Willy McBride

[rdvqc]

Eric has written a sequel 30 years later called "Hallowed Ground" - have a hunt for it.

[mattshep29]

i hope u all died fast n n clean boys,,,,rip,,,matt

[garaapje]

yea sure, ww2 game uhu . . . .

[lrtmacca]

ha he said willy

[vanillabearno12]

Well said!

[corporal747]

Look. two hundred and 40 thousand Irishmen fought in the first war and that was just the irish regiments. This song is written by a Scot. And its not stated what country Willy Mc bride was from. It doesnt fucken Matter. The fact is the song is sung by scots and Irish alike in rememberance. I think that was the aim of the writter. If ye keep taking Shite about "whos song it is" Your missing the unity. Stop living in the past ye stupid uneducated fucks.

[Penanera]

:O Willy fought monsters?!!?!?! :O

[LawrenceBarclay]

war games, about a song rmembering war heroes?

some may find this very disrespectful

[Frankieireland]

i'm irish and can i just say, as a proud irishman, this is really funny

[JohnMcCash]

Great song!I heard someone sing this on the karaoke about 4 years ago and it took everyone,s attention,including mine (and I had never heard it before).I now sing it myself on here the way I thought it was sung,but since I,ve came on here I don,think I,ve heard 2 similar versions,check mine,under my name.

[mysonyps3]

And this is afterall a Scotsman's song w/him sitting alongside a forgotten Irish Lad's grave w/nary a bone in it!

When Bogle claimed the writing of it in Ireland he barely escaped w/em claiming The Fureys wrote it. Clearly the Pipes and Fife in the lyrics are derived from the Scots playing of "Flowers of the Forest"!

Remember, more than anything, this song is about the "War to End All Wars"! "The Forgotten War" repeated time n again through history & even today, in these games children play!

[KurzWebber]

Yeah, apparently he was hiking through France, on the border of Belgium, and it was getting kind of late, and no cars were coming, so he hopped over a wall to camp. Well, he found a nice patch of grass and set up tent, he then awoke in the morning in a graveyard, and found Willy McBride's grave and wrote is song at his tomb stone. If you notice, the lyrics are asking Willy questions, and indeed he did the same, the day he met poor Willy.

[mysonyps3]

MarkoFritzgig meant no disrespect in this. He brings awareness of how little we value human life in Real War & Games alike!

Exactly what Bogle emphasized in his songs on the fallen in a forgotten War. His view, was War was a futile endeavor, that leaves only loss in it's wake!

In War Lives drop like flies and leave us w/vague memories, grave stones & Lives wasted. Bogle's songs sing of this!

Killing Games played today, leave no time to care for Life, Death or Honour, just as in Real Life!

[dancefreeklovetosing]

you are so disrespectfull!

[Buzz011]

your such a twat for disrespecting this song and what it stands for with you playing a stupid game. I am disgusted.

[meservius]

that is not how its sang you twat and its just horibble to play that song with that crappy game i mean really im try`n to find th original by the Irish Rovers

Sincerly: Meservius

[AndrewDeLong]

To you the youtube user MarkoFritzgig who put this tripe on here: This is a song which is to be respected and not fu!@ed up with. Now I don't know if you made this video or just copied it from somewhere else, but either way it was done in extremely bad taste. My god man, try and have a little respect. See the bird, well do ya see it? You should cuz I'm holding it up to the screen aimed at you right now!

[BassAce111]

dont mock this song its serious...its not funny

[restlesswave]

irishboysalford, better check your history mate. there was no conscription on the island of ireland. 36st ulster were a volunteer division. 16th irish (johnny redmonds nationalist volunteers) and 10th irish was `regular`army where volunteers went all during the war. this song is not about an irish soldier but A SOLDIER. it just happens the irish took this to their hearts as we suffered as much as anybody-and didn`t talk about it.

[hetrodoxly]

Your talking a load of crap, The Irish don't talk about it? that's got to be the biggest joke going, the songs about any solder who died in the great war, Willie McBride just happens to rhyme with grave side.

[restlesswave]

if you know anything at all about irish history hetrodoxly -the unionists celebrated their part in the war and still do. the nationalists didn`t(until recently) as they came back from the trenches to a distinctly anti british climate in ireland after the easter rising. it was something to be forgotten quickly and not talked about. me? i think this attitude was criminal. it was even scrubbed out in school text books of the time. and i said this wasn`t about an irish soldier or can`t you read?

[hetrodoxly]

Maybe i can't read because i was born and raised in a pre "celtic" (1970s) Kerry, every ordinary working man in the British isles had a hard time, white Englishmen were bonded into slavery and sent to the west Indies to slave with the blacks, it's about time we got over ourselves,

But had they died by Pearse's side

Or fought with Valera true

Their graves we'd would keep where the Fenians sleep

'Neath the hills of the foggy dew

The Irish weren't the only one's there.

[restlesswave]

me i was brought up in the 70`s in pre celtic scotland-to irish parents that had to emigrate. i liked the country enough to come home when i was old enough-if your so bothered about all of this come back. and the choice of your song is apt being an anti `british army song` but you may at least get the lyrics right the second verse is-or fought with cathal brugha. and the point is if we don`t remember ourselves-nobody else gives a shit. me i know who i am you obviously have a problem re identity.

[hossie88]

the song is clearly about a young soldier that died in 1916 at the easter rising !!!duh!!!

[restlesswave]

hossie give you a couple of clues-france isn`t in dublin-and no gas or barbed wire were used in dublin and theres no countless white crosses in the sand in dublin or anywhere else in dublin for that matter oh and the lament `flowers of the forest` was virtually only played by scottish regiments. now away like a good lad and google `eric bogle` the man who wrote the song-it might help you understand it better. !!!DUH!!!

[hossie88]

hahahaha wow calm !!! and im not a lad im a girl !!!!! soooooorrrrrryyyyyy !!!!!!i got it wrong dont need to take it so seriously !!!!! its a brill song !!!!!! and im also irish so relax a bit stop getting worked up !!!!! i heard 1916 and thought it was about that !!!!

[restlesswave]

aye ok hossie! you just wouldn`t believe how many from this country get it wrong and can`t be told other wise! and it is a brill song-also check out-and the band played waltzing matilda-sung by liam clancy-another cracker by eric bogle.

[hossie88]

haha !!!! i only heard the song last year and thought WOW what a tune !!! im also 19 like lol !!!!!! il be checkin them out

[slayer310mike]

you dont really understand what this song is. i hope you are a teenager , because if your not you need to grow up.

[Rodgin88]

I can appreciate the idea, but yeah, kind of tasteless mate. And I concur with the poor editing. You could have made this alot easier to take and avoided some flak by making it follow the song more.

[irishpride26]

u compare a man's death to a stupid video game? disrespectful..

[irishboysalford]

this song is about an irish man conscripted to the british army like many others had no choice in the matter and was put on the front line to protect the british heros.

[hetrodoxly]

What a load of crap.

[padderuk]

i totaly agree it is total crap to put a video like this to accompany a song such as this,,,if this is respect for what those people did for us then all i can say god help us all, where would we be if not for brave that fought for us

[Sate12]

I seriously hope this was an atept at irony,to put a song about the waste of unessisary war with a game thats basically mindlessly kill everything in front of you

[Frank12391NL]

This is an anal assraping of a great song.

[panzertortoise]

it's not even edited to the video correctly... =/ it could be a kickass video if you knew how to cut it.

[fuckinscott]

wtf this song doesent go with the game at all

[BabyyEmilyy]

thats so disrespectful to those who fell in the first world war. you cant compare a war where people lost lives to some computer game! i mean fair enough, play the game but dont put a song like this over it and call yourself "willy mcbride" just wrong mate.

[brotherdevil]

its about a soldier in ww1 he says. no let me tell u wot the real meaning of the song is. its saying what were they really fighting for what did they die for, well hang on was it really worth it. but we still remember you. you are heroes and shall never be forgotten.

[icebro]

"Green Fields of France" by Dropkick Murphys.  This is a modified version, faster than the original. It is about a soldier who died during WW One

[buckfastvictim]

absolutly brill this is the best song ever it stops people in our country from fighting because people from both sides fought in WW1

[winch19904]

wait, can you tell me the history of this song, like who wrote it and where it origianated from?

thanks

[jacksawild]

Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle 1976. It has a few names: "Willie Mcbride", "The green fields of France" and "No Man's Land".

The 19 years old Ptv. William McBride is buried in Authuille British Cemetery, near Albert and Beaumont-Hamel, where the Inniskilling Fusilliers were deployed as part of the 29th Division.

[winch19904]

thanks a lot man, i really appreciate it, i love the song, but until now, it never had any meaning!

[jacksawild]

You're welcome. It is a great song with true meaning; unlike some of the stuff that litters our charts and airwaves these days.

[pat1219904]

haha i totaly agree! haha great song...

[scousepunk]

As far as i know, Eric Bogle was just the first one to actually record it and to make it famous. As far as me relatives toled me, the song was a folk song long time befor that.

[winch19904]

great song, gay song.

[colinnats]

nice blend of a contemporary video with a historic song...people must understand this!

[shaunAKAegghead]

is this dropkick murphys.. i tyring to download this song.. its amazing

[winch19904]

yes this is the drop kick murphy's...

[joniper85]

as someone who grew up with this song would like to say this is a great cover, but what you,ve done with the video is amazing, and really fits, can tell you,ve understood it

[gavroche67]

stupid game

[Cliodule]

A very inappropriate combination of music and video.

[oivia12]

I LOVE THIS SONG! But the video makes it suck.......

[TmoneyBallyhar]

very good version of the song pity bout the video

[MarkoFritzgig]

Can't argue with that.

[mossy121c]

klass song!

[Fionnstaines]

good song but whats the video.

[MarkoFritzgig]

It's a guy running through the Unreal Tournament, fighting for survival until he dies, overwhelmed by enemies.

[x84caveman84]

loce this version so much more full w. the paino