if you love the history of the first world war , you have to vissit the talbot house in the belgium city poperinge. this was the place where the soldiers of the first world war came to recover and return to the front of ieper
You know, In World War 1 many British soldiers actually dressed up as women and put on entertainment just to keep up morale? Oh its a long way to tip a fairy, its along way to go...
George Churnock a Daily Mail Correspondent trapped in France on holiday, sent a report back to London about witnessing the Rangers march in Boulougne and the lyrics were published with the story - the rest is history as they say. The Connaught Rangers sent representatives to George Churnock's funeral in the 1930's despite the fact the Regiment had been disbanded on the formation of The Irish Free State in 1922
This song was "introduced" to the British Expeditionary Force by the 2nd Bn The Connaught Rangers (formerly depoted in Tipperary Town) as the marched through Boulogne in August 1914.
Ha ha I didn't know the lyrics were so humorous. I bet Frank Judge had a laugh writing that over a few pints in a pub. Was it Frank who also wrote " I see", said the blind man, "No you don't" said the mute". "I heard that" said the deaf man and off they strode on route.. :)))))))))) .
Imagine the Irish mercenaries singing this song during WW1 walking into a battlefield flooded with almost certain death. Tipperary must've seemed an awful long way from a hell hole like Verdun
John McCormack did turn in a characteristically world class performance on this monster classic. But for my money, the definitive version is the one by the American Quartet, featuring the lead vocal of the great Billy Murray.
@spongebo13 It's no better here across the pond, trust me on that one. Our economy is going down the toilet by the hour and inflation is happening by the minute.
@spongebo13 I know mate, there are negative aspects, but compared to everybody else we are definitely well off. If you've ever seen an idiot abroad, I think at the start of the second season Pilko's like "people always moan... oh this country's going to the dogs... IT ISN'T. GO TO MONGOLIA." LOL :)
@maxiboy666 We Imperialist Germans are not Huns >.> Enough with your silly Propaganda, We fought with Honor....Well you did aswell my English Friends :P
The writer of this song, Jack Judge, came from Oldbury in the Black Country area of the West Midlands a few miles south of where I live. There is now a building called Jack Judge House in Oldbury as well as a street named Judge Close in his honour.
Just heard the melody of the chorus in the Peanuts movie 'Snoopy Come Home' and had always been curious about the song as a kid. It's good to finally hear the song in its entirety and know its significance.
Back in the old Double Duce we used to sing this while we tinkered on our planes. Jolly good time I do say. To bad our best singer was shot down by some Hun Bastard.
The singer is Count John McCormack(He was a Papal Count). It was used as a British Army recruiting song in Ireland during the World War 1 and the rest as they say is history. In the First verse he sang "..everyone was gay..." in those days, gay had a different connation...however, these days the song is played at all military parades in the UK, Ireland and the USA. If you meet someone from Tipperary, inevitaby someone will remark 'It's a long way to Tipperary...." It's a tradition now,
@tjnuhh96 It doesn't really means anything but if you look it up on wikipedia you will find its origins. In case it is "Everyone was gay" that is confusing "gay" did not mean homosexual until the 1970's. Before then it just meant light hearted and happy.
@freebeerfordworkers It doesn't really mean anything? It's about an Irish soldier sent to fight for Britain in World War I and his homesickness. While in London his heart still remains with Ireland and his hometown of Tipperary.
@ericjames85 Complete nonsense - it was written 2 years before the war by Jack Judge a music hall singer from the Birmingham whose parents were Irish. He was bet 5/- ($1) he could not write a song in 24 hours & if you listen to some of the verses it implies the Irish are a bit stupid and today he would considered "racist".
That might have been true when it was written, but it became a well-loved song of the 1st World War period, and I am sure that when soldiers sang it, or their families at home, they thought about the homesickness of the troops.
@orlando098 I agree but people should not make political points out of songs as good ones are international and have a life of their own. An good example would be Lili Marlene which was a German song loved by both German & British soldiers. in WW2
OK, to be honest I missed the political point. I thought ericjames was just saying the meaning was about soldiers feeling homesick. But I suppose he might have been making some point about Britain and Ireland
@ericjames85 Paddy wrote a letter To his Irish Molly-O, Saying, "Should you not receive it, Write and let me know!" "If I make mistakes in spelling, Molly, dear," said he, "Remember, it's the pen that's bad, Don't lay the blame on me! Chorus Molly wrote a neat reply To Irish Paddy-O, Saying Mike Maloney Wants to marry me, and so Leave the Strand and Piccadilly Or you'll be to blame, For love has fairly drove me silly: Hoping you're the same! Innocent times - His parents were from Tipperary.
@ericjames85 It was written BEFORE the First World War, and the Irishman in it is NOT a soldier, nor has he been sent to fight anywhere.
It's about a homesick Irishman in London, who writes to his girl at home, and asks his her to write back and let him know if she hasn't received his letter. His girl says, come home now or I'll marry someone else. I dare say it amused the British music-hall audiences no end - it fed their prejudiced idea of Paddy as a simpleton and a clown.
@Toni 1708 I had no dig at Irish whatsoever. On the contrary, i think Irish position is similar to Serbian in some aspects. Of course, every national story is unique.
The war to end all wars produced the peace to end all peace - the Treaty of Versailles, an Imperialist division of the world into the relative spheres of influence among the Imperialist preponderant powers, repudiating the very principle of the right to self determination and reneging the guarantees and promises made to China and the Arabs. A peace settlement deliberately designated with lofty terms on a superficial level as subterfuge to conceal the underlying cynical imperialist interests!
loves how people have a turned a perfectly happy nostalgic song into a chance to have an argument about all sorts of stuff that has nothing to do with the song, including the Balkans Conflict, the Holocaust, and different ethnicities in British Society.Seriously? :L
@WhyOhWhyMusic It's so annoying that people do that isn't it? It seems commonplace on YouTube for people to create arguments about religion and the like, why? What a fabulous song anyway and i'm in awe that you can upload these songs, I probably have the 'equipment' but would know where to start! So thanks.
@LadyHarrington2k Person A posts something person B disagrees with, person A & B then argue then person C, D & E come and watch throwing odd comments in,
@WhyOhWhyMusic What you forget is that the war this song popularizes was, in essence, a "Third Balkan War," contributed to the rise of fascism and the Holocaust, and started on the eve of a major crisis between the Irish and the British.
You could post twenty videos of Mr. Rogers neighborhood and they would still be having arguments about the holocaust and the balkans. Argument is the one thing youtube commenters strive for, because they don't have to look at the other person they are talking to in the eyes... just type words on the keyboard.
Jack11anbar, Thank you SOO much for posting this. Please keep it on! Do you know anywhere I can get this version of the song?
Last year in Soc St. my teacher (who we messed with) had a power point and it glitched. So the whole class period while he was presenting WWI this song played through. After a while he got really annoyed and the song started to catch on. So the whole class began singing this. To this day we walk by him and sing this. I want to download it for old times. Haha
Jack11anbar, Thank you SOO much for posting this. Please keep it on! Do you know anywhere I can get this version of the song?
Last year in Soc St. my teacher (who we messed with) had a power point and it glitched. So the whole class period while he was presenting WWI this song played through. After a while he got really annoyed and the song started to catch on. So the whole class began singing this. To this day we walk by him and sing this. I want to download it for old times. Haha. Thanks again
Jack11anbar, Thank you SOO much for posting this. Please keep it on! Do you know anywhere I can get this version of the song?
Last year in Soc St. my teacher (who we messed with) had a power point and it glitched. So the whole class period while he was presenting WWI this song played through. After a while he got really annoyed and the song started to catch on. So the whole class began singing this. To this day we walk by him and sing this. I want to download it for old times. Haha. Thanks again
@Willtap Well i think this song is more nostalgic than patriotic, they wanted to remember the good old days before the shitstorm of suffering decended on everyone. Its more of an escapeism song than a lot of the pro war propaganda floating about at the time.
If they only knew what they were getting into when they marched off singing. Here's a quote that sums the war up well: "I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele"
My Great Granddad was a artillery field gunner. He got his leg blown off by an explosive shell whilst riding on one of the horses that pulled the guns. The only picture that I have of him is him sitting on an old triumph motorcycle. He looked so much like my Dad. :P
@ england 1418- The country that bore the heaviest casualties WW1, Serbia, has much worse destiny than your homeland. Serbs were good enough to die fighting for the Entente cause and good enough to win the first Allied victories of the war, on Cer and Kolubara. However, when a new wave of German imperialism came in the 1990s, you stood aside and even supported their ally Croatia. Unlike Germans who supported Croatia wholeheartedly, you forgot and ridiculed your ally in both world wars- Serbia.
@snmage presumably the lack of support for Serbia in the 1990s was related to the genocide and ethnic cleansing carried out by the Serbian Armed Forces during the Balkans conflict... ring a bell? as far as I can tell, there is no difference between the Serbian Army and the Nazi SS, so what reason would we have for supporting the Serbs? This 'German Imperialism' is propaganda created so that Serbs can try and pretend innocence.. No progress will ever happen if Serbians cannot accept their part
@SlydertheSpyder No progress will ever happen if Serbians cannot accept their part in what was the the worst human rights abuse in European history since the holoaust
@SlydertheSpyder It sounds strange comparing genocide that took lives of at least 12 million people in concentration camps to civil war in which both sides had their warcrimes and their attrocities. Of course, you know aboujt Srebrenica, but you've never heard of Potochari crimes by Moslems over the Serbs. You know about alleged ethnic cleansing that was perpetrated by Serbs, but you've never heard of the fact that Croats killed over 2700 Serbs in Oluja military action,
@SlydertheSpyder ...during which 90% of Serbs had to leave their homes in Croatia, where they lived for centuries for good. Of course, you don't want to know the facts, because your country's policy can't be wrong. Brits are alway right and they always win? ;) Mentioning the SS, do you have any idea how many Serbian civilians died in nazi concentration camps in WWII? Over 500 000. Compare that to 3000 bodies found in Srebrenica. You , Brits, you invented the concentration camps, in Boer Wars.
@snmage how can you have s dig at the irish who are still fighting for freedom after so many years do you not realise that they have suffered at the british hand also
My late Uncle fought in WW 1, He never talked about it. when asked, he would pause,then change the subject. He always kept busy, one day years ago, I found a recording of this song, I put it on his victrola record player, then I saw my Uncle, tears were flowing down his cheeks, I put the record back where I found it.
My Late Uncle fought in Europe in 1917-18, He never spoke about the war, When asked, He would pause for a moment and then change the subject. My Father told me that his brother was in the trenches and that was all he knew, When he came home from the war, he kept busy , I found an old recording when visiting my Uncles farm and played this song on his victorola, Then I seen my Uncle, tears were flowing down his cheeks, I put the record back.
Young white males going off in droves to kill each other just doesn't seem like something to "honor" or be proud of. Without the loss of the millions upon millions of white men who died in both of the wars, Europe and North America might have had a fighting chance against the non-white hordes who have infested them.
@canadiankopite Completely agree, the politicians should have been more 'race aware' , should have valued the white lives that they threw away so carelessly.
'Young white males going off in droves to kill each other just doesn't seem like something to "honor" or be proud of. Without the loss of the millions upon millions of white men who died in both of the wars, Europe and North America might have had a fighting chance against the non-white hordes who have infested them.'
This song is so famous, because, The Irish bregaide of Men, sang this, while marching into the town of Bologne, France, And so it became the anthem of WWI
Heard this recently on an old fairground ride. It silenced me immediately as it made me think of all the young men of many countries who fought in WW1 - whether they died, or lived on - and those who lost loved ones. My grandfather was badly gassed - he was only 19. To show his mother in Lincoln that the "enemy" had good men as well, he sent her a crucifix taken from a young German soldier who had been killed. That cross reminds me every day of their sacrifice. Let us never forget them.
@Daybreak0500 what's a crucifix? i'm European and don't speak that great English to understand what that is. Shame of your grandfather :( It's a shame WW1 never really got the attention that it actually deserves like Vietnam! But that's a other story :)
And even german soldiers loved this beautiful song, like the brits and american soldiers loved the german song by Lilly Marleen. Isn't that funny in strange way? We fought each other, but we loved the songs of our enemies.
Fear GOD who hath power to cast you into HELL(Luke 12:5)! Fear God and depart from evil(Proverbs 3:7)! God is ANGRY with the wicked everyday(Psalm 7:11)! Jesus Christ is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE, there is NO OTHER WAY to be saved(John 14:6)! For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved(John 3:17)! TURN FROM YOUR SINS AND SUBMIT 2 THE LORDSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST NOW! DON'T BOAST OF HAVING TOMORROW! Proverbs 27:1
Sorry: God save Mahatma Gandi, Zulu people,Roosvelt, Galtieri, Ben gurion and all who fight against british imperialism, V1 and V2 ruled. 1 giorno fa
@hectorfprez every colony of every country that became free except maybe British india was in bad state and are now healing the wounds zimbabwe was very rich it killed almost al white intelligent people and is one of the poorest country's in the world british took care of those country's o i love dutch India and suriname go imperialism!
This better be in Bioshock: Infinite.
srka42 1 day ago
This song is fucking creepy.
woobiehastelly 5 days ago
@woobiehastelly Its history, still better then adele and justin beiber
CGamer64 3 days ago
@CGamer64 Definitely. This stuff just seems so eerie. Not bad though!
woobiehastelly 3 days ago
@woobiehastelly It is creepy, I would love to walk down a empty city in ruins listening to this song! with ZOMBIES!
CGamer64 3 days ago
Ayn Rand loved this song.
outsidemendham 1 week ago
Old music is fine, but people who hark on about its qualities whilst bagging modern music are dickheads. Douchebaggery of the highest order.
eedobee 1 week ago
if you love the history of the first world war , you have to vissit the talbot house in the belgium city poperinge. this was the place where the soldiers of the first world war came to recover and return to the front of ieper
mrrodebeer 3 weeks ago
i soo love this song
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Just a couple of points to remember:
1. This song was written when the whole of Ireland was part of the UK, and thus it makes this song British.
2. It was written by Jack Judge who had Irish parents but was born in the West Midlands, England.
RoyalistNationalist 3 weeks ago
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You know, In World War 1 many British soldiers actually dressed up as women and put on entertainment just to keep up morale? Oh its a long way to tip a fairy, its along way to go...
STOPTHEEU 3 weeks ago
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STOPTHEEU 3 weeks ago
what a great classic :') Keep calm boys and carry on!!!
EliasCalabretta1 1 month ago
stupid war
futushim 1 month ago
Great song sung by a great singer!!! Thank you for posting!
GMYellowstone 1 month ago
George Churnock a Daily Mail Correspondent trapped in France on holiday, sent a report back to London about witnessing the Rangers march in Boulougne and the lyrics were published with the story - the rest is history as they say. The Connaught Rangers sent representatives to George Churnock's funeral in the 1930's despite the fact the Regiment had been disbanded on the formation of The Irish Free State in 1922
HIBERNIAN04 1 month ago
This song was "introduced" to the British Expeditionary Force by the 2nd Bn The Connaught Rangers (formerly depoted in Tipperary Town) as the marched through Boulogne in August 1914.
HIBERNIAN04 1 month ago
Ha ha I didn't know the lyrics were so humorous. I bet Frank Judge had a laugh writing that over a few pints in a pub. Was it Frank who also wrote " I see", said the blind man, "No you don't" said the mute". "I heard that" said the deaf man and off they strode on route.. :)))))))))) .
jimmyonemillion 2 months ago
Thumbs up if La Grande Illusion brought you here.
Datelesswonders 2 months ago
Ahh Goodnight Mr Tom!
headfirst1987 2 months ago
Lol If this song was as racist toward black people as it is to Irish, It probably would e forgotten by now
littleXjack 2 months ago
@littleXjack They're the same race as us! haha! But there is such a thing as anti-Irish sentiment, which I disagree with.
Tankballer 2 months ago
@Tankballer True that, I don't even believe in races anyway :P
littleXjack 2 months ago
Imagine the Irish mercenaries singing this song during WW1 walking into a battlefield flooded with almost certain death. Tipperary must've seemed an awful long way from a hell hole like Verdun
littleXjack 2 months ago
John McCormack did turn in a characteristically world class performance on this monster classic. But for my money, the definitive version is the one by the American Quartet, featuring the lead vocal of the great Billy Murray.
MikeBlitzMag 2 months ago
@spongebo13 It's no better here across the pond, trust me on that one. Our economy is going down the toilet by the hour and inflation is happening by the minute.
xXBrad100Xx 3 months ago
This song makes me proud to be British.... then I remember how shit it actually is here.
spongebo13 3 months ago
@spongebo13 I love the fact this song makes you proud to be British
littleXjack 2 months ago 2
@spongebo13 Open your eyes mate we're better off here than most of the world! Try living in Somalia!
Tankballer 2 months ago
@Tankballer I never said it was the shittest place on earth... just pretty shit
spongebo13 2 months ago
@spongebo13 I know mate, there are negative aspects, but compared to everybody else we are definitely well off. If you've ever seen an idiot abroad, I think at the start of the second season Pilko's like "people always moan... oh this country's going to the dogs... IT ISN'T. GO TO MONGOLIA." LOL :)
Tankballer 2 months ago
My gun spreads bullets like cancer!!!
gigel2006 3 months ago
I have play this song when I'm stomping on children.
TheTruthSeek 3 months ago
@TheTruthSeek WTF
mrmagicroundcircle 3 days ago
Happy Armistice Day Everyone - Lest We Forget!
SamhainBe 3 months ago
I always have to play this song when flying as the RAF in any WWII or WWI flight sim Especially in the bombers.
SlayerOne301 3 months ago
I landed here, because Tim Taylor sang this in Tool Time. Classic.
bestdamnalex 3 months ago
@bestdamnalex Hahaha, he did?? Which episode? :D
enest94 3 months ago
For some reason I like this, not sure why.
legofoxanimations 4 months ago
"Peñarol, tu grato nombre... derrotado o vencedor"
cototo11 4 months ago
After listening to this I feel like hopping over the channel and giving the Hun a good kicking.
maxiboy666 5 months ago
@maxiboy666 We Imperialist Germans are not Huns >.> Enough with your silly Propaganda, We fought with Honor....Well you did aswell my English Friends :P
CptainGarmaZabi 4 months ago 8
Ohyeah, this brings back memories of Das Boot , and all the hours I have spent patrolling the Atlantic in Silenthunter III and V .
enest94 5 months ago
This song was used in my drama exam on 17th May 2011
willdaviesable 6 months ago
I thnk of MST3K whenever I hear this.
sonicsmx 6 months ago
Hearing this makes me think of Laurel and Hardy of all things....
PsTwoKnight 6 months ago
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Long live the memory of the veterans on both sides of the war, since the remaining 2 or 3 soldiers from the war probably won't last too much longer.
NatKingHarkinian 7 months ago 3
"Paddy wrote a letter
To his Irish Molly O',
Saying, "Should you not receive it,
Write and let me know!" LOL
andresrojas22 8 months ago 39
The writer of this song, Jack Judge, came from Oldbury in the Black Country area of the West Midlands a few miles south of where I live. There is now a building called Jack Judge House in Oldbury as well as a street named Judge Close in his honour.
Matt571 9 months ago
Just heard the melody of the chorus in the Peanuts movie 'Snoopy Come Home' and had always been curious about the song as a kid. It's good to finally hear the song in its entirety and know its significance.
rong7676 9 months ago
Tipperary is a county of S Republic Ireland, where are all these arguments coming from?
Uhateme100 9 months ago
the singer is John McCririck
tizzard1970 10 months ago
@tizzard1970 Nice stating the obvious
Uhateme100 9 months ago
ORCS IN SPACE
TheMoneyGruber 10 months ago 2
Back in the old Double Duce we used to sing this while we tinkered on our planes. Jolly good time I do say. To bad our best singer was shot down by some Hun Bastard.
DeanMelchionda 11 months ago
yay jingoistic propoganda!
goddessrin2 11 months ago
IRISH AND PROUD!!!
EddieDread 11 months ago
@EddieDread Cheers Paddy
LordWellington15 11 months ago
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shnugz786 11 months ago
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
rtch77 11 months ago
i heard this on Das Boot,
Stantzs 11 months ago
@Stantzs Me to
LordWellington15 11 months ago
The singer is Count John McCormack(He was a Papal Count). It was used as a British Army recruiting song in Ireland during the World War 1 and the rest as they say is history. In the First verse he sang "..everyone was gay..." in those days, gay had a different connation...however, these days the song is played at all military parades in the UK, Ireland and the USA. If you meet someone from Tipperary, inevitaby someone will remark 'It's a long way to Tipperary...." It's a tradition now,
liamthedream 11 months ago
Great song!
Greetings from Germany :)
TommyHatcher92 11 months ago
how many countries adopted this? i've heard a US and a russian version
Ninjadude2012 1 year ago
I know it's cold outside but the song gives goose-bumps!
H0llaZ1990 1 year ago
I like it when the crew on Das Boot sing this.
neilo86 1 year ago 2
this is an old ww1 song very good
merbenzgill 1 year ago
Wow, london was full of fruitcakes already in the twenties!
nallepuh6969 1 year ago
i dont really get the song can sum1 explain thiz 2 me?:(
tjnuhh96 1 year ago
@tjnuhh96 It doesn't really means anything but if you look it up on wikipedia you will find its origins. In case it is "Everyone was gay" that is confusing "gay" did not mean homosexual until the 1970's. Before then it just meant light hearted and happy.
freebeerfordworkers 1 year ago
@freebeerfordworkers It doesn't really mean anything? It's about an Irish soldier sent to fight for Britain in World War I and his homesickness. While in London his heart still remains with Ireland and his hometown of Tipperary.
ericjames85 1 year ago
@ericjames85 Complete nonsense - it was written 2 years before the war by Jack Judge a music hall singer from the Birmingham whose parents were Irish. He was bet 5/- ($1) he could not write a song in 24 hours & if you listen to some of the verses it implies the Irish are a bit stupid and today he would considered "racist".
freebeerfordworkers 1 year ago
@freebeerfordworkers
That might have been true when it was written, but it became a well-loved song of the 1st World War period, and I am sure that when soldiers sang it, or their families at home, they thought about the homesickness of the troops.
orlando098 1 year ago
@orlando098 I agree but people should not make political points out of songs as good ones are international and have a life of their own. An good example would be Lili Marlene which was a German song loved by both German & British soldiers. in WW2
freebeerfordworkers 1 year ago
@freebeerfordworkers
OK, to be honest I missed the political point. I thought ericjames was just saying the meaning was about soldiers feeling homesick. But I suppose he might have been making some point about Britain and Ireland
oliveranthonyrowland 1 year ago
freebeerfordworkers 1 year ago
@ericjames85 It was written BEFORE the First World War, and the Irishman in it is NOT a soldier, nor has he been sent to fight anywhere.
It's about a homesick Irishman in London, who writes to his girl at home, and asks his her to write back and let him know if she hasn't received his letter. His girl says, come home now or I'll marry someone else. I dare say it amused the British music-hall audiences no end - it fed their prejudiced idea of Paddy as a simpleton and a clown.
toscaire 1 year ago
Apparently I used to sing this in my pram xD
rachelseagroatt 1 year ago
I love his accent ! its like my dads (my dad is irish buh my mum is english) lol buh his aint as posh :D
DarcyAndTamara 1 year ago 2
@Toni 1708 I had no dig at Irish whatsoever. On the contrary, i think Irish position is similar to Serbian in some aspects. Of course, every national story is unique.
snmage 1 year ago
...for all those who died in WW1...the war to end all wars.....sad...
jdilln 1 year ago
The war to end all wars produced the peace to end all peace - the Treaty of Versailles, an Imperialist division of the world into the relative spheres of influence among the Imperialist preponderant powers, repudiating the very principle of the right to self determination and reneging the guarantees and promises made to China and the Arabs. A peace settlement deliberately designated with lofty terms on a superficial level as subterfuge to conceal the underlying cynical imperialist interests!
alien1tau9 1 year ago
@alien1tau9 That just about sums it up - 20 years later it all started again!
jonjamg 1 year ago
loves how people have a turned a perfectly happy nostalgic song into a chance to have an argument about all sorts of stuff that has nothing to do with the song, including the Balkans Conflict, the Holocaust, and different ethnicities in British Society.Seriously? :L
WhyOhWhyMusic 1 year ago 55
@WhyOhWhyMusic Godwin's law.
FFulmenTheFinnish 1 year ago
@WhyOhWhyMusic
The world is upside down,
up is down
down is up
and it is not going to change back..
it is really sad. I weep for my six year old.
TheIkkap 7 months ago
@WhyOhWhyMusic It's so annoying that people do that isn't it? It seems commonplace on YouTube for people to create arguments about religion and the like, why? What a fabulous song anyway and i'm in awe that you can upload these songs, I probably have the 'equipment' but would know where to start! So thanks.
LadyHarrington2k 7 months ago
@LadyHarrington2k Person A posts something person B disagrees with, person A & B then argue then person C, D & E come and watch throwing odd comments in,
PROkiller16 6 months ago
@WhyOhWhyMusic What you forget is that the war this song popularizes was, in essence, a "Third Balkan War," contributed to the rise of fascism and the Holocaust, and started on the eve of a major crisis between the Irish and the British.
You're about as ignorant as you claim they are.
ChaationBergin 4 months ago
@WhyOhWhyMusic
You could post twenty videos of Mr. Rogers neighborhood and they would still be having arguments about the holocaust and the balkans. Argument is the one thing youtube commenters strive for, because they don't have to look at the other person they are talking to in the eyes... just type words on the keyboard.
rephaim23 4 months ago 2
No, Count McCormack, no. You may be Irelands favourite tenor but you can not sing a song with "Britains never shall be"( 1.37) in the middle.
With apologies to Fast Show
tomtesticle 1 year ago
Soldier's verse:
That's the wrong way to tickle Mary,
That's the wrong way to kiss!
Don't you know that over here, lad,
They like it best like this!
Hooray pour le Francais!
Farewell, Angleterre!
We didn't know the way to tickle Mary,
But we learned how, over there!
yacawntmiss 1 year ago 2
@Willtap What's the benefit? You don't speak German!
yacawntmiss 1 year ago
Jack11anbar, Thank you SOO much for posting this. Please keep it on! Do you know anywhere I can get this version of the song?
Last year in Soc St. my teacher (who we messed with) had a power point and it glitched. So the whole class period while he was presenting WWI this song played through. After a while he got really annoyed and the song started to catch on. So the whole class began singing this. To this day we walk by him and sing this. I want to download it for old times. Haha
deano12301230 1 year ago
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Jack11anbar, Thank you SOO much for posting this. Please keep it on! Do you know anywhere I can get this version of the song?
Last year in Soc St. my teacher (who we messed with) had a power point and it glitched. So the whole class period while he was presenting WWI this song played through. After a while he got really annoyed and the song started to catch on. So the whole class began singing this. To this day we walk by him and sing this. I want to download it for old times. Haha. Thanks again
deano12301230 1 year ago
Jack11anbar, Thank you SOO much for posting this. Please keep it on! Do you know anywhere I can get this version of the song?
Last year in Soc St. my teacher (who we messed with) had a power point and it glitched. So the whole class period while he was presenting WWI this song played through. After a while he got really annoyed and the song started to catch on. So the whole class began singing this. To this day we walk by him and sing this. I want to download it for old times. Haha. Thanks again
deano12301230 1 year ago
@Willtap Well i think this song is more nostalgic than patriotic, they wanted to remember the good old days before the shitstorm of suffering decended on everyone. Its more of an escapeism song than a lot of the pro war propaganda floating about at the time.
EbsNhexz 1 year ago
cryptic wintermoon - bonegrinder 1916
valefrit 1 year ago
the music for this song was written using my grand mothers piano
seanoztaps 1 year ago
@seanoztaps let me know please, moore about that, WHO ?? when ?? wehre?? and it is possible know the lleter of this TRUELY WONDERFUL IRELAND SONG
BEST REGARDS FROM CHILE
donlilo3584 1 year ago
If it interests anyone, it was written by Jack Judge who hailed from Stalybridge in Cheshire.
cluelessingaza 1 year ago
:) This is one of my favorite John McCormack songs. I think McCormack was the one who made this song famous. What a gem from World War I.
31operafan 1 year ago
If they only knew what they were getting into when they marched off singing. Here's a quote that sums the war up well: "I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele"
Zintzieh 1 year ago
McCormack abu
LeonardARobert 1 year ago
My Great Granddad was a artillery field gunner. He got his leg blown off by an explosive shell whilst riding on one of the horses that pulled the guns. The only picture that I have of him is him sitting on an old triumph motorcycle. He looked so much like my Dad. :P
Tobskybobski1 1 year ago
@ england 1418- The country that bore the heaviest casualties WW1, Serbia, has much worse destiny than your homeland. Serbs were good enough to die fighting for the Entente cause and good enough to win the first Allied victories of the war, on Cer and Kolubara. However, when a new wave of German imperialism came in the 1990s, you stood aside and even supported their ally Croatia. Unlike Germans who supported Croatia wholeheartedly, you forgot and ridiculed your ally in both world wars- Serbia.
snmage 1 year ago
@snmage presumably the lack of support for Serbia in the 1990s was related to the genocide and ethnic cleansing carried out by the Serbian Armed Forces during the Balkans conflict... ring a bell? as far as I can tell, there is no difference between the Serbian Army and the Nazi SS, so what reason would we have for supporting the Serbs? This 'German Imperialism' is propaganda created so that Serbs can try and pretend innocence.. No progress will ever happen if Serbians cannot accept their part
SlydertheSpyder 1 year ago
@SlydertheSpyder No progress will ever happen if Serbians cannot accept their part in what was the the worst human rights abuse in European history since the holoaust
SlydertheSpyder 1 year ago
@SlydertheSpyder It sounds strange comparing genocide that took lives of at least 12 million people in concentration camps to civil war in which both sides had their warcrimes and their attrocities. Of course, you know aboujt Srebrenica, but you've never heard of Potochari crimes by Moslems over the Serbs. You know about alleged ethnic cleansing that was perpetrated by Serbs, but you've never heard of the fact that Croats killed over 2700 Serbs in Oluja military action,
snmage 1 year ago
@SlydertheSpyder ...during which 90% of Serbs had to leave their homes in Croatia, where they lived for centuries for good. Of course, you don't want to know the facts, because your country's policy can't be wrong. Brits are alway right and they always win? ;) Mentioning the SS, do you have any idea how many Serbian civilians died in nazi concentration camps in WWII? Over 500 000. Compare that to 3000 bodies found in Srebrenica. You , Brits, you invented the concentration camps, in Boer Wars.
snmage 1 year ago
@snmage how can you have s dig at the irish who are still fighting for freedom after so many years do you not realise that they have suffered at the british hand also
toni1708 1 year ago
My late Uncle fought in WW 1, He never talked about it. when asked, he would pause,then change the subject. He always kept busy, one day years ago, I found a recording of this song, I put it on his victrola record player, then I saw my Uncle, tears were flowing down his cheeks, I put the record back where I found it.
sillyg900 1 year ago 4
My Late Uncle fought in Europe in 1917-18, He never spoke about the war, When asked, He would pause for a moment and then change the subject. My Father told me that his brother was in the trenches and that was all he knew, When he came home from the war, he kept busy , I found an old recording when visiting my Uncles farm and played this song on his victorola, Then I seen my Uncle, tears were flowing down his cheeks, I put the record back.
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MrScubadriver 1 year ago
Im from tipperary!!
ROBBIEakaGOD 1 year ago
1:35 - 1:39 = A little bit of Rule Brittania, perhaps? :D
danishpride1 1 year ago 2
@danishpride1 Yep!
ephelduath606 1 year ago
Young white males going off in droves to kill each other just doesn't seem like something to "honor" or be proud of. Without the loss of the millions upon millions of white men who died in both of the wars, Europe and North America might have had a fighting chance against the non-white hordes who have infested them.
canadiankopite 1 year ago
@canadiankopite Completely agree, the politicians should have been more 'race aware' , should have valued the white lives that they threw away so carelessly.
'Young white males going off in droves to kill each other just doesn't seem like something to "honor" or be proud of. Without the loss of the millions upon millions of white men who died in both of the wars, Europe and North America might have had a fighting chance against the non-white hordes who have infested them.'
afewtube 1 year ago
@canadiankopite racist yank
SlydertheSpyder 1 year ago
Liza Minelli included this song in a triad of songs. It was beautifully presented in her HBO special...
memphistimboy 1 year ago
i just hear this song in the german movie " das boot"
tuslek 1 year ago
This song is so famous, because, The Irish bregaide of Men, sang this, while marching into the town of Bologne, France, And so it became the anthem of WWI
robbie4233334 1 year ago
now this is music that is actuially good.
spartan22897 1 year ago
Heard this recently on an old fairground ride. It silenced me immediately as it made me think of all the young men of many countries who fought in WW1 - whether they died, or lived on - and those who lost loved ones. My grandfather was badly gassed - he was only 19. To show his mother in Lincoln that the "enemy" had good men as well, he sent her a crucifix taken from a young German soldier who had been killed. That cross reminds me every day of their sacrifice. Let us never forget them.
Daybreak0500 1 year ago 75
@Daybreak0500 what's a crucifix? i'm European and don't speak that great English to understand what that is. Shame of your grandfather :( It's a shame WW1 never really got the attention that it actually deserves like Vietnam! But that's a other story :)
pongboy1100 9 months ago
@pongboy1100
A crucifix is a cross which includes a representation of Jesus. Search "Crucifix" on Wikipedia for more.
Ms4Caro 7 months ago
@Ms4Caro thanks buddy! but someone else already answerd that for me! thanks annyway :D
pongboy1100 7 months ago
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Ms4Caro 7 months ago
What a singer, love his Rose of Tralee
Bricriuhouse 1 year ago
And even german soldiers loved this beautiful song, like the brits and american soldiers loved the german song by Lilly Marleen. Isn't that funny in strange way? We fought each other, but we loved the songs of our enemies.
Best regards from germany.
Lintflas 1 year ago 4
@Lintflas Der Tipperery Song -Das Boot.
sundayliein4 1 year ago
LMFAO TICKLE MARY NICE.
DrunkenPiano 1 year ago
LMAO DA LAST VERSE LONG WAY TO TICKLE MARY
JustinBieberxfan 1 year ago
@JustinBieberxfan
Nah, the "field" version says "it's the wrong way to tickle Mary" ;-)
Briselance 1 year ago
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over9000christian 1 year ago
@okellydokelly
He was talking about England.
Northbound89 1 year ago
I think, yes.
They fought, you vote green
jk
poszolwon 1 year ago
Isn't he saying tally-ho? :P
H0llaZ1990 1 year ago
amanda my gran had the same but she knew us a reely reely miss her xxxx
mattym638 1 year ago
u guys shouldn't be arguing. u should be remembering the guys who died for us .
Drakerider2 1 year ago
I dont hav a sister shit head and if i did y would i need to save her from tht thing u call a dick
Soap588 1 year ago
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hectorfprez 1 year ago
@Soap588 #
Sorry: God save Mahatma Gandi, Zulu people,Roosvelt, Galtieri, Ben gurion and all who fight against british imperialism, V1 and V2 ruled. 1 giorno fa
hectorfprez 1 year ago
@hectorfprez every colony of every country that became free except maybe British india was in bad state and are now healing the wounds zimbabwe was very rich it killed almost al white intelligent people and is one of the poorest country's in the world british took care of those country's o i love dutch India and suriname go imperialism!
reinierchristiaan 1 year ago
@hectorfprez
V1 and V2 ? You mean the German WW2 rockets ?
Briselance 1 year ago
@Briselance Yes, I do.
hectorfprez 1 year ago
I'm beside myself every time I hear John McCormack sing this!
fortbruce 1 year ago
we sang this is chorus one year but no offense it was a better version
elvisjonas414 1 year ago
God Save The Queen And God Save Britain.
Soap588 1 year ago
@Soap588 And god save the fucking pussy of your sister.
hectorfprez 1 year ago
@hectorfprez lol
Carmex776 1 year ago
OH, SO NOSTALGIC...AND LOVELY!!!
solsonia2003 1 year ago 3
Fada Éire beo!
fafjaafh 2 years ago
This is the best version, IMHO.
ecnalubma696969 2 years ago 15
can anyone tell me what kinds of musical instruments had been used for making this song?
sidereal686 2 years ago
@sidereal686 Drums, trumpets, flutes, tubas, trombones, piccolos,
ecnalubma696969 2 years ago 2
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koborkutya 2 years ago 2
Tipperary was part of the British Empire...
God Save the Queen
12345678927269 2 years ago
from the IRA lol
TemujinMSM 2 years ago
God Save the Queen
dudemantwo 2 years ago
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she's to busy chocking on my dick
chelloveck84 2 years ago
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Pearldrummer55 2 years ago
@Pearldrummer55
Leicester Square is in London, which is part of England, which is BRITISH. Where did you go to school?
Trimturtle 2 years ago
Im Srry thats a typing error, I ment to say its not Irish.
Pearldrummer55 2 years ago
Tipp is in Ireland,is this a classic Irish song,or an immitation,pls let me know
kg02170 2 years ago
It was written by a man in Northwest England whose parents were from Ireland, probably Tipperary.
freebeerfordworkers 2 years ago 3
@freebeerfordworkers It was written by Jack Judge of OLDBURY west mids my later father knew him BLACK COUNTRY.
gf1001 1 year ago
Sorry he was Jack Judge and from Worcestershire his grandparents were from Tipperary - according to google anyway.
freebeerfordworkers 2 years ago
Lili Marlene was also a song shared by the British and the German forces in WW2
castlegrover 2 years ago