that u.s.a.-ans are fucking scum. And, btw, if you like picking fights, expect some reaction. No, not funny, just hilariously stupid.
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII I'm not a mindless pawn because a) i don't particularly care about the world and b) the U.S. is not protecting freedom in Iraq or Afghanistan. Most people in the U.S. don't believe that. We just like to pick fights. Why do you keep laughing? Is it all that funny? Or are you simply attempting humor? Once again, I did not say anything about any of the other countries doing it. I was merely asking if you believed the US was the only one?
As has been previously stated, this was composed by Eric Bogle, a Scot, so It`s probable that he had a Scottish soldier in mind when he did this. The "Flowers of the Forest", is a Scottish lament, played on the bagpipes. It was said to have originated after the defeat of the Scots, at Flodden, by the English. One could go on, but just let`s imagine that it`s for all and any soldier who has paid the ultimate sacrifice. ps, I think it has also been done as a "duet" with a German
Considering that you did this for your 8 year old niece, I think that this vid contains some images (headshots, blown off legs, etc.) which could be pretty disturbing to her at this age.
Nevertheless it's an awesome video. Very good job.
Some people seem to fail to understand that eventhough he sings about young Willie McBride he is actually singing about all young soldiers who ever died in any war and the great waste of lives and the seemingly inevitable fate of humanity to be engaged in war again and again and again. Afterall there's no such continous melody in the history as mankind as the always repeating sound of war drums.
What a terrible waste of young men's lives. So many British, Australian & NZ young soldiers lost. We will always remember them & thank them for our freedom & way of life. God bless the ANZACS & their valiant sacrifice.
@ Everyone noone needs to die all these people that think they r better than you's us me it doesnt need to happen, i'm a proud irishman no irish - english - welsh - scottish - european - asian - american needs to die while the snobs dine at the same table!!!!, thats my say!
I'm french and my great great grandfather died to defend his nation in the great war at the age of 21 the 17/10/1917. God bless all these soldiers who gave their lifes for us.
you did absolutely amazing in honoring the fallen this is an amazing song and the video just makes it breath taking every time i listen to it i think of the friends i lost i just have one question what is the name of the song in the beginning while the credits are playing
you did absolutely amazing in honoring the fallen this is an amazing song and the video just makes it breath taking every time i listen to it i think of the friends i lost i just have one question what is the name of the song in the beginning while the credits are playin
we played this song for one of our guys in Kandahar when they took him. this is the best video of this. every time i see the end i think of him. thank you.
This an amazing song and you did a wonderful job of making the video. I'm Irish American and love the dropkick murphy's and I'm going to be shipping to military school (of my own choice) in a few months then I hope to go on to the marines afterwards and I just think you did an amazing job honoring those heroes who've given their lives protecting those who can't protect themselves.
@bikerrebelg2001 it did the same for me. i'd heard of dkm before and listened to a few of their mainstream songs like shipping up to boston and tessie running accross this song opened me up to all their other stuff which is amazing.
I Visit Verdun just a month ago and i see the countless white crosses in front of ossuaire de Douaumont. Its scarry in some way because you try to imagine what happens there back in 1916 but then you stop it and just think "dont let it happen again"
What is the song that starts off the video? Sounds pretty cool....hopefully someone can tell me
51wins 2 days ago in playlist Green Fields of France/Willie Mcbride
In all due respect this version just doesnt do it. Listen to " The Fureys" version, in MY opion the fureys do it much more justice.
MrJoeybongos 5 days ago
thank for us, god bless you, thank for my life free, à jamais dans mon coeur, merci pour ma liberté
à jamais reconnaissante de votre sacrifice
fan5173 1 week ago
Its an incredible song and amazing that yours niece truly understands it. I love it and it really hits home now after loosing my grandfather unexpectedly. He wasn' in WWI or WWII but was in the Navy.
karn75 1 week ago
What's with Catholic Hitler @ 4:48 ?
pinkymixology 1 week ago
i LOVE this song!
ProddyRyan 1 week ago
Thumbs up for the Boondock Saints music
tbladesmith 2 weeks ago
i always tear up wen i listen to this song its my fav.
warrior99513 2 weeks ago
Lacks perspective and context. I love this song and I hate war but war can be justified,
RandyGPS 2 weeks ago
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RandyGPS 2 weeks ago
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE WEE JIG AT THE START IT WAS EPIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE WB ONE AND ALL
AlphaFirstPrime 2 weeks ago
@AlphaFirstPrime The Blood Of Cu Chulainn by Jeff Danna.
flugstein 6 days ago
your video is amazing mate your neice will be proud :)
ninjerVEKTOR 3 weeks ago
This is my favourite song
simply the best
my great grand father was at the somme with a scottish regiment.
RobbieMacHD 3 weeks ago
Ha I like your description. :)
maddie2k11 3 weeks ago
I come from a long army family....whatever the reason, thank you for honoring those who have given us our freedom.
And Bless your niece.
wamw07 3 weeks ago
You did a wounderful job for your niece!
I am in the last few years of my life and I have lost friends and brothers in two wars. I could only hope that the future generation will learn from the past, but we know that they won't and songs like this will go on untill we learn no mater how right the reason our young pay the ultimate price. Those of us left behind even though we served and survive we ask why!
TheEodguy1970 3 weeks ago
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"Did you really believe them when they told you when they told you the cause? Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well the suffering the sorrow, the glory the shame. The killin and dying it was all done in vein. Oh Willie McBride it all happened again, and again and again and again and again."
alterbridgefan99 3 weeks ago
"Did you really believe them when they told you when they told you the cause? Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well the suffering the sorrow, the glory the shame. The killin and dying it was all done in vein. Oh Willie McBride it all happened again, and again and again and again and again."
alterbridgefan99 3 weeks ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy We actually fought for a year in a war that we had no business taking part in.
glax1295 3 weeks ago
@CanadiaMiliatry15 There's a canadian military now? Or is it miliatry?
glax1295 3 weeks ago
Again and again and again Wow some sad reason its true it shouldn't why should we fight over silly things like land! Why kill innocent men and wiman children even!
It seems daft to me. Thumbs up if you agree
Jj8655 1 month ago
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rollingklouds 1 month ago
@Moolalley Tough these men didn't prevent a second war they did die for our freedom it's a shame the Great War is less known today then WWII
RavenDestroyer 1 month ago
I can see why your niece like the song, it tell you about WW1.
ThunderGleek 1 month ago
willie mc bride the the brit basterd!
MegaMURRAY123 1 month ago
i like this my grandfather was in france 1917
momo77ist 1 month ago
Great video, thank you for the beauty you have shown, and the honor of those who died defending what we believe in
pocketkings250 1 month ago
There are 9 future Warmongerers in our presence
MetalicConnor 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
3:04. Pure hell on earth. After reading 'All Quiet on the Western Front' Its hard to compare any war to 'The Great War' in terms of brutality.
richis2fast4u 2 months ago
I truly hope your niece can find a less depressing song to be her favorite. However I am glad that she understands what the song represents.
karn75 2 months ago
Awesome check out video which is basically the same thing lol
avgnman72 2 months ago
Awesome video. It's true, the wars haven't stopped and probably never will.
epsdelta 2 months ago
God love your little niece; as you wrote, she must truly be an "old soul." I wish more people knew this song, not just the tune, but "knew" the words and gave them a moment of reflection. First heard this in the early 90s, when covered by the Scots band, "North Sea Gas," and it's always been impossible for me not get choked up each and every time.
templarsoul 2 months ago
I just wished people had more respect for these BRAVE innocent people who actually risked there lives to make what the world is today Respect for these people who were lost in this terrible Event.
Jj8655 2 months ago
I love it.
Ulfgahr 2 months ago
... Died hand in hand with their "ennemies".
BelieveInTheWorld 2 months ago
After having listened to this, I sat up, while feeling chills of adoration down my spine... And was ashamed of being so ungrateful, sometimes. And thought about those men who were certainly far from Governments' shifty plots, those men who wanted but to defend their children, their wife, their country... Those men instrumentalised by bureaucrats (a bit caricatured but still true), who thought that the 'cause' was worthwhile... And who, despite their factitious hatred...
BelieveInTheWorld 2 months ago
my freinds dad just died on remberance day R.I.P to the fallen
spartan1545 2 months ago
15 million people couldn't click the respawn button.
Ro88Jo 2 months ago
wearing a poppy
americanstylefreak 2 months ago
remembrance day too all
ragequitify 2 months ago
happy veterans day to all the service men and woman who have fought and died for our country. god bless you.
superchicken116 2 months ago 4
a reminder that we should never forget the sacrifices of those who went before us
bno2345 2 months ago 3
This made me cry as well, right about here. The imagery, coupled with:
"Oh Willie McBride, it all happened again
And again and again and again and again"
This is what I was hoping to find on Veterans' Day.
RozitaVideo 2 months ago 3
@RozitaVideo i know :( damn you Hitler "spit"
JMemski 2 months ago
When History comes to an end, how shall we heal all we have done to each other?
1008babaji 2 months ago
my great grand father served in canadian corp in ww1 and I hope soon in 4 more years I will follow in his steps
ragequitify 2 months ago
@ragequitify Did he come home alive and healthy?
RPenta 2 months ago
@RPenta yep
ragequitify 2 months ago
Thanks for the well done video. Every time I watch it I get a tear in my eye. Thank you to all who serve and serve still!
chicobandi 2 months ago
93 years ago today the Frist World War ended 11/11/1918 - 11/11/2011
RIP to all that lost their lives on both sides.
Vassilli42 2 months ago
boondock saints
SuperFenderfan 2 months ago
@hhxxxhhh
The blood of culchanan
runlikepre23 2 months ago
@hecknstai...i hope not dude...i had a kid a few weeks ago and i don't want her fighting post-nuclear zombies....
OldSkoolThrasher666 2 months ago
awesome song, great video....always makes me tear up cuz in the almost 100 years since the Great War began all we've learned is how to make better killing technology.....
OldSkoolThrasher666 2 months ago 33
@OldSkoolThrasher666 it´s sad, but true. Mankinde will never change i think untill we will destroy the earth with our nuclear weapons.
Hecknslai 2 months ago
@Hecknslai We're getting to world peace, believe it or not but even with the wars raging now, we are getting better. The first step is to try not to kill civilians, the next step is to not need an army, the last step is for countries to not want armies.
LordNethesis 2 months ago
@OldSkoolThrasher666 Yep as you said, fully teared up. The futility, that every generation of politicians feel they have to send another generation of our sons and daughters into the shite of a slaughter that marks their place in history. Will there ever come a time when the power mongers can play their imbecilic games without killing someones children. Thanks for posting these beautiful thoughts and scenes.
apple4master 2 months ago
@OldSkoolThrasher666 and then to think they used technique's dating back to 1700-1800 back in the Great War combined with more "modern" technique's
RavenDestroyer 1 month ago
@OldSkoolThrasher666 : I just hope Willie saves a place for a Desert Shield/ Vietnam soldier. Even if it's not in Heaven, like him.---COL Dick; Gig Harbor, WA
JRCDO668352 4 weeks ago
According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, there were eight soldiers named "William McBride", and a further six listed as "W. McBride", who died in France or Belgium during the first World War. All of wich survived in an Irish regiment.
ravendarkenholme 2 months ago
Try listening to this another great song giving two sides to what is always a very sad state of affairs
willy mcbrides reply
saranam80 2 months ago
This song brings tears to my eyes every time.
odonnell1218 2 months ago
WW2 propaganda posters
wescott0034 3 months ago
very touching pictures to go along with that amazing song. Good job, mate.
friendly greetings from Germany
americanstylefreak 3 months ago
Pointlessness of war.
americanstylefreak 3 months ago 2
the song at the beginning is the intro from boondock saints
mazzyjr 3 months ago
The 100 years previous the brave wullies family could have been kicked off their own lands in the Highlands to make way for sheep. Wullies relatives would have left Scotland for Australia,Canada,new Zealand. Kicked out Britain! They owed the country nothing.
NickerSkids 3 months ago
nice
MegaEvilNess2323 3 months ago
This is bizarre. Probably the greatest anti war song ever written and yet read these comments. Absolute imbeciles arguing as to who's country has the hardest soldiers. I'd quite like for the eight year old niece who asked for this video to talk to some of these bafoons and tell them to grow up. I'm British, and I really couldn't give a damn when America joined the war. Fact is...they died just like we did. A life is a life and WAR IS STUPID! Grow up morons!
MrChrisastin 3 months ago 13
@MrChrisastin But if they can't compare dic- I mean, armies, how will they know who's the bigger man? How will they know who's the Alpha Male, the Man among Men, the Head Honcho of Mount Testosterone?
Has there ever been a Man who became famous and loved for his peaceful ways? For his contributions to Science and Art not related to Death or War?
Just look at God! When people piss him off, is it "Love" and "Forgiveness"? No! It's brimstone and hell-
What do you mean "It IS Love and Forgiveness"?!
LordSia13 2 months ago
@LordSia13 hehe. Funny :-)
MrChrisastin 2 months ago
@LordSia13 I think the man you're looking for is Ghandi. He managed to free India from the British Imperial yoke by entirely peaceful means and is know and revered by many.
Emilyismysunshine 2 months ago
Your niece as very nice taste. Tell thanks from Me. *tears in my eyes*
musicMan1445 3 months ago
ok so about all that, yeah we came in the end of WWI, but you forget it was NOT our war, we didnt want to be involved but eventually we came to aid Britian. We sent our men to die for you. SO show some fucking respect you fucking brit.
donnor569 3 months ago
This song goes for all soldiers of any war, up until "the war on terror"
killjood666 3 months ago
@killjood666 dont let money blind you to fellow humans beings
hrjert1 3 months ago
Nicely done! Thank you very much!
codiersklave 3 months ago
Lots of Yank pictures, but sorry to say man that the USA wasnt in the war for very long. You stayed at home well the British Empire slogged it out.
CanadiaMiliatry15 3 months ago
@CanadiaMiliatry15 Lol, The good ol brits did it again and the canadians they were there too.. USA was there for like 1year
Grallos1232 3 months ago
A quite staggering version of a truly great song. Loyalists are 'loyal' to a country that thinks they are scum and wishes they were all dead - how stupid is that?
paullavan2011 3 months ago
"One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
—George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1938
cjzero19283746 3 months ago 2
i see the message of this song hasn't been listened too. your all fighting amongst yourselves about who did what in whatever war, but missing the point.
i suggest you LISTEN to the message, and have a wee think about what it REALLY means....
runrigtam 3 months ago 2
@runrigtam
It just goes to show that people will never learn.
C4rn0 3 months ago
you irish / uk / scotish guys did great music, best anti-war-song ever!
greetings from germany
phel55 3 months ago 2
@phel55 init im irish and i love all our songs :D wooo IRELAND
oliman43 3 months ago
whats the song at the beginning ?
hhhxxxhhh 3 months ago 18
@hhhxxxhhh
want to know it, too. :)
phel55 3 months ago
@hhhxxxhhh
The song at the beginning:
watch?v=ISgPqO50aaw
phel55 3 months ago
@hhhxxxhhh It's from the movie "Boondock Saints."
ThePizzadude93 3 months ago
@hhhxxxhhh
the song is in my opinion the theme of "the boonbrock saints" ("blutiger pfad gottes" in german)
shinxor 2 months ago
@hhhxxxhhh the blood of cuchulainn (pronounced kuh-cull-in)
HealeyIRA5 2 months ago
@hhhxxxhhh
Its the theme from Boondock Saints
Blood of Cu'Calain(sp?)
MacMerritt 2 months ago
@hhhxxxhhh its called "the blood of cu chulainn" :)
Thebunkable 2 months ago 2
@hhhxxxhhh blood of cuchulainn dont know the band but from the ost of boondock saints
thebob899 2 months ago
@hhhxxxhhh :Its called The Blood of Cuchulainn, also its a theme song in a movie called The Boondock Saints, cheers !
FanZinGD 2 months ago
@hhhxxxhhh The Blood Of Cu Chulainn Its off the soundtrack for the movie 'The Boondock Saints'
TheUSMCRifleman1 1 month ago
sad song but whats it got to do with America,you fought for 2 weeks in world war 1 and less than any one else in ww2 ,countrys like Australia and New zealand lost more per head of population in both wars than either france or russia in both wars.
MrFattyfatfatboy 4 months ago
@MrFattyfatfatboy is it wrong i picture an army of kangaroos and sheep? congrats on the army though, i didnt even realize yall had one
TheShottaz 3 months ago
@TheShottaz we were there from the word go... and our SAS did more in the afghan war than the yanks... sorry to say but we aren't pussies compared to those that hide behind their mother's skirts. no one ever knew we were there cus even the rest of the world are afraid of the SAS. point is, wake up... america is as human as the rest of the world.. may all the fallen be remembered regardless, lest we forget.....
sparhawk29 3 months ago
@sparhawk29 lol that's a funny comment, i dont recall saying anyone was a pussy or hid behind there mother's skirt...and when you say 'america is as human as everybody else' well it is contridictory to your statement that the entire world feared these superhuman sas...i dont need to wake up, i know what happened, we kicked ass on both sides of the world
TheShottaz 3 months ago
@sparhawk29 The I.R.A didn't fear your sas.
ploughbhoy1 3 months ago
Everyone should get this video in school and learn about the wars, give these people that fought in these wars some respect
bouldercity08 4 months ago
@bouldercity08 i don't really respect them... If they wouldn't have gone fighting there wouldn't have been a war!!! People always say they are proud of the people fighting for their country, but it is because of these same people that wars keep existing
petwoman727 4 months ago
@petwoman727 If it wasn't for these brave men and women fighting for our freedom you wouldn't be here mouthing off about respect. You have to earn respect and I would say 90% of our country respects these men and women
bouldercity08 4 months ago
@bouldercity08 I don't say the reason why they fought is not good, i just think fighting is not a good way to solve the problems. If people learned to solve their differences through talking and negotiating, this world would be a better place to live in.
petwoman727 4 months ago
@petwoman727 Well that isn't going to happen all the time there is religion dear, I am a pacifist but again respect these people that put their lives at risk for us.
bouldercity08 4 months ago
@bouldercity08 I just hope someday people will think different, so they can just accept each other instead of killing everyone who disagrees.
petwoman727 4 months ago
@petwoman727 Well petwoman727 lets start by agreeing to disagree, we all have our own opinions and that is a good thing, just think about what I am saying and don't agree with war, it's horrible but agree to respect, Just listen to the lyrics of this song and it more or less says exactly that. It implies that we will never learn from all the wars and that they will just keep on happening, which really makes me sad.
bouldercity08 4 months ago
@bouldercity08 I know it's a good thing people have different opinions. I'm not trying to convince people to not respect the soldiers, i try to make them think about what happens because of them. The people you respect have probably killed a lot of innocent victims...
petwoman727 4 months ago
@petwoman727 Maybe, maybe not, but look at the second world war, I had relatives that were killed there by the Germans and we retaliated, so If you want to be a pacifist that's good but what ever your thoughts will not stop wars and you can't think about the innocent people that are killed because it happens on all sides but our troops would NOT and I know this for a fact kill an innocent, we are civilised
bouldercity08 4 months ago
@bouldercity08 Can i ask you where you come from? I'm from the Netherlands and i have relatives who were killed too. My own brother wants to join the army right now. But wars are always fought over the backs of innocents... All troops will, on purpose or not, kill innocent people, that's just what happens in a war. Germany called itself civilised too didn't they?
petwoman727 4 months ago
@petwoman727 I'm from Britain and you were our allies in WW2, still are. The wars these days are all about OIL so if you drive a car or heat your house so we are all guilty of wanting this commodity.
I am off to work now petwoman so will finish now. It was a great debate, a friendly one and it is a shame disputes can't all be conducted this way (I am assuming you are a woman/girl) so perhaps we should have women running countries haha!
bouldercity08 4 months ago
@bouldercity08 Okay, i'm glad we've talked like this :) Byebye
petwoman727 4 months ago
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fuck all catholics ./ the red poppies dance
fightagainsthomerule 4 months ago
@fightagainsthomerule You are blocked for your hateful comments.
BlueOrchidMoon77 4 months ago 34
@fightagainsthomerule Another Protestant so happy with Christ's teaching that he feels the need to hate anyone who disagrees with him.Get a clue.
DustyAndPistolPete 4 months ago
@fightagainsthomerule Btw,nearly 250,000 Catholic Irishmen fought in the British army in WWI,not that Ian Paisley or your spiteful Orange Daddy would have told you that.
DustyAndPistolPete 4 months ago
As a veteran and a Catholic I find you very offensive. It doesn't matter what son or daughter is fighting and dying for their country it is all very sad. I was lucky to have lived through the conflicts that my Government sent me to but many didn't. Soldiers don't go to war because they want to. Your elected officials send them to war. Support the troops even if you don't support the war.
dogear17 4 months ago 2
amazing.. makes me cry everytime
fightagainsthomerule 4 months ago
This song is a brilliant choice
P.s sorry for the spelling
annlouiseish 4 months ago
in which year is this song made?
dapartysquad 4 months ago
gives me the creeps
derekobrighty 4 months ago
this song is for a willie mcbride as 14 men named willie mcbride were killed in WW1 although there were probably many more of them who were never identified
nerdygirl1981 4 months ago
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII
Its most obvious you have a closed mind and have never been a soldier. I hope you find bliss in your ignorance
danielh03 4 months ago
@danielh03 But there's one hell of a difference between being a soldier now, and being a soldier back then. :/
mpairwing 4 months ago
@mpairwing
I agree 100%. Though the original comment the great Prinz was referring to was one I made upon my return home and I was expressing the importance of the song, and personal feelings it stirred.
danielh03 4 months ago
@danielh03 I meant no offence by the way. And it's understandable that songs like this one may touch you in a way they touch no other. I'm a student myself, so I don't know the horrors of war first hand unlike you. But even for me this song brings up some emotions.
mpairwing 4 months ago
@danielh03 Hmm, yeah, you're right. I tend to close my mind when I see americunts invading countries, bombing, killing people and grabbing the region's natural resources. And as if that wasn't enough, they have the nerve -they don't have the slightest shame- to tell the world that they're 'liberating the people of this or that country'. LOL And yes, I am PROUD that I've never been cannon fodder, a mindless little pawn for the scum that own your ass. And I'll never be one. Fuck every army.
PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII 4 months ago
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII Fuck all the armies? Regardless what country your from, you still have an army....You're an idiot if you think the U.S. is the only country who does that... BTW when you call us "americunts", you are in fact insulting a lot more people than you think. Technically, all of North, Central and South Americas would counted as Americans. That's why we're the U.S. At least learn your world history dude.
chipndip022 4 months ago
@chipndip022 Of course I mean my own country's army, too. lol How clearer can it get? I said "fuck ALL the armies". Did I specifically say "fuck the u.s. army"? :S And, no, you retard, not every country does that. Also, it's a typical dumfuck's response to say "others do it, too". Well, we're fucking talking about the u.s., aren't we? Give an example of any recent, major military operation that didn't involve the u.s. directly or otherwise. Also, that's why I used "so-called" before americunts.
PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII 4 months ago
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII Besides, we're not mindless pawns.. You can say all that shit, but since you are in fact not from here; then you wouldn't actually know what our armies are made of. But besides that since it's a "typical dumbfucks response to say "others do it too" ", I guess you were talking to someone else. Cause that's not exactly what I said. I wonder where you learned the english language, if you don't even understamd basic grammar?
chipndip022 4 months ago
@chipndip022 You are mindless pawns since you believe that, somehow, you're doing good to this world, that you're "freeing people" and stupid shit like that. You are mindless pawns when you think you protect "freedom" in Iraq or Afghanistan, or that you fight terrorism. LOL Someone must be retarded to think this way. I was replying to you. What don't you understand? I said the u.s. army does this or that and you said "others do it too". lol I can gladly start correcting your english if you want.
PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII 4 months ago
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII I'm not a mindless pawn because a) i don't particularly care about the world and b) the U.S. is not protecting freedom in Iraq or Afghanistan. Most people in the U.S. don't believe that. We just like to pick fights. Why do you keep laughing? Is it all that funny? Or are you simply attempting humor? Once again, I did not say anything about any of the other countries doing it. I was merely asking if you believed the US did so as well?
chipndip022 4 months ago
@chipndip022 You just proved that you're a mindless pawn. a) You should care about the world, it's the u.s. intervention that's fucking it up. b) That's the most dumbass view on u.s policy that I've heard in a while. lol That's really why you think all that shit happens in this world?? Also, if you "like to pick fighs" as a state, that proves once again that u.s.a.-ans are fucking scum. And, btw, if you like picking fights, expect some reaction. No, not funny, just hilariously stupid.
PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII 4 months ago
@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII So it is funny?
chipndip022 4 months ago
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@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII So it is funny?
chipndip022 4 months ago
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@PrinzEugenMCMLXXXIII I'm not a mindless pawn because a) i don't particularly care about the world and b) the U.S. is not protecting freedom in Iraq or Afghanistan. Most people in the U.S. don't believe that. We just like to pick fights. Why do you keep laughing? Is it all that funny? Or are you simply attempting humor? Once again, I did not say anything about any of the other countries doing it. I was merely asking if you believed the US was the only one?
chipndip022 4 months ago
I love your greetings to your niece, that´s how i´m thinking about my nieces and nephews. My best wishes to Carlli.
(Sry for bad English)
MrSchwiesel 4 months ago
One of my favorite songs
avgnman72 4 months ago
So many great men died in this war
avgnman72 4 months ago
As has been previously stated, this was composed by Eric Bogle, a Scot, so It`s probable that he had a Scottish soldier in mind when he did this. The "Flowers of the Forest", is a Scottish lament, played on the bagpipes. It was said to have originated after the defeat of the Scots, at Flodden, by the English. One could go on, but just let`s imagine that it`s for all and any soldier who has paid the ultimate sacrifice. ps, I think it has also been done as a "duet" with a German
scotsdg70 5 months ago 14
Well done!
re124droz 5 months ago
Well done on making a great video BlueOrchidMoon77!!
Jordan1873 5 months ago
Considering that you did this for your 8 year old niece, I think that this vid contains some images (headshots, blown off legs, etc.) which could be pretty disturbing to her at this age.
Nevertheless it's an awesome video. Very good job.
123dexter321 5 months ago
willie mcbride was actually 21 years old
ROSSwithFINTAN 5 months ago
@ROSSwithFINTAN But 19 when he joined ;D
SquidMonk3y 5 months ago
And the countless white crosses in mute witness stand.
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
thevandeano 5 months ago
what is the intro song called
stonedzombie22 5 months ago
Such passion
oliman43 5 months ago
the absolutely best version of this song!!! so f*ckin beautiful, love DKM <3
apfelstrudelmaster 5 months ago
Bewegend.
Bounzful 6 months ago
a dir poco STUPENDA let's go MURPHYS
giovanni14485 6 months ago
Some people seem to fail to understand that eventhough he sings about young Willie McBride he is actually singing about all young soldiers who ever died in any war and the great waste of lives and the seemingly inevitable fate of humanity to be engaged in war again and again and again. Afterall there's no such continous melody in the history as mankind as the always repeating sound of war drums.
MajorCoolD 6 months ago 2
my grampa died in the vietnam war he was for to be in it RIP
huntermurphy1401 6 months ago
What a terrible waste of young men's lives. So many British, Australian & NZ young soldiers lost. We will always remember them & thank them for our freedom & way of life. God bless the ANZACS & their valiant sacrifice.
JamIndia5 6 months ago
@ Everyone noone needs to die all these people that think they r better than you's us me it doesnt need to happen, i'm a proud irishman no irish - english - welsh - scottish - european - asian - american needs to die while the snobs dine at the same table!!!!, thats my say!
celticasgard 6 months ago
I'm french and my great great grandfather died to defend his nation in the great war at the age of 21 the 17/10/1917. God bless all these soldiers who gave their lifes for us.
R.I.P
angusg61 6 months ago 2
The song is amazing, one of my favourites and the video you've put with it fits perfectly, well done.
sizzabella 6 months ago
War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free.” Heraclitus of Ephesus
LivingCrusader 6 months ago
What is the reel played on the ullian's at the beginning called? Bravo btw
ShunkawakanOkawingha 7 months ago
@ShunkawakanOkawingha its the opening music to a film called "Boondock Saints"
ezh12 7 months ago
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you did absolutely amazing in honoring the fallen this is an amazing song and the video just makes it breath taking every time i listen to it i think of the friends i lost i just have one question what is the name of the song in the beginning while the credits are playing
MrMccallister90 7 months ago
you did absolutely amazing in honoring the fallen this is an amazing song and the video just makes it breath taking every time i listen to it i think of the friends i lost i just have one question what is the name of the song in the beginning while the credits are playin
MrMccallister90 7 months ago
@MrMccallister90 The blood of Chuchullan
ScrewedSongsStudio 7 months ago
Sw3den loves Dropkick murphys!! (well... i do)
TheTobbe96 7 months ago 3
@TheTobbe96 Jag med = Me too :D
xnipet26 7 months ago
@xnipet26 Aw3s0me :P vart kommer du ifrån?? =3
TheTobbe96 7 months ago
we played this song for one of our guys in Kandahar when they took him. this is the best video of this. every time i see the end i think of him. thank you.
brodi387 8 months ago
This an amazing song and you did a wonderful job of making the video. I'm Irish American and love the dropkick murphy's and I'm going to be shipping to military school (of my own choice) in a few months then I hope to go on to the marines afterwards and I just think you did an amazing job honoring those heroes who've given their lives protecting those who can't protect themselves.
PhoenixSantino 8 months ago
such an amazing song. Very powerful.
chisox100 8 months ago
Love these types of songs reply to me for other songs that need to be listened to! cheers!
YorkGod1 8 months ago
this is the very song that turned me on to DKM
bikerrebelg2001 8 months ago
@bikerrebelg2001 it did the same for me. i'd heard of dkm before and listened to a few of their mainstream songs like shipping up to boston and tessie running accross this song opened me up to all their other stuff which is amazing.
chisox100 8 months ago
I Visit Verdun just a month ago and i see the countless white crosses in front of ossuaire de Douaumont. Its scarry in some way because you try to imagine what happens there back in 1916 but then you stop it and just think "dont let it happen again"
benjirocker1982 8 months ago
Most of the photographs he has are of Canadian Soldiers
DIVIDINGkill 8 months ago