Perhaps we should question the wisdom of sending yound people to fight when the Idiots can no longer agree. A poor man never started a war. The song is very touching and so real, it actually hurts to see young lives lost.
Thank you,Madoleus ! thank you for this very moving song that brings tears ...
French, how not to have an immense gratitude to you, Irish, but English, Scots, Canadians, Americans, etc ... which are stepped in with us already in this first great world war of the twentieth century that m 'told my grandparents when I was a child.
this song always means alot to me and its not about politics or religion,just makes me remember alot of beautiful friends i lost from this horrible world.love you fureys xx
its a terrror the way we went ,dont get me wrong ,were all to quiet,people faught and died for our island ,look at what they done to gaddaffi ,they were dead rite to ,ireland should be the same we will all talk ,but then do notin ,its true doe
Whats important here is not the fighting in itself but the acceptance of the sacrifice that all soldiers make, it may not be physical, or in the mind, it may even be just the time they spend from their families, but all make some sort of sacrifice, no matter the nationlity.
At about 1 min 30 seconds in the 3 female images are more natural and beautiful than so many women today with cosmetically enhanced features and gallons of gaudy slap on. Not all women today of course but far to many. These video images are the more moving and truthful. Thank you.
@billyhunchback Well said! Too many ignorants think this song "sides" with the Allied forces of WW1... but it's not bound to any nation or faction, and that's what makes it so deep in my opinion!
Soldiers fighting for their country are not responsible for what politicians lie about, and lies from politicians comes all the time... from both side of a conflict!
It's about the bravery of man and the ineptitude of politicians, politics is awful and attracts the wrong kind of people, how can you trust someone who seeks power?
I Too dont like the people the 34, you are the lowest of the the low I hope you go to the lowest place in death for your dislike of this song it is no doubt one of the best anti war songs of all time true there maybe a better one with more poignant lyrics too but in my eyes and ears there isn't i have liked this song since the very time i heard it 36 years ago while i was in Ireland i served in the raoc for a while though not in any conflict i would still do for my country if i could so U 34 ***
@gotham23us I admit you probably right Im new to this and maybe ive got my words a little cross threaded but i do respect those that passed away in horrible ways its just i do happen like the song and its association with the sad loss off thousands and thousands of men not just on our side of the fence niether but hey eveyone has there own opinions sorry to upset you.
Eternal rest, grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
All war is folly brought on by unbalanced minds. But some of those wars are just wars...to free men and women from slavery, from concentration camps, from hunger and fear. When these things no longer exist, all war will be folly.
They shall grow old,as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them,nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and In the morning. We will remember them. 11.11.11.11. Wear your poppies with pride....................
I stopped wearing the poppy on the week before Remembrance Day, 11 Nov, 1918, the armistice ended the war called Great.
The original idea came from the Toronto military surgeon and poet John McCrae and was inspired by the death of his friend May 1915. "In Flanders fields the poppies blow/Between the crosses, row on row."
it's a propaganda poem, urging readers to "take up the quarrel with the foe".
Bill Fisk eventually understood this and turned against it. He was right.
On a day as today(11-11-2011), I weep,hearing this beautiful song ..the brave soldiers of the whole of Ireland ,protestants and catholics,giving their lives for my beloved Flanders..How can anybody have objection to this..and if you do..you are misinformed ..
An O'Sullivan from the West of Cork does. They fought as British Soldiers in WWI. The Irish People were yet to have their dignity restored in an Independent Republic. I absolutely condemn any Irish soldier who fought for the British Crown. It is delusional to think they gave their lives for the Flanders - half of them would not have heard of the place.
"So, although Remembrance Sunday is a military event and it's right to sound the bugle and display a martial bent: Just remember what it's all about and at the eleventh hour's release; Bow your head in silence and pray simply for - World Peace." Bless them all and pray God we never need discover the horrors they knew.
at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will rember them. lest we forget, my great great granda 9th bat Royal Irish Rifles, 36th Ulster Divison, 1st July 1916
Should we not also respect the Germans and Austrians who fell. The are dishonoured in their own country by the Merkel but they died bravely in the fighting.
@Wordsmith37 I agree. I am Scottish and hold a lot of respect for our soldiers past and present who sadly died while serving our country. However, I also firmly believe that every country has a right to honour their dead. Yes, there were some bad German/Austrians but there were also a lot of good men too, who were forced to fight. Men who did not want to fight and also just be at home with their families.
@iambeastLol I agree wholeheartedly. My Great-Grand Uncle fought in World War I, and was listed as Missing Presumed Dead in August 1917. He was 19. When I hear this song, I think about him and those who have perished fighting for their country before and after him. You have my respect for fighting for your country.
Green Fields of France is one of my favourite songs, especially around Remembrance Day. Thanks to all who have fought on behalf of others.
This still manages to bring tears to my eyes when I'm feeling especially sensitive, despite dozens of times of listening to it. Although my family and country remained virtually untouched by the great war it sears my heart to think of all those young lifes being cut short. My respect to all the men in the trenches, may they rest in peace.
@1azzaboy1 This song is about THE FUTILITY OF WAR and the lost of life IT IS an anti war song, yet ur governoment is sending YOUNG working class lads to slaughter again and sending them to slaughter the poorest of the poor in the world LISTEN TO THE LYRICS and there would be NO WAR!! FFS!! U idiots STILL DONT GET IT!!
GREAT SONG, In Proud and Loving Memory of my Great Grandfather Pte. Robert 'Bertie' Anderson 15290, 36th Ulster Div. 10th BTN. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who fell at the Somme, 1/7/1916, age 26.
Also his brother, Pte. Archibald 'Archie' Anderson 15293, 36th Ulster Div. 2 BTN. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who fell at Messine, 16/4/1918, age 22.
The third brother, James, was wounded at Ypres in 1917 and returned to Ulster badly injured & sadly died at a young age.
GREAT SONG, Finbar gives it what it deserves !! TRIBUTE to my great Grand father Sgt Henry Foster 36th Ulster Div 9th Batt RIR. Died 1st July 1916 aged 45 years, left a wife and 4 daughters. A tragic event which our family and others never recovered from, still remembered today and every Rememberance Sunday.
@jungle1969 Respect to your Great-Grandfather. At 45 years of age, he was a comparively 'old' man and had, we must assume, seen something of life. As we all know, so many of those who fell in that war - and in wars that were to come - were not given that chance. My thoughts will be with you this remembrance Sunday
This song always reminds me of the countless graves I have stood at over the years in France and Belguim and how those young men gave up their lives so that we can have freedom. But just how many of us are indebted to them? I for one always wear a poppy in their memory and grateful thanks. May their memory live forever.
The song is written about the sacrifice of all those who died in the Great War and not just Willie McBride. It was written by Eric Bogle, a scotsman. Willie McBride was a name he remembered after visiting war graves in France and Belgium and the name rhymed with his lyrics. The name could easily have been any one of millions of courageous soldiers that paid the ultimate price for all our futures. Almost one hundred years on we still owe this lost generation everything.
When the youth of today complain about what they haven't been given I think of Willy Mcbride. Visit the cemetaries and memorials and be thankfull we'll never be forced to face those things.
Im a scotsman & if anythings fucking ok to swear about its the needless death of millions of poor souls. You say they were brave, but many were terrified young kids. Fighting for a corrupt elite pulling strings like a puppeteer.
The thing is, these poor boys whatever nationality, were conscripted and had to go and fight or face prison or worse, maybe with hindsight, they should have just said no, then they may have lived....
@blackrosie04 "these poor boys whatever nationality, were conscripted" Up to a point. Many initially volunteered. The Scots, English and Welsh were later conscripted but it was not implemented through the entire UK. The Irish contingent remained volunteers. Saying that I imagine Bogle was writing about all the fallen. Not just one specific group or whether they were conscipts or not :-)
I am also a scotsman,an ex soldier and i simply cannot comprehend why anyone would listen to what I consider to be one of the finest songs ever written or sung about the great war....or any other war for that matter and use foul language or agression in any postings?
These boys that died in such huge numbers were not -war monkeys-but simply brave souls who died believing that their sacrifice would end all conflict forever.
@iambeastLol I agree that this song tugs at the heartstrings. I, my husband and son have stood at the graveside in many CWGC cemeteries over the past 7 years and we are going again in April 2012 and it always begs the question "Why?"
@iambeastLol cant believe that ppl are that crass to curse at the memory of the men and women who have given their lives to ensure that we would would have the freedoms that we enjoy!!!
Reading a few comments and people claiming to know or understand what the song is about, yet there are a more than a few who don't listen to it. It has no political undertone, not- anti war undertone, all it's about is the Author who rests besides a graveside and reads the inscription and starts to wonder how this man (kid) lived and died in an world the author can only imagine and pray he never lives to see. Just listen to to it, dont dissect it, it is to beautiful for that.
I love this song, i never new my grandad, who died in the second world war, in France, and he left 6 kids behind, as many men did, leave children, all i can says, is goodbless, anyone who has to go to war. x
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.
@thanxx afghanistan is not the somme. this cover version sums it up. a greedy song about a greedy war. the fureys hijacked wwI. i used to love this song.
beautiful song. in our republican ireland there seems no room for these heros, but they are more heros than the scum that blew up innocent people in the "troubles" . these people died for a reason.
@Sarskia1 you speak the truth as a scotsman it breaks my heart that you only hear of the scum & the true heroes are forgotten as one celt to another god bless
reodk@ " fucking A were still at war" are you happy that your country is still at war? ya only have to listen to the words of this song to get some inkling of what being at war means,
This is seriously making me cry. It's so sad and sweet. War, no matter how necessary, is awful. God bless all who have fought for their country; both the living and the dead.
did they relly belive that this war would end wars its true loock at the war in afanastan at the mo and i meen wat dose it relly come down to once the war is over ?
A very moving and sad song expressing the horrors of war, so many people killed on both sides and for what ? for some arsehole politicians that dont give a shit about anyone but them selves.
I cant understand some f the comments writen here and below. This is a beautiful song which leaves the listener to make up his own mind. It doesn't even offer a comment until the penultimate verse, (not that I'd expect the obviously mentally challenged whitesocks lad to understand what penultimate means) I'd suggest his attitude makes wars more likely
I cant understand some f the comments writen here and below. This is a beautiful song which leaves the listener to make up his own mind. It doesn't even offer a comment until the penultmate verse, (not that I'd expect the obviously mentally challenged whitesocks lad to understand what penultimate means) I'd suggest his attitude makes wars more likely
why does this have to turn into a political argument between gobshites? its a song about a boy who was killed almost 100 years ago...RIP all soldiers who died during the war
reading some of the comments here is so so depressing, such bitterness and hate. the original song was called "no man's land" and was written by that great scottish songwriter eric bogle. he later emigrated to australia and wrote that other great anti-ear song about the australians called "waltzing mathilda". the german singer/songwriter hannes wader does a german version called "es ist an der zeit". check it out and look at the name on the tombstone at the end of the song.
@brosnaboy Kind of agree with everything you say - though Bogle had already emigrated prior to writing this. Well certainly prior to recording it. As I understand it he left in his mid-20s and this song was recorded about a year afterwards. He was on a tour of Europe with that other great Scottish folkie Hamish Imlach. Imlach said that Bogle actually wrote the song in Germany sometime after he'd visited war cemetries in northern France.
you know when i read the comments on a song like this it makes me realise just how sick some peaple are. This song is about losing someone to a bullet when the war was totally futile. Show some respect and dont use this forum for a soapbox. Grow the fuck up..
@whitesocklad limey cunts like you are the reason the rest of the world hate the english you talk about a political system .what about the boer wars .it was that successful the nazis adopted your political system and called it belsen to name but 1 history is written by the winner dosnt mean its true. by the way wotton bassett is the only place in the world an irish man can clap the death of an english soldier and not get the fuck kicked out em .yeah your political system is fuckin dynamite
@shuguu42 "limey cunts like you are the reason the rest of the world hate the english" now who exactly are you speaking for? Well here's one Irish man who certainly doesn't hate the English as a matter of fact I love their language, music, sports, common sense etc, etc etc."limey" suggests that you are Australian but later on you talk about "an Irishman clapping at the death of an Englsih soldier"!!!!!!!! why on earth would anybody want to "clap" at the death of a fellow human being.ß WHY?
@brosnaboy "limey cunts" suggests that the writer is American. Australians would say "pommy cunts". Australians would never call the English "limeys". We call Americans "septics" (rhymings slang "septic tanks" - yanks}, New Zealanders are called "Kiwis" or (crudely) "sheep shaggers". The French - "Frogs", Irish - "Paddies", Germans - "Krauts", and the Belgians - "Boring".
Wonderful....but remember all you people that have a chip on your shoulder about the English.......the English people created the current political system in these Isles that we share in freedom and prosperity.....It rankles with me that all you Celtic people just go on and on about how the English were so awful to your ancestors....hey, the English won most of the time and then created an environment where freedom (eventually) would reign for everyone in the Isles, regardless of ethnicity
@whitesocklad You are correct that freedom does reign in these isles, but let us not forget that the English did not relinquish sovereignty in these countries voluntarily, and they won against basically poorly armed and disorganised opposition, and then they left because of world opinion turning against them, or because it served their interests to do so. Don't try and rewrite history
To the men of the 36th Ulster Division. July 1, 1916. The Royal Irish Fusiliers, The Royal Irish Rifles, and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. To Captain Eric Bell VC, and Rifleman Robert Quigg VC who both died that day along with scores of their brothers.
im a jock and i was a soldier, scottish, irish, english we are all fukkin war monkeys, slingin shit at each other in the middle of an american tea party. if you want to find folk worth fighting simply open your front door.
@TheMeleemonkey True words my friend and like you i was a soldier and a Irish man that remembers well the hiss of bullets coming in while the powers to be sit on there ass planing there next act of horror. To all on both sides be it German etc there is no respect in death its a word we the ones that lived use to make our self,s feel better about those that died and what have we learnt from there deaths fucking nothing we still wage war
@TheMeleemonkey respect to u my brother i was a soldier in 2 para and served in s/leonne iraq and afghanistan your fucking right my brother in arms i came home and what the fuck have i got !! fuck all just a load of fucking idiot plastic gangsters on my door step !! and a very small pension to live on !!
Respond to this video... respect to the jocks !! THE BLACK WATCH !! SERVED WITH YOU MY BROTHERS !!remember that old saying lions led by dokkeys what do u think ? respect to you my brother !! we are still the best !! british army number one bar none !!
there is a general misconception that as this song mentions "the great fallen in 1916" that it is a rebel song in commemoration of the Easter Rising of 1916, however it is in fact in commemoration of a soldier who joined the army, "the great fallen in 1916" in the first world war.
@drbobbeattie your talking pure bollox, my mum and dad are irish and me and me family were born in england so go fuck yourself ya prick. You seem to forget that there's more generations living across the sea's than there is in ireland.
Great song to all in Ireland the only country in the world were we treat each other as being part of the same family.
kkireland123 2 days ago
Perhaps we should question the wisdom of sending yound people to fight when the Idiots can no longer agree. A poor man never started a war. The song is very touching and so real, it actually hurts to see young lives lost.
MrSamcoulter 1 week ago
I want this video on my INNO 100 unit.
ickieestes12r 1 week ago
Preciosa cancion
Gearzen1 1 week ago
Thank you,Madoleus ! thank you for this very moving song that brings tears ...
French, how not to have an immense gratitude to you, Irish, but English, Scots, Canadians, Americans, etc ... which are stepped in with us already in this first great world war of the twentieth century that m 'told my grandparents when I was a child.
Yes! I warmly thank you!
Odette
0AZ909 1 week ago
this song always means alot to me and its not about politics or religion,just makes me remember alot of beautiful friends i lost from this horrible world.love you fureys xx
SuperSelfservice 2 weeks ago
lovely song love it
irishmaddog1 2 weeks ago
it is true they were lions led by lambs that died for a empire that lied to them like all wars it the poor that dies
MrGorebhoy 3 weeks ago
put all the emotions aside,this is a fuckin cracker!
yuup83 1 month ago
Gawn yersel Finbar!!!! Fuckin Beautifull.
GorbalsRebel 1 month ago
its a terrror the way we went ,dont get me wrong ,were all to quiet,people faught and died for our island ,look at what they done to gaddaffi ,they were dead rite to ,ireland should be the same we will all talk ,but then do notin ,its true doe
TheKilkennyhurler 1 month ago
A Battlefield 3 commercial on an anti-war song? That just might be the worst marketing I've ever seen.
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best anti war song ever, i saw the Fureys once live in Waterville, county Kerry Ireland, great band!!
zilstmenneke2b 1 month ago
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bets anti war song ever, i saw the Fureys once live in Waterville, county Kerry Ireland, great band!!
zilstmenneke2b 1 month ago
bets anti war song ever, i saw the Fureys once live in Waterville, county Kerry Ireland, great band!!
zilstmenneke2b 1 month ago
I love this song moved me to tears, it shows the senceless waste of any war, I pray one day there will be no more wars
xcfalcon1976 1 month ago
i love this song so beautiful makes me proud to be irish
magenta4747 1 month ago
@magenta4747 couldnt say it better meself
yuup83 1 month ago
Whats important here is not the fighting in itself but the acceptance of the sacrifice that all soldiers make, it may not be physical, or in the mind, it may even be just the time they spend from their families, but all make some sort of sacrifice, no matter the nationlity.
rappingturds 1 month ago
is this the original that the dropkick murphy's did their version from?
jha1974 1 month ago
Thank you, Pte Willie McBride 21406, 2nd Batt Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 36 (Ulster) Division. Buried Authuile Cemetery, Somme. For God and Ulster! We will remember them!
basscymro 1 month ago
@basscymro Mmmmmm hate to burst yer bubble , but he was an anzac.
TheRasputin2 1 month ago
@TheRasputin2 :Mmmmmmm hate to burst yer own bubble.Wrong song.The tune your thinking of is Gallipoli.
MrBillyhunchback 1 month ago
@MrBillyhunchback Also known as 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda'.
MrBillyhunchback 1 month ago
Can anyone upload "such things wern't made for her
A classic Fureys Tune
John18red 1 month ago
Been listening to this old tune for 30 years
The beauty of the lyrics and the purity of the music never fail to lift me
A beautiful and simple song that says it all
Listen to it live and you have lived a happy life
John18red 1 month ago
I think that the 34 people who have disliked this song should go and try fighting a war themselves. Let them learn some respect for the fallen.
BlackthornVG 1 month ago
its such a sad song and a great song
rauriway 1 month ago
At about 1 min 30 seconds in the 3 female images are more natural and beautiful than so many women today with cosmetically enhanced features and gallons of gaudy slap on. Not all women today of course but far to many. These video images are the more moving and truthful. Thank you.
auguritutto 1 month ago
y didnt a irish man write this song
coreycc1 2 months ago
eactly a month to day i came back from a trip to belgium with my school that trip changed my life and my perspective on the war
PINKBASEMENTRECORDSX 2 months ago
In the words of Vito Corleone,Our Family dont take orders and die from people we dont know.
joesoap81 2 months ago
@joesoap81 very ture
93OROURKE 2 months ago
this is a very sad but beautiful song.Respect to those who gave their lives.
xownxdoctor 2 months ago
So sad even for our German comrades.
billyhunchback 2 months ago
@billyhunchback Well said! Too many ignorants think this song "sides" with the Allied forces of WW1... but it's not bound to any nation or faction, and that's what makes it so deep in my opinion!
Soldiers fighting for their country are not responsible for what politicians lie about, and lies from politicians comes all the time... from both side of a conflict!
May all brave soldiers rest in peace!
ArildNL79 2 months ago 2
a song that always hits home with me . god bless you lads god bless you
fortunesboy 2 months ago
WEAR A WHITE POPPY! DON'T SUPPORT IMPERIALISM AND GENOCIDE! THE RICH SHOULD PAY FOR THE BASTARDS ANYWAY!
shinobi38 2 months ago
i don't understand the story
someone can explain me ? =)
espana00091 2 months ago
I just discovered this song, very sad and beautiful.
Respect for all these young and brave Irish soldiers.
A big thank you from France
We will never forget.
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Je découvre juste ce chant à la fois beau et triste.
Respect à tous ces valeureux jeunes soldats d'Irlande.
Un grand merci de France.
Nous n'oublierons jamais.
tiptopmoumoute 2 months ago
It's about the bravery of man and the ineptitude of politicians, politics is awful and attracts the wrong kind of people, how can you trust someone who seeks power?
MultiPogue 2 months ago
i truly love this song
buloo1234 2 months ago
I Too dont like the people the 34, you are the lowest of the the low I hope you go to the lowest place in death for your dislike of this song it is no doubt one of the best anti war songs of all time true there maybe a better one with more poignant lyrics too but in my eyes and ears there isn't i have liked this song since the very time i heard it 36 years ago while i was in Ireland i served in the raoc for a while though not in any conflict i would still do for my country if i could so U 34 ***
geoffsblues 2 months ago
@geoffsblues So someone has to say they like a particular song to prove they have respect for veterans and KIAs? What an incredible ass you are.
gotham23us 2 months ago
@gotham23us I admit you probably right Im new to this and maybe ive got my words a little cross threaded but i do respect those that passed away in horrible ways its just i do happen like the song and its association with the sad loss off thousands and thousands of men not just on our side of the fence niether but hey eveyone has there own opinions sorry to upset you.
geoffsblues 2 months ago
Great song with a powerful message...... but who will act on it.
RIP to those that have given their lives that we can listen to this.
JGN23able 2 months ago
I always get a lump in my throat when I hear this.
awdbugga 2 months ago
More Irish men died in wars all around the world than any other country! Show some respect for these men.
paddyontheball 2 months ago
A hymn for the common man..... never fails to give me goose pimples
Tri4Kat 2 months ago
Eternal rest, grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
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Lest we forget
gurpsguy 2 months ago
War means Death and destruction ! end oF!! body parts blowin 2 shit You live or die!! no fuckin what ever
rezlerken3 2 months ago
here here superbobbylennox
bno2345 2 months ago
Sums it up so well.
SuperBobbylennox 2 months ago
All war is folly brought on by unbalanced minds. But some of those wars are just wars...to free men and women from slavery, from concentration camps, from hunger and fear. When these things no longer exist, all war will be folly.
BillCimentEsq 2 months ago
''Anarchy not chaos'' good ending.
Tommyfazz 2 months ago
11.11.11 Always remembered <3
Verysuperinfamous 2 months ago
Lest We Forget...only we have and we continue to each and every day
beemilne 2 months ago
They shall grow old,as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them,nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and In the morning. We will remember them. 11.11.11.11. Wear your poppies with pride....................
nicky501000 2 months ago 2
I stopped wearing the poppy on the week before Remembrance Day, 11 Nov, 1918, the armistice ended the war called Great.
The original idea came from the Toronto military surgeon and poet John McCrae and was inspired by the death of his friend May 1915. "In Flanders fields the poppies blow/Between the crosses, row on row."
it's a propaganda poem, urging readers to "take up the quarrel with the foe".
Bill Fisk eventually understood this and turned against it. He was right.
Robert Fisk
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LadyofSacrament 2 months ago
On a day as today(11-11-2011), I weep,hearing this beautiful song ..the brave soldiers of the whole of Ireland ,protestants and catholics,giving their lives for my beloved Flanders..How can anybody have objection to this..and if you do..you are misinformed ..
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An O'Sullivan from the West of Cork does. They fought as British Soldiers in WWI. The Irish People were yet to have their dignity restored in an Independent Republic. I absolutely condemn any Irish soldier who fought for the British Crown. It is delusional to think they gave their lives for the Flanders - half of them would not have heard of the place.
MrMarkJohnOSullivan 2 months ago
@madoleus its actually about a scottish soldier
liamobrien06 2 weeks ago
All Gave Some, Some Gave All.
A beautiful,humbling song.
Lest we Forget
baggyanddillthedog 2 months ago 2
Always moves me to tears. R.I.P. those who have fallen including innocent civilians, in ALL conflicts throughout the world.
TheGromkath 2 months ago 5
Just sat an had a wee weep to myself at 2am listening to this wonderful tribute on this momentous day .
The power of music.
LEST WE FORGET!
jimtheskim 2 months ago 2
Never again
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Angeliccooke 2 months ago
to my great uncle who paid with hes life, i hope they beat the drum for you. if they missed you, ill beat it for you.
fulhamrocks 2 months ago 2
"So, although Remembrance Sunday is a military event and it's right to sound the bugle and display a martial bent: Just remember what it's all about and at the eleventh hour's release; Bow your head in silence and pray simply for - World Peace." Bless them all and pray God we never need discover the horrors they knew.
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at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will rember them. lest we forget, my great great granda 9th bat Royal Irish Rifles, 36th Ulster Divison, 1st July 1916
TheUlsterprotestant 2 months ago 3
Should we not also respect the Germans and Austrians who fell. The are dishonoured in their own country by the Merkel but they died bravely in the fighting.
Wordsmith37 2 months ago 2
@Wordsmith37 I agree. I am Scottish and hold a lot of respect for our soldiers past and present who sadly died while serving our country. However, I also firmly believe that every country has a right to honour their dead. Yes, there were some bad German/Austrians but there were also a lot of good men too, who were forced to fight. Men who did not want to fight and also just be at home with their families.
RunrigLovinJambo 2 months ago
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Why can't we all get along together?
Jennie. x.
Kittielips 2 months ago 3
we all have to remember our forefathers.
bbpom 2 months ago
@iambeastLol I agree wholeheartedly. My Great-Grand Uncle fought in World War I, and was listed as Missing Presumed Dead in August 1917. He was 19. When I hear this song, I think about him and those who have perished fighting for their country before and after him. You have my respect for fighting for your country.
Green Fields of France is one of my favourite songs, especially around Remembrance Day. Thanks to all who have fought on behalf of others.
ITZTorontoFan 2 months ago
RIP grampa mcpherson 5 badiluan scotish rifles
RFCxRApIdZz 2 months ago
This still manages to bring tears to my eyes when I'm feeling especially sensitive, despite dozens of times of listening to it. Although my family and country remained virtually untouched by the great war it sears my heart to think of all those young lifes being cut short. My respect to all the men in the trenches, may they rest in peace.
Silkkiturkki 2 months ago
how can you not respect these men who died at such a terrible time!!! it tugs at my heart!!! i will never forget what you men gave!
jlcoury23 2 months ago
the 32 people who have disliked this clearly have no respect for those who lost the life for us if you have respect like this
1azzaboy1 2 months ago 42
@1azzaboy1 well said that man goog on you and god bless ya
SuperBonoedge 2 months ago
@1azzaboy1 well said
cyclops953 2 months ago
@1azzaboy1 This song is about THE FUTILITY OF WAR and the lost of life IT IS an anti war song, yet ur governoment is sending YOUNG working class lads to slaughter again and sending them to slaughter the poorest of the poor in the world LISTEN TO THE LYRICS and there would be NO WAR!! FFS!! U idiots STILL DONT GET IT!!
phoenix1916 2 months ago
@phoenix1916 yes but notice how i have 34 like and you have none and have you shown your respect guess not !
1azzaboy1 2 months ago
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@1azzaboy1 lol is that what it comes down to, thumbs up on utube??? Get a life kid!!
phoenix1916 2 months ago
@1azzaboy1 lost life for us? you clearly do not understand the song.
vanpablo79 1 month ago
R.I.P all this young warrior...
LAzigen 2 months ago
GREAT SONG, In Proud and Loving Memory of my Great Grandfather Pte. Robert 'Bertie' Anderson 15290, 36th Ulster Div. 10th BTN. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who fell at the Somme, 1/7/1916, age 26.
Also his brother, Pte. Archibald 'Archie' Anderson 15293, 36th Ulster Div. 2 BTN. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who fell at Messine, 16/4/1918, age 22.
The third brother, James, was wounded at Ypres in 1917 and returned to Ulster badly injured & sadly died at a young age.
LEST WE FORGET.
oz1641 2 months ago
GREAT SONG, Finbar gives it what it deserves !! TRIBUTE to my great Grand father Sgt Henry Foster 36th Ulster Div 9th Batt RIR. Died 1st July 1916 aged 45 years, left a wife and 4 daughters. A tragic event which our family and others never recovered from, still remembered today and every Rememberance Sunday.
jungle1969 2 months ago 5
@jungle1969 Respect to your Great-Grandfather. At 45 years of age, he was a comparively 'old' man and had, we must assume, seen something of life. As we all know, so many of those who fell in that war - and in wars that were to come - were not given that chance. My thoughts will be with you this remembrance Sunday
Factnotfictionpeople 2 months ago
yesthis song is a wonderfull song and it is such a good song to listen to aswell...RIP the great warriers xxxxx
callyandmaddie 2 months ago
This song always reminds me of the countless graves I have stood at over the years in France and Belguim and how those young men gave up their lives so that we can have freedom. But just how many of us are indebted to them? I for one always wear a poppy in their memory and grateful thanks. May their memory live forever.
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Swiftyireland 2 months ago
The song is written about the sacrifice of all those who died in the Great War and not just Willie McBride. It was written by Eric Bogle, a scotsman. Willie McBride was a name he remembered after visiting war graves in France and Belgium and the name rhymed with his lyrics. The name could easily have been any one of millions of courageous soldiers that paid the ultimate price for all our futures. Almost one hundred years on we still owe this lost generation everything.
scaladale 3 months ago
When the youth of today complain about what they haven't been given I think of Willy Mcbride. Visit the cemetaries and memorials and be thankfull we'll never be forced to face those things.
ejay1965 3 months ago 2
@ejay1965 you are so right :)
indarkdecorum 2 months ago
The brave men of ireland we shall NEVER forget you
Bhamwmids 3 months ago
How ironic...and sad....
Most of the comments here are so full of anger/intolerance and very confrontational.
Listen to the lyrics.... "man's blind indifference to his fellow man"
Shouldn't we all be learning something from that :-)
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@69KST thanks for that true comment, my friend.
sunzsu 2 months ago
Im a scotsman & if anythings fucking ok to swear about its the needless death of millions of poor souls. You say they were brave, but many were terrified young kids. Fighting for a corrupt elite pulling strings like a puppeteer.
rickypop1000 3 months ago 3
Very heartening and yet very very heart breaking too in some sequences.
auguritutto 3 months ago
im so proud to be 100% irish and i hope everyone listening to these songs really do hear the words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
orlaod1 3 months ago 2
i remember been thought this song when i was 7 in school in the republic of ireland back in the early eighties
bigjohn697791 3 months ago
Thankyou so much...Always beautiful.....
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@Somme1916Somme to all the people of the world NO MORE WARS PLEASE XX
Ewartable 3 months ago
32 people have no sole ..
cathalkid123 3 months ago
and not lose their previous British Subject status. It is a bit complicated though.
gaconnochie 3 months ago
The thing is, these poor boys whatever nationality, were conscripted and had to go and fight or face prison or worse, maybe with hindsight, they should have just said no, then they may have lived....
blackrosie04 3 months ago
@blackrosie04 "these poor boys whatever nationality, were conscripted" Up to a point. Many initially volunteered. The Scots, English and Welsh were later conscripted but it was not implemented through the entire UK. The Irish contingent remained volunteers. Saying that I imagine Bogle was writing about all the fallen. Not just one specific group or whether they were conscipts or not :-)
gaconnochie 3 months ago
I am also a scotsman,an ex soldier and i simply cannot comprehend why anyone would listen to what I consider to be one of the finest songs ever written or sung about the great war....or any other war for that matter and use foul language or agression in any postings?
These boys that died in such huge numbers were not -war monkeys-but simply brave souls who died believing that their sacrifice would end all conflict forever.
Such a waste.
RIP THE FALLEN
LEST WE FORGET
iambeastLol 3 months ago 79
@iambeastLol Absolutely well said my man. I take my hat off to you. My thoughts exactly.
MrChrisastin 3 months ago
@iambeastLol I agree that this song tugs at the heartstrings. I, my husband and son have stood at the graveside in many CWGC cemeteries over the past 7 years and we are going again in April 2012 and it always begs the question "Why?"
irvineeileen 2 months ago
@iambeastLol I agree, this song has touched me so much to the depth of my soul, well done and your opinion is so very heard ! :)
indarkdecorum 2 months ago
@iambeastLol so well said my freind
cyclops953 2 months ago
@iambeastLol I agree with you 100%
Factnotfictionpeople 2 months ago
@iambeastLol so true R.I.P. to all are fallen hero's LEST WE FORGET.
michael1963ism 2 months ago
@iambeastLol We will remember them::-(
Ranger978 2 months ago
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@iambeastLol We will remember them::-(
Ranger978 2 months ago
@iambeastLol cant believe that ppl are that crass to curse at the memory of the men and women who have given their lives to ensure that we would would have the freedoms that we enjoy!!!
colleenmarieh1 2 months ago
@iambeastLol Well said mate. Gone but never forgotten.
814DAN418 2 months ago
Beautiful!!!
solja19k 3 months ago
Brits and Anzacs, cousins across the sea. United forever!
ashfordwasp 3 months ago
Reading a few comments and people claiming to know or understand what the song is about, yet there are a more than a few who don't listen to it. It has no political undertone, not- anti war undertone, all it's about is the Author who rests besides a graveside and reads the inscription and starts to wonder how this man (kid) lived and died in an world the author can only imagine and pray he never lives to see. Just listen to to it, dont dissect it, it is to beautiful for that.
Becs1683 3 months ago
@Becs1683 wel said
alanblufc 3 months ago
I love this song, i never new my grandad, who died in the second world war, in France, and he left 6 kids behind, as many men did, leave children, all i can says, is goodbless, anyone who has to go to war. x
goldbomb123 4 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.
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This is always a beauty...Thanks to The Brilliant Fureys xx
Somme1916Somme 4 months ago
someone needs to do an Afghanistan version of this for the lads.
halfway through its screaming out for the words Afghanistan to be put in.
around 3:14
thanxx 4 months ago
@thanxx afghanistan is not the somme. this cover version sums it up. a greedy song about a greedy war. the fureys hijacked wwI. i used to love this song.
bipedalame 4 months ago
beautiful song. in our republican ireland there seems no room for these heros, but they are more heros than the scum that blew up innocent people in the "troubles" . these people died for a reason.
Sarskia1 4 months ago
@Sarskia1 you speak the truth as a scotsman it breaks my heart that you only hear of the scum & the true heroes are forgotten as one celt to another god bless
sirmobil 3 months ago
reodk@ " fucking A were still at war" are you happy that your country is still at war? ya only have to listen to the words of this song to get some inkling of what being at war means,
Peace
MrJoeybongos 4 months ago
This song makes me cry everytime.
ravenclawseekergirl 4 months ago
This is seriously making me cry. It's so sad and sweet. War, no matter how necessary, is awful. God bless all who have fought for their country; both the living and the dead.
wolfjackle 4 months ago
@wolfjackle Beautiful isn't it. Makes me think of our lads inAfghan & how frightened they must be sometimes..
uriah1944 4 months ago
@uriah1944 Makes me rather think how frightened the people of Afghanistan must be sometimes...
munnimann 4 months ago
did they relly belive that this war would end wars its true loock at the war in afanastan at the mo and i meen wat dose it relly come down to once the war is over ?
chloefreeman13 4 months ago
Yea drop kick Murphys 1 is gay o_O
EPICkills00 4 months ago
I love this song better than the Drop kick Murphys one,
Fucken A we're still at war? dude....
reodk 4 months ago
A very moving and sad song expressing the horrors of war, so many people killed on both sides and for what ? for some arsehole politicians that dont give a shit about anyone but them selves.
Sadly it still goes on today.
eejwelshtaff 4 months ago 2
rip wullie mcbride ..for god n ulster
fightagainsthomerule 4 months ago
I cant understand some f the comments writen here and below. This is a beautiful song which leaves the listener to make up his own mind. It doesn't even offer a comment until the penultimate verse, (not that I'd expect the obviously mentally challenged whitesocks lad to understand what penultimate means) I'd suggest his attitude makes wars more likely
h0tbox600 4 months ago
I cant understand some f the comments writen here and below. This is a beautiful song which leaves the listener to make up his own mind. It doesn't even offer a comment until the penultmate verse, (not that I'd expect the obviously mentally challenged whitesocks lad to understand what penultimate means) I'd suggest his attitude makes wars more likely
h0tbox600 4 months ago
My first time hearing this song, and the chorus makes me cry :P
hermioneGH 4 months ago
@hermioneGH Me too, mate.
hictecnic 4 months ago
why does this have to turn into a political argument between gobshites? its a song about a boy who was killed almost 100 years ago...RIP all soldiers who died during the war
MrSean638 4 months ago 2
reading some of the comments here is so so depressing, such bitterness and hate. the original song was called "no man's land" and was written by that great scottish songwriter eric bogle. he later emigrated to australia and wrote that other great anti-ear song about the australians called "waltzing mathilda". the german singer/songwriter hannes wader does a german version called "es ist an der zeit". check it out and look at the name on the tombstone at the end of the song.
brosnaboy 4 months ago
@brosnaboy Kind of agree with everything you say - though Bogle had already emigrated prior to writing this. Well certainly prior to recording it. As I understand it he left in his mid-20s and this song was recorded about a year afterwards. He was on a tour of Europe with that other great Scottish folkie Hamish Imlach. Imlach said that Bogle actually wrote the song in Germany sometime after he'd visited war cemetries in northern France.
gaconnochie 4 months ago
you know when i read the comments on a song like this it makes me realise just how sick some peaple are. This song is about losing someone to a bullet when the war was totally futile. Show some respect and dont use this forum for a soapbox. Grow the fuck up..
MrRainjunky 4 months ago
Really beautiful tribute, and such a contemporarily valid as well. Thank you for such a good job with this!
pattywolford 4 months ago
@whitesocklad limey cunts like you are the reason the rest of the world hate the english you talk about a political system .what about the boer wars .it was that successful the nazis adopted your political system and called it belsen to name but 1 history is written by the winner dosnt mean its true. by the way wotton bassett is the only place in the world an irish man can clap the death of an english soldier and not get the fuck kicked out em .yeah your political system is fuckin dynamite
shuguu42 4 months ago
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PUMPERNICKEL4 4 months ago
@shuguu42 "limey cunts like you are the reason the rest of the world hate the english" now who exactly are you speaking for? Well here's one Irish man who certainly doesn't hate the English as a matter of fact I love their language, music, sports, common sense etc, etc etc."limey" suggests that you are Australian but later on you talk about "an Irishman clapping at the death of an Englsih soldier"!!!!!!!! why on earth would anybody want to "clap" at the death of a fellow human being.ß WHY?
brosnaboy 4 months ago
@brosnaboy well said lad:)
thanxx 4 months ago
@brosnaboy "limey cunts" suggests that the writer is American. Australians would say "pommy cunts". Australians would never call the English "limeys". We call Americans "septics" (rhymings slang "septic tanks" - yanks}, New Zealanders are called "Kiwis" or (crudely) "sheep shaggers". The French - "Frogs", Irish - "Paddies", Germans - "Krauts", and the Belgians - "Boring".
timhately09 3 months ago
Just reading the posts saying how "Irish" this song is... Written by a Scottish-Australian...
allanmacd1980 4 months ago
Wonderful....but remember all you people that have a chip on your shoulder about the English.......the English people created the current political system in these Isles that we share in freedom and prosperity.....It rankles with me that all you Celtic people just go on and on about how the English were so awful to your ancestors....hey, the English won most of the time and then created an environment where freedom (eventually) would reign for everyone in the Isles, regardless of ethnicity
whitesocklad 4 months ago
@whitesocklad You are correct that freedom does reign in these isles, but let us not forget that the English did not relinquish sovereignty in these countries voluntarily, and they won against basically poorly armed and disorganised opposition, and then they left because of world opinion turning against them, or because it served their interests to do so. Don't try and rewrite history
timhately09 3 months ago
makes me truly proud to be irish
GALAXYDMARIA22 4 months ago
To the men of the 36th Ulster Division. July 1, 1916. The Royal Irish Fusiliers, The Royal Irish Rifles, and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. To Captain Eric Bell VC, and Rifleman Robert Quigg VC who both died that day along with scores of their brothers.
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ur full of shit mucker!!
sineade36 4 months ago
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2008Sameoldfitup 4 months ago
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The Fureys do a good job, but i prefer the original.
hetrodoxly 5 months ago
im a jock and i was a soldier, scottish, irish, english we are all fukkin war monkeys, slingin shit at each other in the middle of an american tea party. if you want to find folk worth fighting simply open your front door.
TheMeleemonkey 5 months ago 18
@TheMeleemonkey True words my friend and like you i was a soldier and a Irish man that remembers well the hiss of bullets coming in while the powers to be sit on there ass planing there next act of horror. To all on both sides be it German etc there is no respect in death its a word we the ones that lived use to make our self,s feel better about those that died and what have we learnt from there deaths fucking nothing we still wage war
storchnuts 3 months ago
@TheMeleemonkey respect to u my brother i was a soldier in 2 para and served in s/leonne iraq and afghanistan your fucking right my brother in arms i came home and what the fuck have i got !! fuck all just a load of fucking idiot plastic gangsters on my door step !! and a very small pension to live on !!
bristolcityifcation 3 months ago
Respond to this video... respect to the jocks !! THE BLACK WATCH !! SERVED WITH YOU MY BROTHERS !!remember that old saying lions led by dokkeys what do u think ? respect to you my brother !! we are still the best !! british army number one bar none !!
bristolcityifcation 3 months ago
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Why?
hetrodoxly 5 months ago
there is a general misconception that as this song mentions "the great fallen in 1916" that it is a rebel song in commemoration of the Easter Rising of 1916, however it is in fact in commemoration of a soldier who joined the army, "the great fallen in 1916" in the first world war.
sconlon538 5 months ago
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I was told this is about an Australian!
I was told this is about an Irishman!
I was told this is about an American!
I was told this is about a Canadian!
I was told this is about a Scotsman!
ALL of the above is TRUE!
556Smiley 5 months ago
Scottish, Irsish, who cares. At least we are not English ;o)
drbobbeattie 5 months ago
@drbobbeattie your talking pure bollox, my mum and dad are irish and me and me family were born in england so go fuck yourself ya prick. You seem to forget that there's more generations living across the sea's than there is in ireland.
pufpaddy 5 months ago 2
@pufpaddy Man you are one angry Englishman.
drbobbeattie 4 months ago