Green Fields of France (William McBride)

[neutronstar64]

cracking voice!well done,love this song!i've not long heard it myself but make sure i do it on every gig now i've learnt it too!goes down well!

Dan.

[Pablo668]

Thanks muchly!

[LiteGauge]

Great version, thanks. It's not clichéed, the way you sing it. I'd say it's more 'over done', so it's refreshing to hear someone who gives this great song some heart. :o)

[Pablo668]

Thanks very much!

[boynebattler]

One of my favourite songs of all time - a fantastic version you done there

[Pablo668]

Thanks!

[loveofthecelt]

You have a lovely voice .... I prefer your ballads. That's probably because I'm a ballad singer also...anyway, keep singing! I love your voice. You can check out my band on my channel... loveofthecelt

[Pablo668]

Thanks very much. Will do.

[madfortrad5958]

well done great video hope you like my version i sent you

[Pablo668]

Thnaks, I'll check it out.

[userbrentcarter]

Hey Pablo..I was just thinking you would do well at a Gary Moore song

[Pablo668]

Oh thanks. Wishing Well would be my choice.

[JohnMcCash]

Amazing, this is another song I sing on here, we seem to have similar tastes. Wonderful song and well sung friend. 5 stars

[Pablo668]

Hey John, thanks again.

[sandroaraujo3]

freedom fighters,, never forgotten...

[Pablo668]

Thanks.

[dsmith1731]

this is my favorite tribute to the horror of war. im from the usa and the son of a veteran of 3 wars and yes i sometimes am ashamed of our countries ways. we all are not in agreement with our leaders views.

[Pablo668]

Like I have said before, I'm not anti-US, and I spoke a little foolishly.

I did this song because it's a passionate anti-war song and as a rememberance day tribute.

[zardozfrance]

Pardon my english. I hope you could one of these days come in France with your guitar, (if)choose the north, Somme or Pas-de-calais, choose a field in summer, walk along the way on the left or on the right, it doesn't matter, and be sure to find soon a little cimetery hidden among the corns, and yes if you read the dates on the grave stone: born in 1897 killed in 1916, no offense if you sing this song and play your guitar in the cimetery, they are for ever 19.

[Pablo668]

Thankyou for watching. Yeah, I'd love to go to France and see the Somme.

[usuckamydick]

the states always go in at the end and say we won!!!!!! lol and all the fights the pick they seem to always pull out of (loose) lol ..... Canadian perspective

[Pablo668]

Thanks for watching! I'm not touching that!

[FARANSI95]

I discovered this song with your post. Greatly done. If you intend to visit the Somme you're invited, truly. By the way my neighbourg is australian and his old parents are living in a new house at the end of my garden. I'm surrounded with australian...

Did they play the drum slowly, just makes me sigh. My mother is german, I know for sur that WWI was a pure slaughter...

[Pablo668]

Thank you very much. I'll let you know if I get a chance to go there.

[LorCaWilGra]

*sigh* that was lovely, Paulie

[Pablo668]

Thanks Cat!

[fuffermucker]

Beautiful vocals as always....great work. It's a pleasure listening to your soul...thanx

[Pablo668]

Thanks to you!

[MagicMountainVideos]

Thanks for the post:) The truth is we are impressed with your work and your familys. Hope this clears this all up. Look forward to your vids. Never meant any disrespect. Peace:) Hanna

[Pablo668]

No worries, peace! Thanks for watching.

[Pablo668]

Hey guys,

Please stop hassling out MAGICMOUNTAINVIDEOS. They are entitled to their opinions. They get the point and are now not very impressed with me......maybe even less than they were to begin with. Well, that's probably not true, either way leave em alone please.

See, this is exactly how things like WW1 happen!

[1211210]

excellent! i always liked this song! another excellent video paul!

[Pablo668]

Thanks very much!

[alanfromdarwen]

just love your version, really good..

[Pablo668]

Thankyou. :)

[derekeverett]

I was unfamiliar with this song until a couple of years ago - & I've loved it ever since. Great job here. 5*****

[Pablo668]

Thanks a heap.

[pixiepqueen]

are you singing with a bit of a sore throat? I can hear a tiny rasp towards the end of the song that you don't normally have. It's a cold or you have been partying!

let it heal brother! don't wreck those pipes man! (:))

Helen

[Pablo668]

Hey Herlen, yeah, getting over a cold. Though I'm always a little.....raspy over here. Always have a low level cough thing going on.

[karryn13]

Very wonderful. Nice way to remember

[Pablo668]

Thanks very much Karen.

[Pablo668]

arrrrgh, I mean Karryn. sorry.

[karryn13]

No worries! :)

[MTGirlCait]

omg. i start bawling my eyes out every time i hear this song.

but you did a really good job on it.

[bardsrback]

Great job Paulie! I'm most familiar w/ the Furey's verion and you definitely did that justice.

[Pablo668]

Thanks very much!

[ReinaDelCid]

Wow, sweet and melancholy. I haven't heard the original, but I'm certain I'd prefer your version. :-)

Great job, Paulie!

[Pablo668]

Hey Reina, thanks a heap.

Ahh I think if you heard the original your opinion would differ.

But thanks for the big call just the same.

[filemen2]

dude i can't even listen to this.

it's too sad. how can there still be wars?

it's madness, isn't it?

[Pablo668]

Too true. Great anti-war song. I consider myself extremely lucky not to have had to fight in a war.

[MagicMountainVideos]

Received response. Yes you have been featured in our webcast. And have always enjoyed your vids. Hannah has a bur. Our site on tripod will be down for systemwide Maintenance till after 5 pm EST. Sorry about any misunderstanding. Check out the webcast over 26 million have viewed it on Tripod and Hughes satelite.Have a Good day. Mary Rose

[Pablo668]

Yeah will do. Thanks for that. Like I said, happy to chat with Hannah via-pm to explain myself. Suffice it to say, I'm not anti-US.

[Blinkazoid]

Very nicely done!

[Pablo668]

Thanks!

[runner1956]

thanks dude. good tune.

[Pablo668]

Thankyou!

[runner1956]

welcome mate!

[misterblue66]

Great song, very nicely performed, and the mustache is kind of...umm...well, the song was nice at least :D

[Pablo668]

HEY! That moustache is hot sex incarnate!

Thanks for the several kind words in there....somewhere. ;)

[Deejeroo]

I would so do you.

If I wasn't married.

And in Japan.

And younger.

And attractive.

And interesting.

Good God. Why don't I just open a vein and save us all the trouble?

[Pablo668]

Jesus Deej, don't!

Don't even think that way.

It must be my moustache addling your brain.

[Deejeroo]

*whew*, you're right. I think it was the 'stache.

I felt a bit lightheaded there.

[Deejeroo]

That was lovely, thank you.

[Pablo668]

Thanks very much.

[Svetlailieva]

Hey! I loved the song and you've performed it just beautifully. 5*s!

[Pablo668]

Thankyou Svet!

[kaburto1966]

It is a very moving song and you performed it well. Thanks. I had a hectic day and this video caused me to stop and reflect. You also responded with "The Band Played..." which is, if I recall correctly, the first video of yours that I saw and one of my most favorites. I hope all of that made sense. Namaste

[Pablo668]

Thanks very much Karen. Yeah I tacked 'The band played' on there because it has much the same themes and I thought it appropriate to the day.

[cz2509]

In answer to your qustion: The US has Memorial day, the last Monday of May - for the solders who have died in war and Veterans day (Nov 11th) to comemerate the end of WW1 and to honor all veterans.

[Pablo668]

Cool, thanks for that. Well, this is for them too!

[kalaway]

gorgeous song, I'm gonna download it

[Pablo668]

Thanks.

[MagicMountainVideos]

Hey ya think the USA was maybe? involved in WWI at the end. Lost us, do you live under a rock?. You live because of the sacrifice of Americans in both worlds wars. You are deleted from our site!!!! Hannah

[Pablo668]

OK then. Touchy. Try not to find offence where none is intended.

Pm me if you'd like me to explain myself.

I'm on your site?

[Deejeroo]

Give it a rest Mountain. I'm American and even I'm sick of hearing the arrogance. I know what we did and didn't do. I'm proud of the good things and not so proud of the bad. History is history no matter how hard we try to change it and the super thing about that? It's right there for all of us to read. Depending on our own experiences and where we are in the world,, we process information through our own filters. We see things different sometimes. We're human that way.

[Deejeroo]

Sorry about that Paul. Didn't mean to break up the party.

[Pablo668]

It's all good.

[Pablo668]

I certainly wasn't trying to denigrate the US or the part they played in WW1.

I should have been a diplomat.

[Deejeroo]

You didn't denigrate anything. We all have to be able to look at things through our neighbor's eyes. Just because we think something's great here in the good ol U.S.A. doesn't mean it is/was good for other countries. Compassion, understanding, empathy--a damn sense of humor--we have to find this stuff inside ourselves when we start talking to others who might not share our enthusiasm. As Forrest Gump would say, "Sorry I had a fight in the middle of your Black Panther party." WTF?

[Pablo668]

He he thanks awfully.

[Zebonka]

I'm sure it's your loss and not Paul's.

[pixiepqueen]

I find what you said about "you live because" really offensive and egotistic. There was plenty of sacrifice going on, not all American. And it was all a waste. War is a waste.

[Deejeroo]

Can I get an Amen?

[pixiepqueen]

amen

[DrPlum]

Very moving and so nicely sung. On behalf of all that were lost in these times I thank you.

[Pablo668]

Thanks very much.

[JennHood93]

Aww, that was lovely.

[RoninDave]

Nov 11th is Veterans Day in the US where we honor all American veterans of all our wars.

Very nice song! Very invoking! Check out my tribute video to WWI pilots. Thanks!

[Franck867]

Beautiful ! And with more emotion in our day of commemoration in France...

Franck

Soulaire et Bourg

France

[Pablo668]

Thanks very much. I want to go and see Flanders and the Somme one day.

[Franck867]

Ok boy, I am living no so far from there and I had some family died in, so, if you need (good) compagny for that, just let me know.

For that day, I played "the blue cockade"

Franck

[Pablo668]

Wow. If I ever head to Europe I'll let you know.

[LapperProductions]

Like always , you did an amazing job. Great vocals. Keep it up.

Love Britt

[Pablo668]

Oh thanks Brit.