See War Horse (preferably the play) or read the book for an incredibly moving indictment of the futility and horror of this particular war. This song is the perfect complement to it.
In this story the soldier fell in a game of empires that was the first world war. No bollocks about freedom. The poor bastard had the freedom to march into machine gun fire or be tied to a post and shot by his own masters. Thats the difference.
I'm german, and I hold the position that Germany wasn't *solely* responsible for WWI. Whenever I bring this up in discussion with english speakers, they often assume I think the germans were somehow "the good guys".
That's wrong, of course. The only good guys in WWI were the soldiers.
@InnerPartisan No way were Germany soley responsible, almost all the countries Germany fought against had Empire's which was Germany's wish. I'm not saying they were in the right but other countries found it easier to blame them for sending their soldiers to slaughter.
@InnerPartisan i'm buy no means a nazi or patriot (my dad's english my mom german) and i kinda agree because only through the vversailles treaty the german population was driven to go for extremists' like that c*nt hitler. And if you go further you might blame austria for starting WW1 wich caused the treaty to be installed but maybe that's going a bit far
My great-grandpa fight in WW1 in a german ordnance unit. First at the west-front, than at the east-front and told my grandpa in the 20th and 30th nothing about it.
He said untill his death in 1977 he was wounded in 1916 and was worked then in a shell-factory in his hometown.
But a cupple of months ago, I found old field-postcards of him he send to his wife and his eldest son home, which were stamped on X-mas 1917 in Hungry.
This song represents the sentiments of all soldiers from all nations. It's much like Lili Marlene or Lorena, both are songs that were loved and adopted by nearly all sides in their respective conflicts. Even if you think the other side, whichever it was, was wrong, you should still respect them for fighting for what they believed in. Otherwise, you may as well damned your own troops too, and that just makes you a fool, you wouldn't have a country, or a home of your own, without them.
<3 this song ..... and @ fireman 1468 , does it really matter who wrote it or who its about wen it relates to ppl world wide ... yes i think the irish have adopted it but so wat ??? the whole world adopted old lang syne and thats a welsh song ...
Soldat, gingst du gläubig und gern in den Tod? Oder hast du verzweifelt, verbittert, verroht, Deinen wirklichen Feind nicht erkannt bis zum Schluß? Ich hoffe, es traf dich ein sauberer Schuß. Oder hat ein Geschoß dir die Glieder zerfetzt, Hast du nach deiner Mutter geschrien bis zuletzt, Bist auf deinen Beinstümpfen weitergerannt, Und Dein Grab, birgt es mehr als ein Bein, eine Hand
Just laughing at all the "Irish" beating on about this version of the song. It was actually written by a Scotsman who has spent most of his life living in Adelaide Australia. Eric Bogle wrote a lot of songs for the Irish band The Fureys during his career and several anti-war songs.
@fireman1468 Idiot. This just happens to be a very popular version of the song. Who gives two shits if you notice "the ""Irish"" beating on about this version of the song." They SHOULD, and support this proud Boston band as well. WTF is your point about a Scot living in Adelaide anyway? Was he a secret convict expelled from the U.K. that was supposed to write songs for the Irish as an "infiltrator" and attempt to get access to the U.S.A. via a bar band with pride? You need a tinfoil hat.
@fireman1468 Who cares about you or whatever stupid point you were wishing to make you asshat.
GREAT SONG, BETTER PRODUCTION AND ACCESSABILITYTHAN MOST. THANK YOU FOR REMEMBERANCE "DROPKICK" AND FOR HONORING A PAINFUL MEMORY, AND A REMINDER THAT WE ARE ALL BROTHERS WHO FALL AND SHOULD BE MOURNED BY BROTHERS AND COMMON BLOOD.
@fireman1468 good man. my great great grandfather's surname was macbride and he died at gallipoli and i am Irish. peace and good luck with your whole anti-irish shit
@stikkbomb its is a good song. BTW, Russia wasn't communist in ww1. its the Germans who lost bigtime. so saying im a dumbass is like saying that a 500 year old man is stupid for thinking hes old.
@Mrchickenwings1 Germany was in fact a country, it was Imperial germany at the time 2nd Reich. and if you knew about history the treaty signed at the end of the war bankrupted germany until Hitler took over and quit paying all the other allied countries, thus started WWII, in a nut shell (yes I know its no where near that simple)
the Pogues did maltzing matilda, fortress did into legend, skrewdriver did greenfields of france, Stars and Stripes did For the power and the glory,if your going to do a tribute to soldiers take your time and do it fucking right, and ask soldiers if they like it. don't ask everybody else, their opinions are shit .
@docdaneekaflies Anit-war song/ tribute to soldiers, what's the diffrence? The soldier fell for the freedom to write the song, and the song is sung in honor of the fallen. "Who is it that protest? The brave are all dead, and those who survive respect the dead, so it must be the coward." Anonymous soldier to the Westboro Baptist Church
There are a hundred Irish bands that can blow this away. i like the pipe, but you look like a bunch of liberal Boston cheese dicks who discussed about not having play war in your back yards. let alone singing about ww1 infantry. Just a drunk Irish infantryman's opinion.maybe you weren't drunk like the rest of the irish that sung this song.
There are a hundred Irish bands that can blow this away. i like the pipe, but you look like a bunch of liberal Boston cheese dicks who discussed about not having play war in your back yards. let alone singing about ww1 infantry. Just a drunk Irish infantryman's opinion.
Without the Irish or the Scottish the Brits nor the Allies couldn't win any of their wars lol. Thankfully I'm a happy 50/50 mixture of both fighting spirits, and yet perhaps stupidly, as a Canadian, I'm still willing to fight and die for Queen and Country.
Great cover of such a powerful song. God bless all the fallen soldiers who have fought and are still fighting to try and make this world a better place
To all the Irish men who went to fight in the Great War for Britain and were told they would come home as hero's. God bless the hundreds of thousands of unrecognised Irish men who never came home again and to the ones who did and were never thanked by King or country .
obvviously 9 commie bastards didint' have a fucking clues...the rotten fatherless bastards of a thousands fathers. s'alright you 9 thieving fucks. I didn't serve adn fight for shits like you...you, I'd as so shoot as look at ya fucks.
If your Irish and arguing on this, you've got a lot to learn, this song is about how stupid war is, so stop trying to declare a one man war on the British, no one cares.
This song nearly brings tears to my eyes. It's very touching, and there is so much emotion. Dropkick Murphys definitely knows what they are doing, lol.
My grandfather fought in both wars. In ww1 he lost his left Arm by a landmine. He was send back to Ireland 1916 ..and fought in the irish citizen army!!!! Later, in ww2 he was hit by two bullets. He died in 1977. My hero!
my great grandad was killed in WW1 when his daughter (my grandma) was 6 weeks old he wasn't even a front line soldier, but a driver and his car was blown up, I am priveliged to say I got see his grave when I went on a school trip as we coincidentally went to the cemetary where he is buried, my heart goes out to all those who lost relatives who were never commemorated in that way
Then WHY are the bloody brits still walking the streets up north of the Isle of Ireland? Send THEM HOME along with the rest of the prods.........INLA.
@57MALIC - That right ya manky Pape animal .... these men went to France for their King, and we betrayed, obviously YOUR TYPE lack in respect. Exactly the same TYPE that attacked a nation whos troops were at war! Your day will never come .... Britain should act with the same methods as Israel does with Palestine !!
@57MALIC yeah, man, seriously... being Scottish myself, I can safely say.... FUCK THE BRITS, i can't even find a world map that lists Scotland as Scotland. All brits do is complain about the U.S.A and the IRA for shit they are more guilty of then almost any other nation. India, Scotland, Ireland, the native Americans (we were Brits back then). i really having trouble thinking of countries they haven't laid waste to and then blamed on America
@guerrillajack And being English I can say I hope you do discovr a lump on your body somewhere very soon. Nice to see that a fellow BRIT (get over it, you are British) blame the crimes of the BRITISH empire on just ENGLAND. Not all innocent, you tit.
My Grandfathers Brother died on the 10th of November 1918, 1 day before the armistice. When I hear this song I am always taken to a grave in the commonwealth war grave in Damascus Syria.
@badgut89 ... along with the mention of 1916... and the mention of a war that would end wars... and the topic of the green fields of France (which, I imagine, is a connection between the far from green trenches during the war and the now green fields where they once were).
who says that this song although hes saying willie micbride is to say that was his name he might just be hiding it or maybe just speaking for all whom died in the wars
First time I ever listened to this song without 10 pints of Guinness on board, This is a good effort, too many people sing this plastered and make a balls of it.
my feeling is this song is about everybody who died in wars and no one n particular but one thing remains true is that not one war takes us one step forward.
There's a gorgeous new version of this. Sung by a young woman - completely different take on it - sounds like she's singing into Willie McBride's ear. Have a look at Shaefri - The Green Fields of France.
"salute" To all those men/boys/children who have fault lived and died for the freedom of their country for there home for there friends for there family for the freedom to do what you will to be able to go to church to be able Catholic,Presbyterian,Baptist,Methodist,Jewish,ext... to be able to work and get paid, and to not have to worry for your life every time you walk out your door/yes I know some places you can't some pray a lot pray that you can... FOR FREEDOM FOR PEACE."salute"
@cidermanone.. Why as Dub do you have a right to comment on Yanks singing a song writtin by a Scot. Eric Bogle ( who wote this) Has also recorded this singing some of the verses in German. A true artist and advocate of peace
Sorry, this is awful, bloody wanna be irish yanks taking a Furey bros classic and soiling it.
Why?
Who is it for?
Deluded muppets, as a Dub I think you should get over the shame of being american and get on with it, leave our culture (and everyone elses) alone, interfering shower of losers.
If so, feck off!
Just look for the Furey Bros original and see what it's supposed to sound like, and wonder no more why few in Ireland have ever heard of these losers.
@cidermanone I must say, I'm proud to be a Bostonian Yank, mate. I am especially proud of the Irish blood and Scottish blood that runs through my veins! I am NOT ashamed that I am an American! Speaking of culture, we have the Irish, Scotts, Canadians,...etc to be thankful for that have contributed to our American country.
@cidermanone Sorry mate, Im Scottish and I hate all those bigoted pricks that use this song for their ends. Its a song about the futility of war , not a rebel song, written by an Aussie born in Scotland, and for the record , in my opinion, The Men They Couldnt Hang do by far the best version. Drop kick Murphys are a good band and they have every right to cover this great song.
ok thats not a joke: I think I'm depressive but not because of this song. I just have the feeling to comment this because it shows me how many people feel sadness and I'm not alone although I feel so.
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."
I like all versions of this song. Written by Eric Bogle, yes a Scot migrant to Oz. Does it matter which country Willie McBride came from? No, it's the point the song makes that no war will end all wars. It gets me each time no matter who sings it but it's point should not be lost - it speaks for every nationailty who fought for freedom and all ages remembering that many lied about their age to enlist and do their bit for what they thought would finally end suffering.
@bigmanoooo1 you and me also big man.heartbreaking song.once saw a theatre production a few years ago called bring the boys back home. set in the trenches in ww1 one of the actors sang this at the end not a dry eye in the house
@01odessa my great great uncle jimmy fought in that war and survived but lost his hearing but that didnt stop them sending him to ww2 which he also survived but lost his legs and all he got was a demob suit that didnt fit him lol....sometimes when im feeling low and depressed i think of old uncle jimmy apparently he was a tough bastard, he must have been to survive what he did but i salute all the soldiers who fought in those wars and all other soldiers who fight for their country
@HatersGonnaHate1000 tbf it could be bullshit for all i know i wasn't there and neither were you, that was the story i was told, it certainly isn't impossible because to put it mildly they were desperate for soldiers, btw i don't think he was completely deaf but whatever mate you wont believe what doesn't make sense to you and i wouldn't expect you to
For everyone here who used this song as a way of passing nationalist jingoistic comments and attacking other nations - it's people like you cause the kind of slaughter this song condemns and you've totally missed the point.. You should be ashamed.
writtten by eric bogle, a scotsman from peebles. the song "flowers of the forest" was a pipe tune wrtten for the battle at flodden field, alot of scots were slaughtered
actually the youngest Allied soldier to die in battle was James Condon from Dublin, (Royal Irish Fusiliers), aged 14!!!!!!
He lied about his age to join up, and coincendentally he's not buried too far away from the oldest soldier to fall in WW1 (56yrs old, an Ulsterman who lied about his age so he could serve alongside his son in the Inniskillens)
I was priveleged enough to visit their graves in Ypres
I have always had this song on my Ipod and would always hit shuffle on the Dropkick Murphys artist so I would just get a random shuffle, I was driving and I heard this song come on and I paused it, and I knew this song felt different. I dropped off what I needed and headed back and played this song from the start and I wept, I cried, and this song is now one of my favorites songs of all time.
ok im an irishman from limerick, born and breed and i love people thinking that they are irish ( because there great great great great grandad came from clare) by the way which is bullshit because wherever you are born and raised thats where you are from just because ur relations were irish doesnt meen you are, and im sorry but listening to this version compared to the fureys version it makes me sick. EITHER YOUR IRISH OR YOU ARE NOT GET OVER IT
@TheKosovokid66 well said mate, i love seeing the yanks run around in kilts trying to claim a clan because they had a relative 400 years ago in that clan. your not scottish your a yank and be happy with that. im scottish NOT BRITISH! flowers of the forest was written for all the scots slaughtered at the battle of flodden field at the hands of the english cunts. scottish irish wels celtic pride. alba bu brath!
it was written by Eric Vogle A Scottish Lad who immigrated to Australia, A lot of Scots, Irish and Welsh died at the Somme. They were deemed expendabe by the Brits, They were all cannon fodder.
@liamthedream If you think the pain and grief solely with the Celtic nation, you seem to forget that troops from across the world were slaughtered on the fields of France - Australian Canadian, French, Greek, Indian, South African, American, English, Romanian, German, Austrian and Hungarian.
To claim that any one nations dead should be placed above another belittles those who shed blood so you could come up with such tripe.
Followrd d.k.m for 15 years and will for another 15 years don't ever stop, go boston! And fuck all you haters !
jeep73321 6 days ago
Beautiful song. Greetings from Gran Canaria, Spain.
Silmar 6 days ago
See War Horse (preferably the play) or read the book for an incredibly moving indictment of the futility and horror of this particular war. This song is the perfect complement to it.
sandraoopie 2 weeks ago
I'm 1/4 irish and this song kiss fucking ass
xavierburning 3 weeks ago
Truly awsome. Allways brinng tears to my eyes
xavierburning 3 weeks ago
Ww1 song
TheYamaha109 1 month ago
@TheYamaha109 Genius
StigsIrishCousin 2 weeks ago
In this story the soldier fell in a game of empires that was the first world war. No bollocks about freedom. The poor bastard had the freedom to march into machine gun fire or be tied to a post and shot by his own masters. Thats the difference.
docdaneekaflies 1 month ago
French love it ! Merci !
Kiddyira 2 months ago
thank for the song !! :)
VidouSPP44 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Dropkick Murphys
lovley
SuperRo666 2 months ago
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lest we forget <3
jbroer98 2 months ago
Merci pour la chanson ! Bonjour de France ;)
MrSkinheadReggae 2 months ago 3
they are ture men
jesusnightlite 2 months ago
as a townie whose dad joined ww2 at age 16......i love des guys
bgleason700 2 months ago
war.....war never changes.......
exrayth 2 months ago 4
It's world war 1; not ww2
jaredbar23 2 months ago
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Go back to school niggas
jaredbar23 2 months ago
Almost got teary eyed. Is that wierd for a 16-year old boy? Maybe, but i'm not ashamed to say it! it's a Beautiful song!
claytoncastel 3 months ago
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Nothing aganist patriotism, but War is too terrible.
War had destroyed families;-(
MrNuschelowski 3 months ago
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MrNuschelowski 3 months ago
War is terrible. There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. (Mahatma Ghandi)
Thandalor 3 months ago
I'm german, and I hold the position that Germany wasn't *solely* responsible for WWI. Whenever I bring this up in discussion with english speakers, they often assume I think the germans were somehow "the good guys".
That's wrong, of course. The only good guys in WWI were the soldiers.
The villians were everyone else.
InnerPartisan 3 months ago
@InnerPartisan No way were Germany soley responsible, almost all the countries Germany fought against had Empire's which was Germany's wish. I'm not saying they were in the right but other countries found it easier to blame them for sending their soldiers to slaughter.
StaXDesigns 3 months ago
@InnerPartisan i'm buy no means a nazi or patriot (my dad's english my mom german) and i kinda agree because only through the vversailles treaty the german population was driven to go for extremists' like that c*nt hitler. And if you go further you might blame austria for starting WW1 wich caused the treaty to be installed but maybe that's going a bit far
schnorschrajaxx 3 months ago
@InnerPartisan No president wilson and france were mainly responsible for it.
nahAlban 3 months ago
Well sung . Well sung indeed .
212729h 4 months ago
dropkick murphy's killin it
TheJonnieredeyez 4 months ago
Great version.
MZophiel 4 months ago
I tear up everytime
tatetalk 4 months ago
To all the victims of 9/11 and the soldiers that continue to die.
jmanbloom 4 months ago
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@jmanbloom This has nothing to do with 9/11.
IntertubeTr0ll 4 months ago
i wanna fight all my friends, for not inviting me to partys and shit.
puungbooriz 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Dropkick Murphys
OMFG they're in Brighton in the photo no? Love Brighton !
Hadrihf 4 months ago
I am going to WW1 graves and I am going to visit them and just sit there.
avgnman72 4 months ago
Remember Rayk... 02.02.2007... I miss you... This Song was on his Funeral!!
Darren2279 5 months ago
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luzdereikimadrid 5 months ago
great song!
We learnd it in school.
My great-grandpa fight in WW1 in a german ordnance unit. First at the west-front, than at the east-front and told my grandpa in the 20th and 30th nothing about it.
He said untill his death in 1977 he was wounded in 1916 and was worked then in a shell-factory in his hometown.
But a cupple of months ago, I found old field-postcards of him he send to his wife and his eldest son home, which were stamped on X-mas 1917 in Hungry.
That´s an odd thing!!!
bengalkingcobra 6 months ago
This song represents the sentiments of all soldiers from all nations. It's much like Lili Marlene or Lorena, both are songs that were loved and adopted by nearly all sides in their respective conflicts. Even if you think the other side, whichever it was, was wrong, you should still respect them for fighting for what they believed in. Otherwise, you may as well damned your own troops too, and that just makes you a fool, you wouldn't have a country, or a home of your own, without them.
lamentofthelost 6 months ago
war sucks
rest in peace to all fallen soldiers,on every side.
albe2905 6 months ago 59
@albe2905 indeed war sucks! noone should enter the army anymore cus then they couldnt fight anymore!
this song says it all
derBUmann 5 months ago
<3 this song ..... and @ fireman 1468 , does it really matter who wrote it or who its about wen it relates to ppl world wide ... yes i think the irish have adopted it but so wat ??? the whole world adopted old lang syne and thats a welsh song ...
racheljd1 6 months ago
@racheljd1 actually its Scottish, Auld Lang Syne was originally a Robert Burns Poem
HighlandPiper1485 5 months ago
Soldat, gingst du gläubig und gern in den Tod? Oder hast du verzweifelt, verbittert, verroht, Deinen wirklichen Feind nicht erkannt bis zum Schluß? Ich hoffe, es traf dich ein sauberer Schuß. Oder hat ein Geschoß dir die Glieder zerfetzt, Hast du nach deiner Mutter geschrien bis zuletzt, Bist auf deinen Beinstümpfen weitergerannt, Und Dein Grab, birgt es mehr als ein Bein, eine Hand
barney2601 6 months ago 2
Just laughing at all the "Irish" beating on about this version of the song. It was actually written by a Scotsman who has spent most of his life living in Adelaide Australia. Eric Bogle wrote a lot of songs for the Irish band The Fureys during his career and several anti-war songs.
fireman1468 6 months ago 12
@fireman1468 Idiot. This just happens to be a very popular version of the song. Who gives two shits if you notice "the ""Irish"" beating on about this version of the song." They SHOULD, and support this proud Boston band as well. WTF is your point about a Scot living in Adelaide anyway? Was he a secret convict expelled from the U.K. that was supposed to write songs for the Irish as an "infiltrator" and attempt to get access to the U.S.A. via a bar band with pride? You need a tinfoil hat.
PrideandHonor14 1 month ago
@fireman1468 Who cares about you or whatever stupid point you were wishing to make you asshat.
GREAT SONG, BETTER PRODUCTION AND ACCESSABILITYTHAN MOST. THANK YOU FOR REMEMBERANCE "DROPKICK" AND FOR HONORING A PAINFUL MEMORY, AND A REMINDER THAT WE ARE ALL BROTHERS WHO FALL AND SHOULD BE MOURNED BY BROTHERS AND COMMON BLOOD.
PrideandHonor14 1 month ago
@PrideandHonor14 FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CAPS LOCK WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Y0g1b3ar13 1 week ago
@fireman1468 good man. my great great grandfather's surname was macbride and he died at gallipoli and i am Irish. peace and good luck with your whole anti-irish shit
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emmab310 2 weeks ago
@fireman1468 and whats the problem, the Irish never laid claim to it, they just sing it and well might I add.
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Eiktymi 6 months ago
lol, 9 communists clicked dislike.
TheOnlyMETHEREAPER 6 months ago
@TheOnlyMETHEREAPER you mean Butthurt Germans.
Mrchickenwings1 6 months ago
@Mrchickenwings1 just liked this video. best wishes from germany, dumbass.
stikkbomb 4 months ago
@stikkbomb its is a good song. BTW, Russia wasn't communist in ww1. its the Germans who lost bigtime. so saying im a dumbass is like saying that a 500 year old man is stupid for thinking hes old.
Mrchickenwings1 4 months ago
@Mrchickenwings1 there wasn't even a germany by the time of ww1. ;)
stikkbomb 4 months ago
@stikkbomb learn history. Germany was in ww1. it was a country. not like right now, but the ww1 version. there were no communists in ww1.
Mrchickenwings1 4 months ago
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stikkbomb 4 months ago
@Mrchickenwings1 stop trolling
bauttar 3 months ago
@Mrchickenwings1 Stop Trolling
bauttar 3 months ago
@bauttar dude communism settup shop in the 1920;s fool. read a fukin book.
Mrchickenwings1 3 months ago
@Mrchickenwings1 are you saying that the october revolution was in the 20's ??
bauttar 3 months ago
@bauttar no im just saying is that the 20's is when Lenin(or was it stalin?) that rolled on in and made communism the head honcho of Russia.
Mrchickenwings1 3 months ago
@Mrchickenwings1 That would be 1917.
BazLazarus80 1 month ago
@Mrchickenwings1 Germany was in fact a country, it was Imperial germany at the time 2nd Reich. and if you knew about history the treaty signed at the end of the war bankrupted germany until Hitler took over and quit paying all the other allied countries, thus started WWII, in a nut shell (yes I know its no where near that simple)
donnor569 3 months ago
written by eric bogle ..
jonjuliecat 6 months ago
As a war vet, and and Irish-American, I love this song.
Let my children never know the terror or the horror I have seen. There is never a "last post and chorus".
TWBiker 6 months ago 3
a moving song...
geeno8 7 months ago
the Pogues did maltzing matilda, fortress did into legend, skrewdriver did greenfields of france, Stars and Stripes did For the power and the glory,if your going to do a tribute to soldiers take your time and do it fucking right, and ask soldiers if they like it. don't ask everybody else, their opinions are shit .
gillespie74 7 months ago
@gillespie74 Tthe Pogues version is pretty shite, to be honest.
DanotheSnitch 6 months ago
@gillespie74 Its an anti war song. Not a tribute to soldiers.
docdaneekaflies 1 month ago
@docdaneekaflies Anit-war song/ tribute to soldiers, what's the diffrence? The soldier fell for the freedom to write the song, and the song is sung in honor of the fallen. "Who is it that protest? The brave are all dead, and those who survive respect the dead, so it must be the coward." Anonymous soldier to the Westboro Baptist Church
pocketkings250 1 month ago 2
There are a hundred Irish bands that can blow this away. i like the pipe, but you look like a bunch of liberal Boston cheese dicks who discussed about not having play war in your back yards. let alone singing about ww1 infantry. Just a drunk Irish infantryman's opinion.maybe you weren't drunk like the rest of the irish that sung this song.
gillespie74 7 months ago
There are a hundred Irish bands that can blow this away. i like the pipe, but you look like a bunch of liberal Boston cheese dicks who discussed about not having play war in your back yards. let alone singing about ww1 infantry. Just a drunk Irish infantryman's opinion.
gillespie74 7 months ago
Without the Irish or the Scottish the Brits nor the Allies couldn't win any of their wars lol. Thankfully I'm a happy 50/50 mixture of both fighting spirits, and yet perhaps stupidly, as a Canadian, I'm still willing to fight and die for Queen and Country.
ccAshercc 7 months ago 2
No more brother wars!!
izdurg4ever 7 months ago
Great cover of such a powerful song. God bless all the fallen soldiers who have fought and are still fighting to try and make this world a better place
nomercyforpercy16 7 months ago
To all the Irish men who went to fight in the Great War for Britain and were told they would come home as hero's. God bless the hundreds of thousands of unrecognised Irish men who never came home again and to the ones who did and were never thanked by King or country .
natalie1984ist 7 months ago
fighting for a COUNTRY is always wrong...
HAGGISuni23 7 months ago
@HAGGISuni23 so what else can you fight for, a STATE, a CITY, a NEIGHBORHOOD, a HOUSE? What the hell are you talking about?
bassmastah13 7 months ago
obvviously 9 commie bastards didint' have a fucking clues...the rotten fatherless bastards of a thousands fathers. s'alright you 9 thieving fucks. I didn't serve adn fight for shits like you...you, I'd as so shoot as look at ya fucks.
GrigoriZhukov 8 months ago
@GrigoriZhukov Whoa Whoa The Communist literally have nothing to do with this
kyyyyyyle123 8 months ago 2
this is an awesome song. originally wrote by the fureys back in the 70s. theyre acually my really distant cousins haha
oobla05 8 months ago
@oobla05 "originally wrote by the fureys back in the 70s" The song was written by Eric Bogle. A Scottish Borderer who moved to Australia.
gaconnochie 7 months ago
you guys rock!!
gazkk 8 months ago
If your Irish and arguing on this, you've got a lot to learn, this song is about how stupid war is, so stop trying to declare a one man war on the British, no one cares.
Farruns 8 months ago
these gobshites dont half know how to murder a song
liamobrien06 8 months ago 2
This song nearly brings tears to my eyes. It's very touching, and there is so much emotion. Dropkick Murphys definitely knows what they are doing, lol.
Iuchara 9 months ago
@Iuchara what rob irish songs and dress like scotts
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dayo1075 9 months ago
to they 8 people that disliked this song line them up an shooot them !
bigtruck182 9 months ago
@bigtruck182 Agreed !
Zerpo18 9 months ago
@bigtruck182 yea i guess you did understand the vid...
Minamoto77 9 months ago
My grandfather fought in both wars. In ww1 he lost his left Arm by a landmine. He was send back to Ireland 1916 ..and fought in the irish citizen army!!!! Later, in ww2 he was hit by two bullets. He died in 1977. My hero!
trollhorn1977 9 months ago 2
@trollhorn1977 a ture hero!!!!! god bless em
doomvitus88 9 months ago
It's not about changing the world, It's about doing our BEST to leave the world the way it is
guerrillajack 9 months ago
It's not about saving the world, It's about doing our BEST to leave the world the way it is..
guerrillajack 9 months ago
am i the only one whos wants this played at their funeral
darodaro9 9 months ago
I hope all the troops come home safe and RIP to who all have died
TheZero4life 9 months ago
Awesome version of a great song.
01jdubya 9 months ago
Great Good Song
NightGraveHunting 9 months ago
my great grandad was killed in WW1 when his daughter (my grandma) was 6 weeks old he wasn't even a front line soldier, but a driver and his car was blown up, I am priveliged to say I got see his grave when I went on a school trip as we coincidentally went to the cemetary where he is buried, my heart goes out to all those who lost relatives who were never commemorated in that way
kathrynashworth1 10 months ago
Good Song
NightGraveHunting 10 months ago
Then WHY are the bloody brits still walking the streets up north of the Isle of Ireland? Send THEM HOME along with the rest of the prods.........INLA.
57MALIC 10 months ago
@57MALIC - That right ya manky Pape animal .... these men went to France for their King, and we betrayed, obviously YOUR TYPE lack in respect. Exactly the same TYPE that attacked a nation whos troops were at war! Your day will never come .... Britain should act with the same methods as Israel does with Palestine !!
No Mercy ... No Surrender!!
willyoustand86 9 months ago
@57MALIC yeah, man, seriously... being Scottish myself, I can safely say.... FUCK THE BRITS, i can't even find a world map that lists Scotland as Scotland. All brits do is complain about the U.S.A and the IRA for shit they are more guilty of then almost any other nation. India, Scotland, Ireland, the native Americans (we were Brits back then). i really having trouble thinking of countries they haven't laid waste to and then blamed on America
guerrillajack 9 months ago
@guerrillajack And being English I can say I hope you do discovr a lump on your body somewhere very soon. Nice to see that a fellow BRIT (get over it, you are British) blame the crimes of the BRITISH empire on just ENGLAND. Not all innocent, you tit.
DarylJCheetham 9 months ago
@57MALIC Because they want to remain British.....
sctt44 9 months ago
My Grandfathers Brother died on the 10th of November 1918, 1 day before the armistice. When I hear this song I am always taken to a grave in the commonwealth war grave in Damascus Syria.
mickki40 11 months ago
This song is defiantly about world war 1 It mentions gas, barbed wire, and gas. Yep defiantly about WW1
badgut89 11 months ago
@badgut89 1916...kinda gives it away
REVAN2338 10 months ago
@badgut89 ... along with the mention of 1916... and the mention of a war that would end wars... and the topic of the green fields of France (which, I imagine, is a connection between the far from green trenches during the war and the now green fields where they once were).
GalacticCollision 8 months ago
Great Song!
Respect from Hungary!
B3T3GF1U 11 months ago
If people could just stop arguing... To be honest, if anything, that what you can learn from this Beautiful song
Fillifjonken 11 months ago
who says that this song although hes saying willie micbride is to say that was his name he might just be hiding it or maybe just speaking for all whom died in the wars
darknessoftheasward 11 months ago
Angelic Upstarts
ArrivaLaFranja21 11 months ago
This song can really be applied to any war, I was actually surprised DKM could do such a powerful cover of the song.
RickyMcGinnis 11 months ago
First time I ever listened to this song without 10 pints of Guinness on board, This is a good effort, too many people sing this plastered and make a balls of it.
patblackwell1 1 year ago
@patblackwell1
10 pints is that???
i can knock 25 back and still feel no effect....... lol just joking but your right about the song
footballelmaestro123 10 months ago
As an ulster man/norn irishman does our bloodline/history make your blood boil that much we are here to stay ..............
hayesjon 1 year ago
my feeling is this song is about everybody who died in wars and no one n particular but one thing remains true is that not one war takes us one step forward.
ODONNOVANROSSA 1 year ago
There's a gorgeous new version of this. Sung by a young woman - completely different take on it - sounds like she's singing into Willie McBride's ear. Have a look at Shaefri - The Green Fields of France.
SuperListener123 1 year ago
"salute" To all those men/boys/children who have fault lived and died for the freedom of their country for there home for there friends for there family for the freedom to do what you will to be able to go to church to be able Catholic,Presbyterian,Baptist,Methodist,Jewish,ext... to be able to work and get paid, and to not have to worry for your life every time you walk out your door/yes I know some places you can't some pray a lot pray that you can... FOR FREEDOM FOR PEACE."salute"
Nichster999999 1 year ago 2
yes there are some word mistakes I hope most if not all will see them like fault edit make into fought and if there are any others.
Nichster999999 1 year ago
@cidermanone.. Why as Dub do you have a right to comment on Yanks singing a song writtin by a Scot. Eric Bogle ( who wote this) Has also recorded this singing some of the verses in German. A true artist and advocate of peace
Kevxlvii 1 year ago
Sorry, this is awful, bloody wanna be irish yanks taking a Furey bros classic and soiling it.
Why?
Who is it for?
Deluded muppets, as a Dub I think you should get over the shame of being american and get on with it, leave our culture (and everyone elses) alone, interfering shower of losers.
If so, feck off!
Just look for the Furey Bros original and see what it's supposed to sound like, and wonder no more why few in Ireland have ever heard of these losers.
cidermanone 1 year ago
@cidermanone I must say, I'm proud to be a Bostonian Yank, mate. I am especially proud of the Irish blood and Scottish blood that runs through my veins! I am NOT ashamed that I am an American! Speaking of culture, we have the Irish, Scotts, Canadians,...etc to be thankful for that have contributed to our American country.
KMac537 1 year ago
@cidermanone Sorry mate, Im Scottish and I hate all those bigoted pricks that use this song for their ends. Its a song about the futility of war , not a rebel song, written by an Aussie born in Scotland, and for the record , in my opinion, The Men They Couldnt Hang do by far the best version. Drop kick Murphys are a good band and they have every right to cover this great song.
iceonaboy 1 year ago
@cidermanone a bit precious arnt we?
surfin4 1 year ago
@cidermanone gobshite....loads of ppl have heard of these ye mongo
niallglennon83 8 months ago
Doesn't get better than DKM. Not many will re-do an old classic and not many can re-do one this well. Here's to Eric Bogle and his unforgetable tune
jamslmxs 1 year ago
Doesn't get better than DKM. Not many will re-do an old classic and not many can re-do one this well.
jamslmxs 1 year ago
ok thats not a joke: I think I'm depressive but not because of this song. I just have the feeling to comment this because it shows me how many people feel sadness and I'm not alone although I feel so.
occulis 1 year ago
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."
-Mustafa Ataturk
bigbenhoward 1 year ago
A great song by a great band. They are awesome in concert too.
plainsteel1 1 year ago
My grandfather was a veteran on the World War. He was shot in the back. God bless him.
wisard734 1 year ago
I like all versions of this song. Written by Eric Bogle, yes a Scot migrant to Oz. Does it matter which country Willie McBride came from? No, it's the point the song makes that no war will end all wars. It gets me each time no matter who sings it but it's point should not be lost - it speaks for every nationailty who fought for freedom and all ages remembering that many lied about their age to enlist and do their bit for what they thought would finally end suffering.
martiplug 1 year ago
Awesome song.
kalinkacampbell 1 year ago
i sometimes get teary eyed when i hear this song and im not ashamed to admit it
bigmanoooo1 1 year ago
@bigmanoooo1 you and me also big man.heartbreaking song.once saw a theatre production a few years ago called bring the boys back home. set in the trenches in ww1 one of the actors sang this at the end not a dry eye in the house
01odessa 1 year ago
@01odessa my great great uncle jimmy fought in that war and survived but lost his hearing but that didnt stop them sending him to ww2 which he also survived but lost his legs and all he got was a demob suit that didnt fit him lol....sometimes when im feeling low and depressed i think of old uncle jimmy apparently he was a tough bastard, he must have been to survive what he did but i salute all the soldiers who fought in those wars and all other soldiers who fight for their country
bigmanoooo1 1 year ago 65
@bigmanoooo1 He fought in ww2 whilst deaf? im sorry but thats bullshit
HatersGonnaHate1000 7 months ago
@HatersGonnaHate1000 well i cant make you believe it but if i were you i would do some research...you may be surprised
bigmanoooo1 7 months ago
@HatersGonnaHate1000 tbf it could be bullshit for all i know i wasn't there and neither were you, that was the story i was told, it certainly isn't impossible because to put it mildly they were desperate for soldiers, btw i don't think he was completely deaf but whatever mate you wont believe what doesn't make sense to you and i wouldn't expect you to
bigmanoooo1 7 months ago
Are you sure this is the Dropkicks, sounds more like Joe Strummer from the soundtrack of Black Hawk Down.
almosthuman27 1 year ago
best version i've heard yet..
livin in ireland 37 years.
also strikes a chord cause great grandfather died in this war.
defending what??
ThePaulg74 1 year ago
Im irish and i hear this song alot by different bands but this honestly is by far the best version i have ever heard what a song!!!!
frankymagoo 1 year ago
This is my favorit song from now on!
danielschiffers 1 year ago
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Lest We Forget
ozoffroader 1 year ago
For everyone here who used this song as a way of passing nationalist jingoistic comments and attacking other nations - it's people like you cause the kind of slaughter this song condemns and you've totally missed the point.. You should be ashamed.
IanErc 1 year ago 129
@IanErc
100% agreed.
alanthedrum 1 year ago
@IanErc
wise words my friends
Peace
Ragnarock83 1 year ago
@IanErc beautifully put, sir
guerrillajack 9 months ago
@IanErc There is a reason your comment has 96 likes.......and that is because you hit the nail on the head.....wel said
hcdrummer19 8 months ago
@IanErc
It's you, who missed the point. This song is a symbol to commemorate many a people from many a nation.
It's like "Waltzing Matilda" in a way. So shut up and listen to the song.
Rupertass 6 months ago
writtten by eric bogle, a scotsman from peebles. the song "flowers of the forest" was a pipe tune wrtten for the battle at flodden field, alot of scots were slaughtered
RossFaeScotland 1 year ago
actually the youngest Allied soldier to die in battle was James Condon from Dublin, (Royal Irish Fusiliers), aged 14!!!!!!
He lied about his age to join up, and coincendentally he's not buried too far away from the oldest soldier to fall in WW1 (56yrs old, an Ulsterman who lied about his age so he could serve alongside his son in the Inniskillens)
I was priveleged enough to visit their graves in Ypres
conorcraig1 1 year ago
why the hell does this video have 6 dislikes
granpasgrave 1 year ago
scottish irish punk. now the arseholes will have to listen
showaddy11 1 year ago
rip to all those who died at the Somme- Us back in Ulster miss our Grandfathers from the 36th Ulster and the 18th Irish- lest we forget.
BikergearUK 1 year ago
dont know about any of those comments below but this is NOT a serious cover surely its not to good to say the least eh
grufty53 1 year ago
I have always had this song on my Ipod and would always hit shuffle on the Dropkick Murphys artist so I would just get a random shuffle, I was driving and I heard this song come on and I paused it, and I knew this song felt different. I dropped off what I needed and headed back and played this song from the start and I wept, I cried, and this song is now one of my favorites songs of all time.
Bigpimpof808 1 year ago
over and over making me shiver. Glory to the fallen of all the nations, and shame to those who made them fall.
benchee500 1 year ago
ok im an irishman from limerick, born and breed and i love people thinking that they are irish ( because there great great great great grandad came from clare) by the way which is bullshit because wherever you are born and raised thats where you are from just because ur relations were irish doesnt meen you are, and im sorry but listening to this version compared to the fureys version it makes me sick. EITHER YOUR IRISH OR YOU ARE NOT GET OVER IT
TheKosovokid66 1 year ago
@TheKosovokid66 OMG my ppl Ryans btw are in limereach...small world.
Niex1 1 year ago
@TheKosovokid66 shut the fuck up, get over yourself.
midevil656 1 year ago
@midevil656 AGREED!!! Some "yanks" happen to be proud of their Irish herritage!
dealer7210 1 year ago
@TheKosovokid66 tell it to the yanks......seriously!
swollower 1 year ago
@swollower hey, shush, quit arguing, enjoy the song. America ftw btw
PerryPantha 1 year ago
@TheKosovokid66 well said mate, i love seeing the yanks run around in kilts trying to claim a clan because they had a relative 400 years ago in that clan. your not scottish your a yank and be happy with that. im scottish NOT BRITISH! flowers of the forest was written for all the scots slaughtered at the battle of flodden field at the hands of the english cunts. scottish irish wels celtic pride. alba bu brath!
RossFaeScotland 1 year ago
@RossFaeScotland I feel sorry for you having to live with such hatred, I really do.
ScreamingTc 1 year ago
@TheKosovokid66 Does the word HERRITAGE mean nothing to you? You are clearly ignorant and may want to educate yourself!
dealer7210 1 year ago
it was written by Eric Vogle A Scottish Lad who immigrated to Australia, A lot of Scots, Irish and Welsh died at the Somme. They were deemed expendabe by the Brits, They were all cannon fodder.
liamthedream 1 year ago
@liamthedream the scots welsh and irish
are brits..by the way a few english men died that day aswell
catpainblackudder01 1 year ago
@catpainblackudder01
Irish are not "brits"
kingsomething2008 1 year ago
@kingsomething2008 hmm...a few of them are..the 36th,
and how well did you treat the 16th,and under which flag did they march.
but you are right the republic are not brits.but ulster is
catpainblackudder01 1 year ago
@liamthedream If you think the pain and grief solely with the Celtic nation, you seem to forget that troops from across the world were slaughtered on the fields of France - Australian Canadian, French, Greek, Indian, South African, American, English, Romanian, German, Austrian and Hungarian.
To claim that any one nations dead should be placed above another belittles those who shed blood so you could come up with such tripe.
ScreamingTc 1 year ago 4
@ScreamingTc You summed up what I was thinking perfectly. We should respect ALL dead, not just the troops from our home countries.